 Review by koolman2 
UPDATED: 141 days ago
member for 5.8 years, 3292 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 Anchorage,Anchorage,AK
 Contract price not specified.
 about 3 days
 "good ping, good throughput (10 Mbps) , reliable"
 "upload is slower than I'd like, but I'm not complaining"
 "GCI is worth it."
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We ordered on Feb. 1, 2005, and were installed during the afternoon of Feb. 3, so I guess it was actually two days. We originally ordered the Ultimate Broadband Package, but have since upgraded services. We currently have:
10 Mbps / 1Mbps with unlimited transfer
Basic cable (channels 2-17, CSPAN 1,2)
Phone service with up to 13 features
Cell phone service, 1400 Nationwide minutes and three partner lines
Long distance w/ 150 free out-of-state minutes, 10¢/min after 150
The cost of the internet on top of everything else is $99.99 (unbundled). I'm going to leave it at that due to the difficulty of unbundling the prices.
The install went great- the person that came to setup the cable (we haven't had CATV installed in this house for about seven years) went out to connect the cable to the house, while I connected the cable modem. After the cable internet was activated, I was surfing 8-10 times faster than with my old DSL with ACS (now about 40 times due to recent upgrades, as we were originally at 2 Mbps, then 5, then 7, and now 10 with unlimited transfer, while ACS was 320 kbps [256 after overhead, whereas cable modem doesn't have overhead because the modem syncs at the maximum rate and caps the bandwidth, unlike DSL which has a physical limit due to sync rate of the line]).
The company says that I have 8 dynamic IP addresses to use, but in my experience they tend to be static. I can keep an address for months at a time. Needless to say, I really don't mind at all! The addresses are DHCP-assigned.
Overall, I was a bit nervous switching from all-ACS to all-GCI, but am now happy I did so. We now have basic cable, 40x the speed of our old internet, and the same phone features as we did on ACS.
Followup comments:  
Adonjay
@uaf.edu | 10 Gb IIRC you can go to 10.99 Gb in a month and they won't charge overage because you have to go 1 Gb over to get charged. | |
| otso32
join:2006-06-22
Anchorage, AK
| 10GB = 10,240 MB @ $0.05/MB Overage Actually, GCI started recouping lost revenue from those taking advantage of the near-11GB limit. They are now charging per-megabyte for overage, and their usage pages lag by a couple of days. Even tech support can't give more-precise answers because they use the same usage pages! But half a penny per meg comes out to about $5.12 per gig, which isn't much more than what they used to [not] charge a couple years ago ($4.99/GB). Of course, no complaints to those on Ultimate Xtreme with the Ultimate Package - unlimited downloads! | |
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