Re: missed appt in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r16925913 en Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:05:21 EDT Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:05:21 EDT Re: missed appt http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16930256 91439306 : My Charter experience for the few years that I had to put up with them, varied from fair when it was working, to miserable when there was an outage.
And outages were frequent. Often Wed/Thurs for 6 hours each week, there would be unannounced 'maintenance' outages.
The straw that broke the camel's back was a series of two outages back to back, in which the earliest date for a truck roll was 5 days out. After waiting five days to get my service back on, a few hours later it went out again. That's when I called SBC and have not looked back since.
Charter was slow, always providing the bare minimum speeds, way behind competitors in other towns, and they had the gaul to restrict what you used your connection for. And they charged about 2.5 times what I now pay SBC for a faster connection with no restrictions.
I can still recall the day that Charter was hooked up to my house... 11 hours later, they had the mutha' of all outages--they claimed they were moving their servers across the street to a new building. It was not a good start of a business relationship, and it had been rocky ever since.
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said by ptrowski See Profile :

(one where the tech just decided to go home for the day, the other they ran out of boxes, yeah right).

Horrible service...
You would be suprised among other things how real an occourance this apperantly is with Charter.
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"Sir SIR! We don't use DHCP servers. We only use IBM & Microsoft servers." From there my call to tech support went steadily downhill.

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said by 2kmaro See Profile :

Besides drowning, death at the burning stake, and being drawn and quartered, one of my great fears in life has been moving to an area where the only broadband offered was from Charter.

Just an observation from about 6 yrs of watching Charter related posts here at DSLR/BBR/DSLR. I could have misinterpreted things, I suppose.
So you're saying their are worse things then death? :D
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"Sir SIR! We don't use DHCP servers. We only use IBM & Microsoft servers." From there my call to tech support went steadily downhill.

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said by 2kmaro See Profile :

Besides drowning, death at the burning stake, and being drawn and quartered, one of my great fears in life has been moving to an area where the only broadband offered was from Charter.

Just an observation from about 6 yrs of watching Charter related posts here at DSLR/BBR/DSLR. I could have misinterpreted things, I suppose.
Well, I can say my service has been mostly reliable for the time I have been with Charter. But when you do have a problem, none of the internal departments are able to handle it satisfactorily. Billing thinks everyone should just send them more money, it seems that the support people's primary form of transportation to work has four legs and humps and they could not diagnose their way out of a room with an open door and the techs think they can show up when they want and do as they wish with your valuable time while waiting ALL DAY for them to show up.

So, 2kmaro See Profile, your fears are dead accurate and you have misinterpreted nothing! :huh:

Mike
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I went through the exact same thing trying to set up service in Texas around 2000. 2 missed appointments (one where the tech just decided to go home for the day, the other they ran out of boxes, yeah right).

Horrible service...
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Just an observation from about 6 yrs of watching Charter related posts here at DSLR/BBR/DSLR. I could have misinterpreted things, I suppose.
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