| MI deployments 1/10/11 lots of new areas.... As you can see Frontier been very busy in MI.......
Almont
Baroda, Barryton, Bridgeman, Brown City
Capac, Columbiaville
Davison,
Hillman, Houghton, Hudson
Imlay City
Jeddo
Lake View, Linden
Maple Rapids, Memphis, Metamora, Middleton, Mio, Morenci
North Beach
Onaway, Otisville
Pompei, Prudenville,
Rankin, Remus, Richmond, Riverdale, Rogers City
Six Lakes, Smiths Creek, Swartz Creek
Vestaburg
Yale
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bcsman
join:2010-09-07
Capac, MI | Yep gonna sign up in a couple days in one of the new areas. Wish me luck!! |
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| reply to thorataz
Boy!
Those must be some little hole in the wall towns? Lived in MI most of my life and haven't heard of hardly any of those places!! 
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bcsman
join:2010-09-07
Capac, MI | Yep, many are in the middle of the thumb, our village is around 2,000. And I live a couple miles outside the village so surprised I even qualify but have verified online and through telephone contact. |
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slimtim
join:2002-12-12
Coldwater, MI | Gotta hand it to Frontier, they sure are ramping up the DSL Deployments.
It sure shows you what Verizon wasn't doing for those areas....
Now if I could get them to add some more Remote DSLAM's (hint hint ..around my area would be nice 
-TimJ |
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| reply to cork1958
Yeah, Fruitport is where it is happening.
As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 1,124. (»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitport,_MI) |
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kujars
join:2005-05-21
French Creek, WV | reply to thorataz
Gratz to you guys in MI. I wish there was more on the WV deployments here though. We are kinda left in the dark till the last min |
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| I suppose this is all archaic equipment and 3mb x 768 maximum speeds? And 99% of the people who purchase this 'up to' package will really see a peak speed of 2mb x 400kbps which will fall to 200kbps x 10kbps during prime time 8pm -11pm?
How about a real broadband option. |
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kujars you are right about being left in the dark ! Frontier is to worried about taking care of the cities and larger towns around here! I am going to cancel my land line and use my cell and I am using the Rev A for internet and Verizon will be deploying the LTE soon and then I wont need to have any use for frontier!! |
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bcsman
join:2010-09-07
Capac, MI | reply to SlowSpeed
Wow, might seem trivial to you but if you're used to dialup speeds the above quoted speeds will seem pretty good to most of us!! Yes fiber, cable, and other "real" broadband options would be grand, but as it stands whatever Frontier is deploying is good news to us hicks....sure beats what Verizon provided for us---NOTHING.. |
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| reply to DaSham58
Frontier is busting ass here in Jackson County WV, they are literally everywhere. From what one of the reps on the phone said is that just about all of this county will have DSL by June this year. What sucks is my brother lives 10+ miles from Ripley in the middle of no where and he is having it installed today, while i live 4 miles from town and am stuck with a crappy WISP until April. |
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| At least you do have a date! We haven't herd anything here in Putnam county what is bad is I have Frontier DSL 1 mile and Suddenlink cable 1 mile from where I live and neither one will come the last mile and there is over 300 family's in my neighborhood! Suddenlink told us it would take $40.000 to run the extra mile and Frontier act like they don't want to be bothered with it. Like I said I am waiting for the Verizon LTE hopefully not to long! |
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| reply to thorataz
Can any new customers in these new areas (particularly northern MI "tip-of-the-mit" towns) tell me how the service is? Currently I'm stuck paying $60/month for 1Mb cable modem that slows to half that in the evening and has a phantom "acceptable usage" cap that has gotten me harassment from the ISP twice already (though they won't actually tell me what the cap is or give me any way to track my usage). It's a horrible situation and Frontier looks like a huge improvement on paper. But I've been reading horror stories all over the internet about Frontier's own download caps, slow downs, and generally poor service, so I'm hesitant to make the jump and find that I'm just going from bad to worse. Any thoughts? |
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| I have it in Vesteburg Michigan. It's absolutely atrocious.. it literally slows to a 100kbps x200kbps (yes the uploads are faster than the downloads most of the time) after 4-5pm every day. Paying for a 3mb x 768 package.
All of my neighbors with it are also experience the same issues, it's completely oversold. They're trying to sell two T1's bonded to hundreds of people.
Frontier is terrible. |
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1 edit | reply to thorataz
i live a mile outside imlay city and i still can't get it. lame
edit: i just put in my aunt's number who lives right in town and the fontier site said she didn't qualify for internet so maybe they just havent updated the site yet
i am really really hoping that i can get dsl. being stuck on satellite internet i will take any dsl package that they can offer me |
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| reply to thorataz
How much upstream bandwidth does Frontier have out of those areas? Minimum GbE? |
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How much bandwidth in rural areas if Frontier deploying their new DSLAMs into the core internet peering IX'es of ORD, MKE, MSN, AZO, GRR, LAN, DTW, in MI? I assume the U.P. the bandwidth is going through Wisconsin and the north is back-hauled down to Grand Rapids or Saginaw. |
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bcsman
join:2010-09-07
Capac, MI | reply to chances14
said by chances14:i live a mile outside imlay city and i still can't get it. lame
edit: i just put in my aunt's number who lives right in town and the fontier site said she didn't qualify for internet so maybe they just havent updated the site yet
i am really really hoping that i can get dsl. being stuck on satellite internet i will take any dsl package that they can offer me
Just got mine installed last week, 3 miles northwest of Capac. Working nicely here so far, just keeping my fingers crossed. Was informed by a tech we saw Imlay City was having some problems and would be a little longer before turning on. I would also call Frontier CS and find out if you qualify from them. Don't always trust the internet info they post.. |
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| said by bcsman:said by chances14:i live a mile outside imlay city and i still can't get it. lame
edit: i just put in my aunt's number who lives right in town and the fontier site said she didn't qualify for internet so maybe they just havent updated the site yet
i am really really hoping that i can get dsl. being stuck on satellite internet i will take any dsl package that they can offer me
Just got mine installed last week, 3 miles northwest of Capac. Working nicely here so far, just keeping my fingers crossed. Was informed by a tech we saw Imlay City was having some problems and would be a little longer before turning on. I would also call Frontier CS and find out if you qualify from them. Don't always trust the internet info they post.. well that would make sense as to why my aunt, who lives right in downtown imlay city can't get it and yea i did call cs and they said it wasn't available.
just have to cross my fingers and wait. i have been waiting for a real internet connection to be available at my house ever since the internet went main stream |
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| reply to thorataz
Anyone know if they are moving into Almont Township, or is this just the village limits? |
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