Internet Service Providers - Tyler County -

Well, tickle me pink. Wick area in Tyler County finally got Frontier high speed DSL internet service. This is the biggest news to hit the Wick area since God knows when. Started out here on dial-up, moved on to Hughesnet & now getting DSL. This may mean nothing to the city folk on here but huge relief for us country folk. lol

i still got crappy dial up here in doddridge co
am 3 miles from hi speed coustomer but they wont run line up my ''holler''
several of us will hook up if ever run new line

The DSL is awesome! Couldn't live without it now that we finally got it.

Love the new DSL in the Wick area. Way faster and more dependable than any other internet available in Wick.

Frontier's DSL, the only available broadband to many of us, has recently been having all kinds of slowdowns. Has anyone noticed that we only get about 1/3 of the speed we pay for during the evening hours? Have you had complete area outages for a few hours? When it's working... it's great but it just isn't working 100% all the time.

My Frontier DSL has been working fine with no slow down in speed at any time of the day. I work from home 3 days out of 5 and am on the internet at least 12 hours per day with no issues yet.

was promised that i was soon to be hooked up to frontier hi speed at the frontier meeting at the doddridge county park,nov 3
they then suddenly decided few days later that the plone line up my holler not good enough to carry hi speed, and frontier no nonger returning my calls
thanks a lot, chip van ellburg, district head dude

lemon wrote:

was promised that i was soon to be hooked up to frontier hi speed at the frontier meeting at the doddridge county park,nov 3
they then suddenly decided few days later that the plone line up my holler not good enough to carry hi speed, and frontier no nonger returning my calls
thanks a lot, chip van ellburg, district head dude

Up the holler where I live in Tyler County we have the new fiber optic lines run but my home is still hooked up through old telephone lines and the DSL was installed with no problems. There is about 150 yards of old underground telephone cable that runs from my home to the closest pole that has the new fiber optic line. I thought that would be an issue but seems to not be because it works fine.

DSL was out today for hours - St.Marys, Charleston & Bluefield districts. Was out last week for several hours, too. Frontier continues to patch up the existing system without upgrading so it'll keep happening.

Misty wrote:

Well, tickle me pink. Wick area in Tyler County finally got Frontier high speed DSL internet service. This is the biggest news to hit the Wick area since God knows when. Started out here on dial-up, moved on to Hughesnet & now getting DSL. This may mean nothing to the city folk on here but huge relief for us country folk. lol

After years of dial-up, we have Frontier's high-speed internet and we love it. Sure, there have been some outages, but for me, a teacher and also the station manager for WRSG 91.5 FM, it's been a godsend. I can work much more efficiently, and can now spend more time at home doing what formerly could only be done at Tyler Consolidated!

Daytime Speedtest Results:

Download Speed: 1155 kbps (144.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 154 kbps (19.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Wednesday, February 08, 2012 1:10:15PM

Evening Speedtest Results:
Download Speed: 495 kbps (61.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 131 kbps (16.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Wednesday, February 08, 2012 8:15:38 PM

It's much better than dialup but it's not consistent so it's very poor for the price:$55+ per month!