A Dead Horse?

Apparently this news group is a dead horse.


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On 2007-10-24, Claude S. Sutton <claudesutton@suttonmachine.com> wrote:

> Apparently this news group is a dead horse.

Apart from complaining that Alltel abandoned Southern
Minnesota, I don't really have much to do with Alltel any more.

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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:29:05 -0400, Michael wrote:


>
> The Cingular/AT&T and Verizon groups mostly contain a crapload of whining.
> I guess Alltel customers don't feel the need to complain so much.
>
> mike


Thanks for that.

That will save me a lot of time otherwise wasted looking at their packages.

CSSJR

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On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:44:18 +0000, Larry wrote:


>
> I'm going to my local Alltel HQ here in Charleston, SC, with a
> printout of your post to show them when they tell me it's my
> phone....etc, etc, the usual nonsense. I'll try to get some
> answers and post back to you what I find out, if anything.
>
>
>
> Larry


I really appreciate that.

If you get an email or web address to which we can complain, let me know.

I hate those 800 numbers. I like it in writing and I like to do it at my
convenience, not theirs. And I sure don't care to sit and wait for 30
minutes to talk to someone in India.

There was a mixup in my domain names. I called Network Solutions and had
a hell of a time understanding the lady. Lots of static on the phone
line, and although she spoke perfect English, every now and then she would
use a phrase a little unusual.

Finally it dawned on me that I was talking on an overseas line to someone
in another country, so I asked her where she was.

The Philippines.

She was OK but still, it was not easy to hear her through all of the noise
on the line.

So if you can get an email or web site to which we can register
complains, please let me know.

CSSJR

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"Claude S. Sutton" <claudesutton@suttonmachine.com> wrote in
news:pan.2007.10.24.23.43.32.732477@suttonmachine. com:

> Who has the best broad band wireless?
>
> I hate to change because I like the company, but I can not
stand this
> crap. It is driving me nuts, literally.
>
>

I don't think any of them are "best", Claude. Verizon has been
dumping customers, over 13,000 of them, for using their
"unlimited service", but the NY Attorney General seems to have
gotten them to change their deceptive business practice of
calling it "unlimited" when it was REALLY just email, web
browsing and company intranet access if you have one at Sutton
Machine. All other uses are forbidden, but they had that hid
away down 20 levels and NEVER had the agreement to read in the
stores.

I'm getting the same dumping on both my first Motorola E815, and
the warranty replacement refurb E815 I'm using as a BT modem to a
Nokia N800 internet tablet, now. It just disconnects whenever it
feels like it.

I'm going to my local Alltel HQ here in Charleston, SC, with a
printout of your post to show them when they tell me it's my
phone....etc, etc, the usual nonsense. I'll try to get some
answers and post back to you what I find out, if anything.



Larry
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"Claude S. Sutton" <claudesutton@suttonmachine.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.10.24.13.24.37.174857@suttonmachine. com...
> Apparently this news group is a dead horse.
>
>

The Cingular/AT&T and Verizon groups mostly contain a crapload of whining.
I guess Alltel customers don't feel the need to complain so much.

mike

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:52:27 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:


> Apart from complaining that Alltel abandoned Southern
> Minnesota, I don't really have much to do with Alltel any more.


I have been an Alltel cell phone customer since before they were Alltel.

Over 20 years.

I have been using their broadband wireless for a year and I thought it was
pretty good.

But recently I get so many dropped connections that I can not get any work
done.

I know it is not my equipment because it will work fine for hours at a
time and then it will drop drop drop until it drives you crazy.

Who has the best broad band wireless?

I hate to change because I like the company, but I can not stand this
crap. It is driving me nuts, literally.

CSSJR

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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:52:27 -0000, Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
wrote:

>On 2007-10-24, Claude S. Sutton <claudesutton@suttonmachine.com> wrote:
>
>> Apparently this news group is a dead horse.
>
>Apart from complaining that Alltel abandoned Southern
>Minnesota, I don't really have much to do with Alltel any more.

Alltel didn't "abandon" Southern Minnesota. Alltel was FORCED to
divest that market during the process of acquiring another company,
which gave them a MMUUCCHH bigger market - mainly the purchase of
Midwest Wireless.

If you must blame somebody, blame the FCC and anti-trust rules.

> Alltel didn't "abandon" Southern Minnesota. Alltel was FORCED to
> divest that market during the process of acquiring another company,
> which gave them a MMUUCCHH bigger market - mainly the purchase of
> Midwest Wireless.
>
> If you must blame somebody, blame the FCC and anti-trust rules.



I am glad to see that this newsgroup is not a dead horse.

Maybe someone will show up here that can tell us how to either improve our
equipment/setup or tell us how to get our situation before the right
people at Alltel.

As I said, I have been their customer since before they were Alltel. Back
when a cell phone was a foot long and like a brick on your belt and half
the public looked at you with scorn, like "You MUST be important",
snicker, sneer.

I hate to criticize them in public, but I am going nuts with this constant
dropping.

I told a Bell South rep once that I could walk into any Alltel office in
the US with a problem and they would fix it in 20 minutes or less. Go to
Bell South with a problem and all they have is reasons, not solutions.

In this case, Alltel is failing me.

CSSJR

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If we do not wish to lose our freedom, we must learn to tolerate our
neighbor's right to freedom even though he might express that freedom
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:44:18 +0000, Larry wrote:


> I'm going to my local Alltel HQ here in Charleston, SC, with a
> printout of your post to show them when they tell me it's my
> phone....etc, etc, the usual nonsense. I'll try to get some
> answers and post back to you what I find out, if anything.
>
>
>
> Larry

In case your Alltel guy wants to throw off on your equipment, here is mine.

I have a Kyocera 650 PC card. This is the card sold by Alltel for use
with their system.

I used it in my Thinkpad laptop for months and it worked very well.

Recently I purchased a Kyocera KR1 wireless router and use the same card
in it.

For a while, I worried that it might be the router; that it might be
defective, so I put the card back in the laptop and had the same problem.

I have a second laptop running windoze WK2. Tested the card in it with
the same results.

I also note a big difference according to the time of day.

It runs much better in the morning hours. Today from 8:00 AM until 2:00
PM, it did very well. I think I had one drop.

I left the office and when I got back about 5:00 PM, it was one drop after
the other. It is so bad tonight that all I got from the last connection
was your message and my reply.

I use this laptop in Guilford County, NC, in a suburb of Greensboro during
the day and in the very southern edge of Rockingham County at night.

Rockingham county actually has better service than GSO because they have
just updated it to the high speed.

So don't let your contact sneer at my location.

By the way, Charleston is my favorite town although I have not been there
for a while.

People that brag about the food in New Orleans don't know what they are
talking about. The best seafood I have ever eaten was in Charleston.

The only place I have ever been that can compare is Boston, out on those
piers near the airport, if I recall correctly.

My favorite, if it is still there, is 82 Queen. Can those people ever
prepare a dinner fit for the King.

We used to come down two or three times a year and did that for years, but
when I sold the plane, the drive turned me off.

CSSJR

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