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Well, while I like the customer service with Brighthouse, I'm reaching the end of my rope with its lack of reliable internet service. I can understand the net clipping out during harsh storms, etc...but, every day this week, my internet service is out for at least 10 minutes, and today it was out for nearly 30 minutes! I called BH, and the cust service rep apologized and said...'I will send a signal to your router.' Huh?
Now, it's obviously working, but no lie, in the past year of having this service, our internet service has gone out at least 50 times. 50 times in a year? Probably more, I stopped counting. And sometimes for over 30 minutes. There had been slight improvement about a month ago, I thought maybe in our prior home, something was causing the problem. But, here we go again--weekly outages, and sometimes daily.
I'm over it, and I have filled out customer surveys reporting this...and nothing changes. Still, weekly and sometimes daily outages. My neighbors and coworkers complain about it as well. Not sure why they have so many outages--if it's on purpose to save money...or what. But, I would like to report this company to be investigated by whatever company regulates them--anyone know who to report Brighthouse to? I did a google search, and the Florida Public Service Commission only handles eletric, water, etc...not cable and internet consumer complaints.
Your help is appreciated--thanks!
If after complaining, nothing changes--I'm going to ditch BH...their customer service is great, but I can't keep having daily internet outages likes this.
Last edited by Sharon2226; 08-10-2008 at 11:52 AM..
Call and ask to speak to a manager, politely but if they give you any problem be firm and don't accept anything other than a manager. If necessary threaten to call local TV station, write a letter to the CEO and/or cancel your account.
While the ppl you are talking with are nice and may know enough to do certain things they are not equipped to handle your type of problem. Most problems are fixed by doing certain things, sending a signal to your router is one of those things. That is like with your computer.. call the help number and you will get 'delete cookies, temp files. reboot' That is a standard on the list of things to try. I had a similar problem and it turned out to be something on their end with the connection.
Have you tried a new modem or router? We've used BH since we moved here and have never had any outages and we use the computer all day and all night!
Hi becky...no, it's not the router, unfortunately. We actually bought a new router, and the problem is still the same...daily outages this week, and weekly outages for the past year. We moved also in July, and thought maybe it was the way things were installed in the prior home. Nope--still same unpredictable service. I might give it some more time before calling...I am not one to complain, but it's gone on a while...
I wonder if it's Land O'Lakes that is more of the issue, than other areas of Tampa...because neighbors of mine, and coworkers who live out near me, complain of similiar outages.
For Bright House, go to Corporate: Home - Bright House Networks Corporate. All the info for all the counties that Bright House services will be on this website, including phone numbers and email addresses.
Sharon, when you're having an 'outage' what is actually happening? Does your browser say 'Page cannot be displayed'? Does it just sit and crank endlessly with no web page? How many lights on your modem? Is the Internet light green, amber, does it blink or blank? Are there particular web pages that might load better than others? Do they time out while loading?
When you have another outage try this > go to the START button.... and click it
go to > RUN
on the Open: line type > cmd - then click okay
a black window opens...
Type > ping yahoo.com > then press enter
What happens... a 'Reply from ....numbers go here...'
Or 'Request timed out'
If you get a 'Replyfrom ...numbers...' then the problem is local
If you get a 'Request time out' then type
tracert yahoo.com - and press enter
Do you get a list of number stuff or 'Request timed out'
If you get a list but not able to get a web site with your browser then there's a routing problem somewhere 'out there' or could be in your TCP/IP settings, DNS or browser.
If you get a 'Request timed out' then you may have a cranky firewall problem.
Trouble shooting Internet connectivity can be 'problematical' and difficult to pinpoint.
And finally, there isn't really anywhere to complain about DSL service. Internet is not one of those 'life support' services and is not a regulated service in the sense of electricity, water or phones. But you can complain to your Public Utility Commission.
You could try the BBB and you can complain to some telecommunications boards if it's the cable kind I believe.. (I’m also assuming you don’t have a choice to change to a Coax provider as you might find better stability there)
I'd also suggest you think about changing ISP's you might be happier with EVDO provided by Alltel, Verizon or Sprint (and all if it's sprint or alltel they roam on each other) on average it's 1 mbit download and 120 ms to 200 ms ping times which equates to 3-4 second page loads.. (there is satellite broadband out there but I wouldn't suggest it..)
When I had intermittent issues with ADSL provider.. I just gave up cause they didn't care and no new modem would have solved it.. in my case those cause it was ADSL I had a choice between Fast Path and I believe it was called "Safe Mode" which was a 30 ms difference and did provide stability just a giant speed loss and I believe mbit loss too..
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There had been slight improvement about a month ago, I thought maybe in our prior home, something was causing the problem. But, here we go again--weekly outages, and sometimes daily.
