DCLink DEAD?
Written: Dec 27 '00
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Pros: cheap
Cons: dead
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| Rabio's Full Review: Capital City Cyberlink (DC and MD, Dial up) |
Looks like Capital City Cyberlink (DCLink) is out of business.
Refer to the "DSL" area for some posts on this at:
http://www.epinions.com/cmsw-ISP-All-Capital_City_Cyberlink_(DC_and_MD,_DSL)
Epinions says I have to post at least 100 words, so here's my post again:
Yes, it looks like Capital City Cyberlink (DCLink) is dead, but can we really be sure?
I was last able to access their servers 10 days ago. However, DCLink has called this sort of thing a "temporary outage" in the past.
All their office phone numbers have been disconnected. However, they've disconnected and changed their numbers before, without telling anyone.
All their dialup numbers are dead but, again, they've changed them all before, without notice.
DCLink was a real bargain when I joined in 1996. Ten bucks a month bought you one of the fastest and most stable dialup connections in the country. I know this because I tried many other ISPs, including AT&T and MCI, and they all sucked compared to DCLink in test trials.
DCLink basically had some fat pipes connected to a killer Internet backbone. You could connect to Japan with only 3 or 4 server hops!
That all ended a couple of years ago, when DCLink's connection quality suddenly fell into the toilet. DCLink, as usual, was mute on this, but I think the company and its operations were reorganized, split-up, and/or sold off. I can't verify this, but I think their Baltimore area operations were downgraded to three 36K modems running on a 286 in somebody's basement.
I also had continual problems with them overbilling me. Given the cheap price, I was willing to overlook this to a point, but it got out of hand. They weren't even sure how their own accounting system worked.
Tech support? Forget it. Waddayawant for ten bucks?
I kept DCLink's service because I had several websites on their servers, everyone contacted me at my DCLink e-mail address, and I just didn't have the time to deal with it.
If you had any website files and/or e-mail you needed from their servers, forget about it.
DCLink reportedly had a fire a few years ago, around this time of year, which caused weeks of interruption and a complete data loss.
Maybe they had another "fire"?
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