Adelphia PowerLink

Pros: Great connections most of the time. You are always online.
Cons: If a lot of people are on then your speed will decrease.

I have had a 56k modem for God knows how long. To say the least I was sick and tired of it. 56k just wasn’t getting the job done for me. Between the massive downloading that I do and just visiting certain web pages, 56k was to slow, so I decided...

Pros: Super fast internet connection.
Cons: Modem has no power switch. Must unplug to shut off.

This is part 2 of a 2-part review. My first review on Adelphia was about the cable television itself. This review will be about the Adelphia Powerlink cable connection to the internet.

Before I moved to Florida, my fiance was down...

Pros: Speed
Cons: Frequent Outages

Our family lives in a small town in Connecticut. Despite being not that far from New York City we seem to lag behind in technology. It was just two months ago that our local TV Cable Company included an advertisement in our bill. What was the ad for...

Pros: Great Upload and Download Speeds, Constant Connection, Fast Browsing
Cons: Adelphia’s reputation for internet outages, costly, modem heating up

In this internet age I am sure that every single one of us desires the same thing from our internet....speed, speed and more speed. Furthermore, we crave reliability, needing our internet to be accessible and rarely disconnect. Well, Adelphia Cable’s ...

Pros: The internet at blazing speeds (most of the time).
Cons: Support isn't very good.

I Like It
I have now had my Adelphia Powerlink Cable Modem for about a month, and I love it. I read a bunch of epinions about it prior to getting it, and they made me skeptical, but so far I have nothing but love to report. In the month...

Pros: Faster than dial-up.
Cons: read below!

SEE MY UPDATE (2-16-02) AT THE BOTTOM OF PAGE!

THE BEGINNING

In December '01 I decided it was time for a new computer. I ended up with a HP with 1.3ghz AMD Athlon processor, 128 mb sdram, and 40 gig hard drive....

Pros: Sometimes very Fast Download Speed. Better than dial-up. Always on.
Cons: More expensive than DSL and you have to buy Cable TV with it.

UPDATE APRIL 2004 What a difference a year makes. This review was originally posted in April 2003, shortly thereafter my Powerlink service began to degrade. By April 2004 my download speed was down to around 200 Kbps. DSL recenly became available in ...

Pros: Speed, Ease of Install, service, price,support
Cons: No on line web page builder

Introduction My DSL service was turning into a nightmare and I vowed to get cable if it ever reached my area of the city. Finally after years of waiting I got the green light to send my old 768k DSL packing and join the real world at 3,000k! Enter ...

Pros: It's better than dial-up. I guess.
Cons: awful connection speed, too costly for what you're (not) getting, poor service

I've been using cable for my internet for years; it's true that once you go high-speed, you can't go back. Time-warner and Cox are the two I've used the most (and they certainly have their pros and cons), but they are not available where I live in West ...

Pros: Can't think of any
Cons: Absolutely dreadful - intermittent access, very slow downloads.

After suffering with AOHell for about six years, (shameless plug: read my review of AOL) we finally got tired of being kicked offline at least twice every time we tried to use it. Since friends had been raving about DSL service, we checked it out with...

Pros: Always on, decent connection, 5MB free web space, 4 free e-mail accounts
Cons: Slows down occasionally, no warning for planned outages

I had my first taste of high speed internet access when I was at college. Being on a T1 spoiled me. When I moved in to my first apartment (Buffalo, NY) all I was looking for was speed. At the time, Adelphia's PowerLink service was the only option for...

Pros: Cheaper than DSL, no annual contract, free equipment and install, faster than dialup
Cons: Slower than DSL, long wait for tech support, frequent outages, no static IP

I used to have DSL (608K ADSL to be exact), but my DSL provider died and I had to go cable modem route.

My cable provider Adelphia offered a very good deal at that time (4 months ago) – free equipment and installation, no annual...

Pros: fast speed, almost always on connection
Cons: inconsistent service, inconsistent pricing

Like most of us, my first internet connection was a mere 14.4 fax modem that (on a good day) might reach 9.6. Soon, I upgraded to a 33.6 modem that would top out at 24.0 max. After a while I finally got a 56k modem, that only reached 33.6 on the best ...

Pros: Lighting fast.
Cons: Slow email.

An Internet choice for consumers is basically limited to three choices: dial-up, cable or DSL. Having suffered with dial-up connectivity for 15 years, a change was necessary. Prior to the “hit” of the Internet, I was dialing up BBS’s (bulletin board...

Pros: See my review.
Cons: See my review.

I will try not to make this review too long. I will start by telling you that I got my first computer FREE from an isp company who was giving away free computers to people as a gift for signing up for their ISP service. I know you are thinking the prices ...