ACD.net
Reviews and Complaints

I wanted to get internet where i live, but out in the country there is no dsl or cable. acd.net said they could do a t1 line quoted me all kinds of prices some sounded to go to be true. Well turns out they quoted me "at&t" prices not "frontier" prices. I guess frontier charges them more to rent the copper. after all said and done and figured out they said 300 bucks a month and 150 dollar deposit. I said thats fine untill they get dsl out where we live. Now finaly we get dsl out where we live its been a year of Acd.net's T1 line. I call to cancel my servers. they said it has to be in righting and that there is a early termination fee of 1/2 the months payment for remaining months on contract. I said what contract i never got a contract never read one never signed one. They said it was digitaly signed. i said how can i digitaly sign something that i ve never read. I was never told that 150 dollar deposit ment 3year contract and that the early termination fee was going to be based on how many months left. So now they want me to pay a 4000 dollar early termination fee. where a 500 dollar deposit would of been a 1 year contract and i would of had no early termination fees. if i would of known that a the difference between 150=3years and 500=1 year i would of payed the 500. I was never even quoted the 500 dollars. ACD.net has been very rude on the phone i always get the run around to why my service was out. and it took a very long time to get started over 2 months from when i called and payed the deposit.

@ian-wait till comcast gets thru with you, they are worse!

ACD.net is one of the worst email providers I have ever encountered. If you enjoy hundreds of SPAM messages each day then they are for you!
As an IT professional for more than 20 years, I can tell you this would not be tolerated in any organization!
It is unfortunate that ACD places such little regard for customer satisfaction. I will be taking my business elsewhere.

Stay away from ACD ! I read this forum before subscribing ACD and the reviews are true. I thought that was old reviews and ACD has changed. IT IS NOT !

This company has a lot of problem and not professional. The reasons are:

(1) They build the system on a junk/cheap network interface. I got 3 Zhone modems and all bad and I replaced it with D-Link. Their system can't sustain 24-hours high data transfer rate for my research from MSU to home, almost everyday I call ACD to reset my connection to restore the speed. It means that the problem is not my modem. They have swap their modem twice and they acknowledge that they have bad interface.

(2) They often stop & go by blocking data flow. I have constant data backup for my research from MSU and my data is huge, 10GB per day and sometimes can reach 30 GB. With 6 mbps contract, I only got 4.8 - 5.2 mbps (600-700 KBytes/sec), it means 1 GB for 20-30 minutes. I don't use sharing network and this connection is strictly secured from 1 server at MSU to home (using SSH). I can see ACD blocking/throttling my transfer because I tested the server is not blocking/slowing when I accessed from other server. At the end, when I terminated my contract, I got only 0.8 Mbps (90 Kbytes/sec) ! This time was my angry time with ACD.

(3) Bad Courtesy. No grace period to clean my email accounts. I did not specified date to terminate but please give a week notice! Finally, after 6 months with them I terminated the contract and because bad service complaints they let me go without penalty. Actually, get rid this bandwidth hog !

(4) My employer is also using ACD and it is a nightmare ! Web service (server) they provided is a junk (no PHP/MySQL). Only for a ### using their service (our IT guy is not really IT, more like data management person). And also is robbing my employer (on invoice $150/month for dedicated server but actually it is not dedicated and web space limitted to 2GB !). I have told them to quit ACD ! and now is in process transferring to a new server and new look for our web.

(5) Right now, my neighbor is very kind to let me use their Wi-Fi on Comcast, and I get 1.2 MBytes/sec (>10Mbps!) download speed. Next week, I will be on AT&T again ($35/month vs $70+ for Comcast), it is a slow speed deal, only 1.5 Mbps, it means for 24 hrs I will get 11 GB, and it is ok. If I really need data now, I can tap my neighbor or just transfer it while I'm on campus.

Stay away from ACD.net !

ps. Fortunately, I was on customer account web at the time they erased my secondary emails account, right before closing main account I sent FVCK YOU to all ACD support team on my longest complaint (120 threads that subscribed by all). Maybe next mission is to put bumper sticker on my car "FVCK ACD !"

I've been an ACD.net "DSL" customer for two years. The installation occurred as planned, and has worked virtually without fail since then. Their service has been excellent. Anytime I've called for assistance their support personnel have been extremely polite and helpful. This past week I switched my phone service to ACD. Throughout the process they called to inform of the expected date and time of installation, called again to tell me the technician was delayed because he had to resolve a customer problem that took longer than expected. When the technician arrived he was very accommodating with our installation configuration. After installation, the technician and home office personnel made calls to be certain that phone service was working properly. I highly recommend ACD.net as a DSL and phone service provider. The only weakness I see is that their web site doesn't provide a complete picture of all the features they can provide.

I was a 10 year ACD.net customer with 2 accounts. Both accounts used broadband to monitor alarm systems which documented outages. Approximatly 28% of the time the internet was not available. One account was down for over 30 days with a trouble ticket and they still charged me for the months service. They were very slow to respond to problems and quick to blame the telephone company. When I canceled effective 1/31/2010 they charged me for 10 days of service prorated on 28 days in Feb., and closed my accounts and emails immediatly. Again I am paying for 10 days of service I don't have, however had I stayed with them it would have been down about that much anyway.