Archive for the ‘New Features’ Category

Coming soon: New Fusion equipment!

Thursday, June 28th, 2012

I'm very excited to announce that on July 1st, we will be launching a new equipment program for our residential Fusion Broadband+Phone service. The new equipment is a super-fast ASDL2+ modem/router with four Fast Ethernet ports, high-powered WiFi "N" and an easy-to-use web interface. Built-in Firewall protection for your home ...

Modem support and assistance

Monday, June 25th, 2012

In the near future we will be integrating customer premise modems into a centralized configuration platform, or ACS, using TR-069. This will allow support staff to view and update some modem settings, to view connection statistics, and for some equipment, to push firmware updates. If you have ZTE, Motorola or Pace/2Wire ...

forums.sonic.net launched!

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Over the years, our local sonic.* Usenet newsgroups supported a vibrant community of customers and staff.  Unfortunately, participation has dwindled and hence, their value as a resource for our customers.  Despite our nostalgia for the local groups and Usenet as a whole, we know that we need to provide a ...

Domain email tool upgrade

Monday, October 25th, 2010

We have cleaned up and improved the functionality of our domain email tool. New features: Have email sent to your domain be delivered to multiple addresses. In order to use this feature simply specify your destination emails separated by a comma. ex. foo@sonic.net, foo1@sonic.net Alias your domain email to another domain. In order to use ...

Python upgraded on web cluster

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Python has been upgraded to version 2.6 on our webcluster and shell server. Access the new version by calling python2.6 instead of python. MySQLdb has also been installed along with this upgrade. -William

Updates to password changing tool

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

In the interest of customer security we have updated our password changing tool to email main account holders when either the main account, or any mailbox under that account has the password changed.  The email also will go to any "invoice to email" addresses you have on the account.  We ...

Sonic’s New Member Tools are now Member Tools!

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Today we finished the process of switching our Member Tools system from its old home on http://sonic.sonic.net to https://members.sonic.net/. A few tools still remain on the old server but  https://members.sonic.net/ is now the URL from which you will access all tools. Moving to our new server will allow us to add ...

New features added to our DNS Editor tool.

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

We have added the ability for our customers to edit their Reverse DNS in our DNS Editor Member Tool: https://members.sonic.net/websites/nameservers/host_records This tool works for anyone with IP Address services with us; be it Colocation, Leased Server, DSL, or anything else with an IP address tied to it; you can now use this ...

Sonic.net Backup Service

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Sonic.net would like to invite you to try out our new online backup service. Our online backup service is available for OS X and Windows 2K or greater. It comes with a 50GB quota to backup all of your important documents and pictures. For helping us test this new service you ...

Sonic.net releases a few good Blogs.

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

For the last few weeks we here at Sonic.net have been working on setting up a few new Blogs to increase transparency into our company and keep our customers and the public at large more informed about our latest developments. These Blogs are: The Sonic.net CEO Blog - http://corp.sonic.net/ceo/ : Postings from ...