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Butch Davis wrote:
Finally Earthlink usenet is up, again. Good grief, how could it take
professionals soooo long to fix the problem?

Butch

Butch, Is Earthlink newsgroups still working for you? I'm getting
headers some of the time, but the message bodies won't download.
Jim


Hey Jim,

Is your email working?

RCE

Dunno. Give me a ping.

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Yes, my EL groups continues to work... at least most of the time. I had a
little difficulty earlier this AM but it was working again in a few minutes.

I've been with EL for only a few years but am becoming quickly disenchanted.
I use dialup and too often get a slower than 53K connection. That, combined
with the groups fiasco has me considering a change. Any recommendations?

The only other ISP I've used was AOL which became a total disaster, IMO,
back when I switched. BTW, they continue to owe me a couple of bucks in
refund $. Not enough for me to make a major issue of it but it certainly
reflects the corporate ethics at AOL.

Butch Davis
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Butch Davis wrote:
Finally Earthlink usenet is up, again. Good grief, how could it take
professionals soooo long to fix the problem?

Butch

Butch, Is Earthlink newsgroups still working for you? I'm getting
headers some of the time, but the message bodies won't download.
Jim


Hey Jim,

Is your email working?

RCE

Dunno. Give me a ping.

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Butch Davis wrote:
Yes, my EL groups continues to work... at least most of the time. I had a
little difficulty earlier this AM but it was working again in a few minutes.

I've been with EL for only a few years but am becoming quickly disenchanted.
I use dialup and too often get a slower than 53K connection. That, combined
with the groups fiasco has me considering a change. Any recommendations?

The only other ISP I've used was AOL which became a total disaster, IMO,
back when I switched. BTW, they continue to owe me a couple of bucks in
refund $. Not enough for me to make a major issue of it but it certainly
reflects the corporate ethics at AOL.

Butch Davis
"Jim" wrote in message
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"RCE" wrote in message
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"jiminfl" wrote in message
ups.com...
Butch Davis wrote:
Finally Earthlink usenet is up, again. Good grief, how could it take
professionals soooo long to fix the problem?

Butch
Butch, Is Earthlink newsgroups still working for you? I'm getting
headers some of the time, but the message bodies won't download.
Jim

Hey Jim,

Is your email working?

RCE

Dunno. Give me a ping.



Butch,

Go with ISL or real Broadband (cable). You will get 5-7kbs with a good
dialup connection, 175-250kbs with DSL and 3000-6000kbs with cable. I
am on Comcast, and my speed checks are always over 6000 kbs.

The Internet is completely different on broadband.

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Reggie

That's my story and I am sticking to it.

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Gene Kearns wrote:
On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:04:38 GMT, Butch Davis penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Yes, my EL groups continues to work... at least most of the time. I had a
little difficulty earlier this AM but it was working again in a few minutes.

I've been with EL for only a few years but am becoming quickly disenchanted.
I use dialup and too often get a slower than 53K connection. That, combined
with the groups fiasco has me considering a change. Any recommendations?

The only other ISP I've used was AOL which became a total disaster, IMO,
back when I switched. BTW, they continue to owe me a couple of bucks in
refund $. Not enough for me to make a major issue of it but it certainly
reflects the corporate ethics at AOL.

Personally, I'd think hard about Time Warner Road Runner. I think both
of you are close enough to Pasadena to make it work. Don't expect any
ISP to give decent USENET service. Check out usenet-access.com or some
other news service for reliable service..

Gene,
Comcast gave up handling UseNet and contracted their UseNet access out
to giganews. Their service is FANTASTIC and you get 2 GB of downloads
per month for free. If you need more you can pay for the service from
giganews.

As you can tell, I am very very pleased with Comcast as a ISP and Cable
provider.

--
Reggie

That's my story and I am sticking to it.

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Gene Kearns wrote:
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 07:33:22 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers"
wrote:


Gene,
Comcast gave up handling UseNet and contracted their UseNet access out
to giganews. Their service is FANTASTIC and you get 2 GB of downloads
per month for free. If you need more you can pay for the service from
giganews.

As you can tell, I am very very pleased with Comcast as a ISP and Cable
provider.

Giganews is a great provider. I don't know about the OP, but Comcast
does not serve my area.

I hope your Vonage is working out OK. I finally had to dump them for
poor service... actually NO service. Trying to get unhooked from that
bunch of idiots was a real experience.

Gene,
I have had a few minor problems with getting the telephone modem sync'ed
up with Comcast. This had to do with setting up new computers, or after
a power failure. It is realitively easy, painless and fast to do as
long as you have a cell phone to call Vonage. I have had to reboot the
telephone modem (pull the plug out for 30 secs) a few times after power
failures, same as I have to do with my cable modem, but I would rate the
quality of telephone service itself a A-, the quality of Customer
Service a B+ to a A+ depending upon the rep. I was talking to. I would
rate BellSouth's service quality a A, and customer service a D to B.
Vonage offered a total package at considerably cost savings over
BellSouth, but the real reason is I wanted to give BellSouth some
competition.

I would never recommend Vonage, or any Internet Telephone service, to
someone who was not comfortable setting up their computer (ie my mother
in law), but it is a winner in my book. The kiss of death with
BellSouth was their attitudes when I contacted them to disconnect the
service. They were a real pain in the ass, and highlighted the reason
ALL corporations need strong viable competitors to keep them at their
best. BellSouth has always reminded me of the DMV, they were the one
game in town, and they knew it, so customer service or flexibility was
not a priority.

Clark Howard (a radio consumer advocate) has had a number of callers
call in about Vonage and the other Internet Telephone Companies, and the
general consensus is they are good strong competitors to MaBell local
service. There are very few callers who have left Vonage to go back to
MaBell. All of his staff have left MaBell and all of them are very
comfortable with their new telephone services.
--
Reggie

That's my story and I am sticking to it.

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On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:07:29 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 07:33:22 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers"
wrote:



Gene,
Comcast gave up handling UseNet and contracted their UseNet access out
to giganews. Their service is FANTASTIC and you get 2 GB of downloads
per month for free. If you need more you can pay for the service from
giganews.

As you can tell, I am very very pleased with Comcast as a ISP and Cable
provider.

Giganews is a great provider. I don't know about the OP, but Comcast
does not serve my area.

I hope your Vonage is working out OK. I finally had to dump them for
poor service... actually NO service. Trying to get unhooked from that
bunch of idiots was a real experience.

After a few jitters with SunRocket, I've cancelled my normal telephone
service (Verizon). Now I'm paying SunRocket $199 per *year* and get more
than what I got with Verizon. I recently plugged the SunRocket adapter into
a wall telephone jack and it powers all the jacks in the house. Of course,
I unplugged the Verizon line outside the house.

I use Cox Cable for my ISP, and I upgraded the speed so I'm getting about
18 Mbps download and about 1.7Mbps upload.

For a little over $16 per month I can put up with an occasional echo. When
I have a problem with outage, which has happened only once recently,
repowering the modem and the adapter has solved the problem.
--
'Til next time,

John H

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On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:05:32 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:59:48 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Gene Kearns wrote:
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:08:11 -0400, JohnH wrote:


After a few jitters with SunRocket, I've cancelled my normal telephone
service (Verizon). Now I'm paying SunRocket $199 per *year* and get more
than what I got with Verizon. I recently plugged the SunRocket adapter into
a wall telephone jack and it powers all the jacks in the house. Of course,
I unplugged the Verizon line outside the house.

I use Cox Cable for my ISP, and I upgraded the speed so I'm getting about
18 Mbps download and about 1.7Mbps upload.

For a little over $16 per month I can put up with an occasional echo. When
I have a problem with outage, which has happened only once recently,
repowering the modem and the adapter has solved the problem.

Yeah! I've been watching SunRocket, but they don't serve either number
I would like to port.


18 Mbps download?

Yeah... I think that was a typo. According to their website it would
take an optical connect to get over 15 Mbps down and 2 Mbps up.

Today it was only a little over 15Mbps. Look 'over there' for 'Speedtest'.
Yesterday it was as I posted. I'll admit I'm paying an extra $15 a month
for the higher speed!
--
John H

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