X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f45cf,1a78a315138bb442 X-Google-Attributes: gidf45cf,public X-Google-Thread: 1123a0,1a78a315138bb442 X-Google-Attributes: gid1123a0,public X-Google-Thread: f9bd6,1a78a315138bb442 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9bd6,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,1a78a315138bb442 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 149695,1a78a315138bb442 X-Google-Attributes: gid149695,public X-Google-Thread: 110f55,1a78a315138bb442 X-Google-Attributes: gid110f55,public X-Google-Thread: 14e674,1a78a315138bb442 X-Google-Attributes: gid14e674,public X-Google-Thread: fd588,1a78a315138bb442 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public From: Ken Moore Subject: Re: The Travln' John Date: 1996/04/18 Message-ID: <3175A2F5.6783@yvv.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 148139995 references: <4j19ah$f56@news.indy.net> <4l38nd$74d@news.fullnet.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: YVV.COM, Inc. Internet Service Provider mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: Iceman@yvv.com newsgroups: alt.america.online,alt.ascii-art,alt.ascii-art.animation,alt.best.of.internet,alt.binaries.clip-art,alt.binaries.fonts,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii,alt.binaries.pictures.cartoons,alt.binaries.pictures.celebrities,alt.binaries.pictures.comics,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.cartoons,alt.binaries.pictures.nudism,alt.binaries.pictures.tasteless,alt.binaries.sounds,alt.binaries.sounds.cartoons,alt.binaries.sounds.misc,alt.binaries.sounds.movies,alt.binaries.sounds.music,alt.binaries.sounds.tv,alt.binaries.startrek,alt.binaries.starwars,alt.binaries.x-files,alt.bizarre,alt.christnet.nudism,alt.collecting,alt.consumers.free-stuff,alt.cult.nudism,alt.dads.rights,alt.dads-rights.unmoderated,alt.disney,alt.disney.collecting,alt.disney.disneyland,alt.disney.secrets,alt.disney.the-evil-empire,alt.dreams,alt.dreams.lucid,alt.fan.disney,alt.fan.disney.afternoon,alt.food.waffle-house,alt.forsale,alt.freaks x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; 68K) The Travln' John wrote: > > The main factor in posting/retrieval times is your modem. I started > with a 2400 baud modem on this puter and the upload/download times > were killing me while online with AOL, Compuserve and Prodigy, running > my monthly bills into the hundreds and testing my patience to no end. > I upgraded to a Zoom 14.4 modem I got at my local WalMarts. This > should have increased the speed at least 6 times but my local access > lines to these services where I live are restricted to 2400 baud. > > The first of the year I discovered 2 internet providers with > unrestricted baud access (up to 28.8 baud), local access numbers and > unlimited hours per month for only around $20 per!! These are TCP/IP > providers with what they call PPP (Point to Point Protocol). The > providers are CenCom Internet and Fullnet locally, another service > called Ionet has started up here and AT&T is starting one called > Worldnet. I predict that the AT&T is the one that is going to allow > anyone with a computer, modem and a phone line access at full > unrestricted modem speeds to the internet no matter where they live or > work. Again for only around $20/month unlimited hours and no long > distance charges!! MCI also has an internet services and more are > coming out of the woodwork and jumping on the band wagon. > > I am currently signed up to both CenCom Internet and Fullnet and have > sent my subscription in for AT&T's Worldnet (ever have a provider go > down leaving you with no access for a while? Multi providers make > sense to keep my addiction to the internet going!!). AOL, Compuserve > and Prodigy are history in my book (you can find almost everything you > can find on these services freely available on the internet/WWW) but > if you simply cannot do without these services you can access AOL and > Compuserve from the internet side!! At the unrestricted modem speed > that a TCP/IP connection allows!! You still have to pay the hourly > fees they charge but at the lowest rate (if you have been using AOL's > 1-800 access line that allows maximum access speed you know that you > are paying from $9 to $10 per hour!!). > > The major services do NOT make this info freely available...it took me > months of high monthly online bills to discover this. The info is > there but unless you already know about it you may never learn how > badly you are being ripped off!! After all the longer you are online > to their services the more you are going to have to pay them. > > Remember, I am currently using 2 (two) internet providers and have > signed up for a third. While I was signed on to the big 3 I would > begin to develop extreme anxiety over the amount of time it took to > locate and save what I wanted. A file that took me 1hour/60minutes to > up or download at the restricted baud rates now only takes less than > 10 minutes to do and when I can finally afford the upgrade to 28.8 > will be twice as fast!! "http://thelist.com" has thousands of servers to choose from so you can get away from AOL, Compuserve . . .