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Hi, |
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Since I only use Linux, this is basically the only place I get |
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help/advice so here I go. |
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As some may know, I have been waiting on DSL for years here. Always |
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being promised that it is coming but found out today, through a informal |
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FCC complaint, that it is not coming any time soon. They lied though |
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their teeth in my opinion. What else can be said about AT&T. Yea, we |
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got the DSL box up the street but no DSL. Not real sure how that |
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works. Well, here is the deal in a nutshell. I am switching from AT&T |
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to save some cash and because they got me pissed off. I am currently |
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using AT&T for email and everything which means I will have to change my |
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email address during the switch to a new ISP and this is getting |
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boring. Keep in mind through this that I am disabled so keeping it in |
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budget is important. My plan is something like this: |
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Get a Yahoo email account and pay for POP access, about $20.00 a year I |
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think. I think this will make it so that I never have to change email |
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addresses when I switch ISPs and will get the same service regardless of |
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who I connect to the internet with in the future. This is a long term |
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fix to my email switching issue. |
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I have checked on basicisp.com and a couple others and ran into a couple |
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"issues". 1: They have a 4 hour connect limit which is not good but |
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possible. 2: They limit you to 200 hours a month. This sucks. They |
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claim "unlimited access" then limit you in the fine print. Does anyone |
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know of a reasonably priced dial-up ISP that does not have a monthly |
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limit? |
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After getting things switched over, I hope this will make things easier |
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in the future if I need to switch ISPs or something. My questions are: |
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1: Does anyone know of a reasonably priced dial-up ISP that does not |
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have a monthly limit? Does anyone see anything wrong/weird with my |
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plan? Maybe something I need to add in? |
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Thanks for the help/advice. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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P.S. I can't afford the satellite thing. I wish I could tho. No cable |
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here either. Hmmm, may go talk to the cable company about putting cable |
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out here and we can get internet, TV and Vonage then. That would be cool. |
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