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Re: Getting an ISP in Prescott

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From: Karen C Lennex
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:00
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I have cybertrails.com and it is pretty good.  It automatically
disconnects you after 4 hours, but 4 hrs is a long time!  You can turn
right around and reconnect again if you really wanted to be on that long.
Hope this helps!
-Cherie

On Tue, 25 May 1999, Guido's ATV World wrote:

> Well, I did type out a nice long description of all the ISP's in Prescott
> and then Netscape crashed on me. So, here's the very shortened version.
> There is no dialup for AOL in Prescott. The closest numbers are in
> Flagstaff and Phoenix which are both long distance calls. Very expensive. I
> am currently using Northlink but at least once or twice a night, I get
> disconnected from the Internet. The line doesn't actually disconnect, I
> just can't get e-mail or to any WWW sites. They do not offer unlimited
> access so if you go over the limit(which isn't much), it will get very very
> costly.
> 
> I am planning on going to Cyber Trails(www.cybertrails.com). It's $19.95 a
> month, first month is free, no setup fee, unlimited time, and have a senior
> citizen discount. I also hear Primenet(www.primenet.com) and Cable
> One(www.cableone.net) are good. DO NOT USE FUTURE ONE(Used to be Lankaster)
> OR BSL. They don't have a clue. I do computer work up here for a living so
> I hear a lot about each of these ISP's. Hope this helps.
> 
> --
> Guido's ATV World
> http://www.atvworld.com/
> 
> 
> Frank Kaelin wrote:
> 
> > My mom is going back to her house in Prescott in a couple of weeks and
> > wants to stay wired to the 'net. Here in MI she has AOL, and when she
> > spoke with them they told her that they don't have a local # in her
> > exchange in Prescott that she could dial in to check her AOL account.
> >
> > 1.) Does anyone in the area know whether or not this is true? I'm going
> > to check into it, but it sounds kind of fishy to me that she'd have to
> > dial all the way out to a Tuscon # to get AOL. She doen't want to pay
> > long distance dial-in charges to surf & pick-up mail....
> >
> > 2.) Would anyone recomment an ISP for her to check out in Prescott? One
> > where she could dial-in w/o having to pay long distance or zone charges
> > ( local only ), one that's fairly reliable would be best. I'm thinking
> > somewhere in the $9.95 to $19.95 a month range for unlimited time
> > online. She's 63, so she could be eligible for a Senior discount....
> >
> > Thanks for your help here. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > -Frank
> >
> > fjk@nospam.umich.edu     ( take out "nospam." and you have my e-mail
> > address )
> 
> 
> 
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From: Karen C Lennex <kcl@U.Arizona.EDU>
Subject: Re: Getting an ISP in Prescott
Date: 1999/05/25
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