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Re: Best Internet is the WORST! Who should I switch to???

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From: Dameon D. Welch
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 00:00
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In article <32682bdb.75552413@nntp.best.com>,
Ex Mudder <dkeith@best.com> wrote:
|t4p@best.com (Mark Jeghers) wrote:
|
|>I am fed up with the PATHETIC service from Best Internet.
|>Not a day goes by that my connectivity through them is disconnected,
|>or fails to connect for an hour, or the mail server is braindead,
|>or a flood of transmittion errors...
|
|  Interesting...  is it just me, or does a lot of this sound like a
|phone line / modem problem.

Sounds like that to me. I get some slow access on webx, but things generally
work okay from me. Of course, I use the shell for a lot of things like
email, though I occasionally use POP to download file attachments.

|>Best Internet made the selling point that they would manage
|>their growth to assure top quality for their customers.  They
|>have FAILED to keep this promise.  If I want broken promises and
|>groundless claims of performance, I'll vote for Clinton instead.

I've decided that no ISP is the holy grail. I always maintain accounts on
a couple of different ISPs in case of problems of any sort. 

-- 
Dameon D. Welch "PhoneBoy" (dwelch@uplink.com, http://www.uplink.com/)
RadioNet Talk Radio (radionet@radionet.com, http://www.radionet.com)
Associate Producer, Edu-torial Correspondant, and WebMaster
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From: dwelch@best.com (Dameon D. Welch)
Subject: Re: Best Internet is the WORST!  Who should I switch to???
Date: 1996/10/19
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