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Article #56Re: Bye Bye Netcom !
From: John Bianco
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 00:00
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Basically in October of last year Netcom stopped updateing/upgradeing their systems. They have no intrest in the home user. And from the numbers I have seen, Netcom has gone from about 600,000 to around 500,000 users in a year, quite an accomplishment in a industry that is as fast growing as ISPs. spamenot@earthlink.net wrote in article <349CB60B.500F074A@earthlink.net>... > After a couple of years with netcom suffering from multiple calls to > get connected, unexplained hang-ups, busy signals, and worst of all > agonizingly slow server response, I signed up with earthlink.net. > > What a difference! There are eight different numbers in my local > area, four of them support K56. No busy signals so far, and an > astounding improvement in the speed of accessing web pages and > newsgroups. All this with the same old 28.8 modem. > > I only wish I had done it sooner......... > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fa874,2b6ac63f1b613a31 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa874,public X-Google-Thread: 12a392,2b6ac63f1b613a31 X-Google-Attributes: gid12a392,public From: "John Bianco" <rftech@ibm.net> Subject: Re: Bye Bye Netcom ! Date: 1997/12/24 Message-ID: <01bd100b$a2c5d240$29332581@johnbian> X-Deja-AN: 309778316 References: <349CB60B.500F074A@earthlink.net> Organization: IBM.NET Newsgroups: netcom.internet,ba.internet