Bye Bye Netcom !

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3 total messages Started by spamenot Sat, 20 Dec 1997 00:00

#57

Author: spamenot
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 00:00

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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.........

Re: Bye Bye Netcom !

#55

Author: juan valdez
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 00:00

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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.........
> 
> 
Why, so you could get spammed faster?  

Earthlink sucks but it's good for newbies.

No shell and no space on the server; 2megs doesn't count.  

And plenty of busy signals from 6-9pm.  Especially from SF.  Been there,
done that.

Re: Bye Bye Netcom !

#56

Author: John Bianco
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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