OT: Looking for backup ISP

nospambob · 2006-04-09T12:18:42+00:00

Moved from So CALIF to Georgia and trying to keep CALIF ISP we haveused for several years. They provided a list of 25 phone numberprefixes that they are networked with somehow and one number has workeduntil yesterday. We signed up for Bellsouth ISP support but signing onthere isn't entirely compatible with the CALIF ISP. Username isn't thesame and I'm pursuing a "throw away" free ISP as backup. Bellsouthleases their lines to another company that we switched to and theyassert nothing will change but everyone knows how "they" are. Justchecked Juno as memory recalled no cost and cost options but all I sawwas $9.95/month which I'd like to avoid. Retirement income doesn'toffer much wiggleroom! I'm accustomed to downloading posts from 4newsgroups and reading offline and dislike tying up the phoneline ifforced to read/respond online instead of offline. Suggestions welcomed.

Apr 09, 2006 25 Replies

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Gooey TARBALLS 20 years ago

NO, my total phone bill INCLUDING DSL is < 40.

"cost of my cable + VoIP only slightly higher than my POTS "

That was my point about different markets. The prices of these services vary widely throughout the US.

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Larry Blanchard 20 years ago

Darn newbies are everywhere! I started 50 years ago :-).

Of course, I had the good sense to retire 10 years ago when my clients started requesing I put SCADA systems on Windoze :-).

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Odinn 20 years ago

On 4/10/2006 10:22 AM Gooey TARBALLS mumbled something about the following:

You still don't know how to snip a proper sig? When are you going to get a PROPER newsreader?

You're $40 gives you Free LD? VoiceMail? Call Waiting, Call Forwarding?

Does your DSL give you 3MB down and 768k up?

Or do you have bare basic DSL and POTS?

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Odinn 20 years ago

Damn, did you work on ENIAC?

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Larry Blanchard 20 years ago

Nope - just Univac, Readix, Ramac, etc.. My favorite was the GE400 series that came out in the mid 60s. I even wrote a DOS for that one, with about as much functionality as MSDOS :-).

I started with punched cards in '55 and started programming on the Readix in '57. Take a look at:

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Odinn 20 years ago

I never played with any iron that old, the oldest I ever developed on was Harris H300/H800, Honeywell DPS-6, and Wang VS-100s. Wrote a lot of terminal emulators and file transfer protocols in the mid-late 80's for DOS and Windows, but I've always been a UNIX geek. In the mid 90's I was part owner (and CTO) of an ISP. Nowdays, I do admin for several hundred Windows, HP-UX, AIX and Linux servers.

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