Looking for a New ISP
Willard Reese
system accepts (and perhaps supports) OS2 4.5. My ISP has changed servers
and in the process I cannot acquire or send any email on access these
newsgroups.
I'd like an ISP that makes it simple to connect using INJOY.
I'll be eternally grateful.
Willard
Michael DeBusk
> Can a few of you offer your comments about a good service provider
> whose system accepts (and perhaps supports) OS2 4.5.
I'm with Earthlink and had zero trouble hooking up. I do use InJoy. I'm
very satisfied with the service I get from them. I've been told,
though, that not all POPs are as good as the one to which I connect.
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Michael DeBusk, Co-Conspirator to Make the World a Better Place
Did he update http://home.earthlink.net/~debu4335/ yet?
Pete
Email isn't platform specific, so look for info on how to set up Eudora. All
"supporting a particular os" means is that you can call-in for help with
troubles. It doesn't necessarily mean "works only with <the usual os>". What
you may have to do is figure out how your ISP has changed the authentication
process and redo your settings accordingly. Also look in resolv and resolv2 and
be sure the domain name is either blank or the correct one. It's also possible
that either your news reader or email program may not be able to use newer
authentication routines.
Pete
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Bill Clark
> I'm with Earthlink and had zero trouble hooking up. I do use InJoy. I'm
> very satisfied with the service I get from them. I've been told,
> though, that not all POPs are as good as the one to which I connect.
From the other side of the coin: They bought out an excellent ISP that I
was using and turned it into a quagmire... This was for all users and not
just the OS/2 ones...
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John Small
<m_de...@despammed.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 00:57:44 GMT, Willard Reese <are...@bestnetpc.com> wrote:
>
> > Can a few of you offer your comments about a good service provider
> > whose system accepts (and perhaps supports) OS2 4.5.
>
> I'm with Earthlink and had zero trouble hooking up. I do use InJoy. I'm
> very satisfied with the service I get from them. I've been told,
> though, that not all POPs are as good as the one to which I connect.
>
Since I've had problems with Earthlink support in the past, I'll toss
my ISP's name into the ring as an alternative: toast.net. I've had
few problems and their support, when I've needed it, has been good.
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John Small
(remove the z's for email address)
Brad BARCLAY
Jack Wise
Houston Area League of PC users (HAL-PC) offers the finest in internet services
with national access from all major metropolitan areas. (including Palm Coast Fl.)
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Jack Wise
Houston, TX
David McKenna
attglobal.net... they absorbed ibm.net.... there's even an OS/2 dialer
for it, but Injoy works just fine with it too. In the 6 years I used it I
connected the first time, every time. Mail and news flawless too.
Dave McKenna (now using comcast.net - 200Kbs!)
Doug Bissett
<DavidM...@comcast.net> wrote:
> attglobal.net... they absorbed ibm.net.... there's even an OS/2 dialer
> for it, but Injoy works just fine with it too. In the 6 years I used it I
> connected the first time, every time. Mail and news flawless too.
I am not sure that I would go out on a limb, and say everything works
perfectly, but attglobal is pretty good, MOST of the time, and I have
not had too many problems with the attglobal dialer (v1.70), for OS/2.
Check out:
where you will find more information, and, you can download the
dialer. Be sure to use the PPP protocol, the SLIP protocol seems to be
broken.
On the other hand, I don't use attglobal much, anymore, because I have
an alternate ADSL connection (not supported by attglobal), which I use
when I am at home. The attglobal connection gets used when I am away
from home.
Hope this helps...
--
From the eComStation 1.1 of Doug Bissett
doug dot bissett at attglobal dot net
(Please make the obvious changes, to e-mail me)
John Varela
<m_de...@despammed.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 00:57:44 GMT, Willard Reese <are...@bestnetpc.com> wrote:
>
> > Can a few of you offer your comments about a good service provider
> > whose system accepts (and perhaps supports) OS2 4.5.
>
> I'm with Earthlink and had zero trouble hooking up. I do use InJoy. I'm
> very satisfied with the service I get from them. I've been told,
> though, that not all POPs are as good as the one to which I connect.
I've been with Earthlink for several years and from time to time have
been dissatisfied with their news servers. But just yesterday they
announced new mail servers have been installed. I'm using one now and
it is *fast*. So now I have no complaints *except* that the POPS in
the Washington DC area seem to be oversubscribed and sometimes my
downloads are slow. I'm sure they'll fix that, too.
--
John Varela
James Moe
> Can a few of you offer your comments about a good service provider whose
> system accepts (and perhaps supports) OS2 4.5. My ISP has changed servers
> and in the process I cannot acquire or send any email on access these
> newsgroups.
> I'd like an ISP that makes it simple to connect using INJOY.
>
connection and mail services were fine. News, however, sucked. The
access was abysmally slow, and required repeated authentication. And
over the last 3 weeks I had been unable to even access the service. The
tech support is pretty dim.
I switched to TheRiver.com (aka; oz.com) since they offered a
reasonable package for ISDN connection. (Earthlink charged an outrageous
amount for ISDN.) TheRiver's news access is *much* better than
Earthlink's. The other services seem at least as good. Tech support is
okay and willing to help even if you are not using windoze.
INJOY connected to both Earthlink and TheRiver without a problem.
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jimoe at sohnen-moe dot com
Erick Andrews
I'm jumping in late in this thread, but let me offer another choice.
In 1996 I went to a local computer trade show here in Marlborough, MA,
and subsequently signed up with StarNet (www.star.net, at the time).
I got InJoy not long after, had very few problems with them then, and nothing
connectivity-wise since. About 2 years ago they were bought out by
www.ttlc.net. Still, good service, and they let me keep my "handle", StarNet.
I believe that TTLC has gone national now. They're 24x7, of darned close
to it. Even though their support is in Texas or Colorado or somewhere else
today, as the wind blows, I've still never had a connecitvity problem with
them using InJoy and OS/2 or with eCS trials.
I'm not up on all their offerings, but for residential dial-up you might want
to check them out at http://www.ttlc.net/residential/index.php
I still pay $19.95/month which includes about 10 MByes of webpages.
I believe they're still out of New Hampshire.
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Good luck,
Erick Andrews
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Michael DeBusk
> I've been with Earthlink for several years and from time to time
> have been dissatisfied with their news servers. But just yesterday
> they announced new mail servers have been installed. I'm using one
> now and it is *fast*.
Same here! What a relief! I felt like I was back on a 2400 modem. :)
Michael DeBusk
> I used Earthlink for 2 - 3 years until recently. Their Internet
> connection and mail services were fine. News, however, sucked.
That's no longer true. It flies now. As of a couple of days ago.
WD Loughman
<DavidM...@comcast.net> wrote:
Just a few days ago, Attglobal changed all their local dialup access
phone numbers for the greater SF Bay Area (California).
They TOLD NO ONE beforehand!! The new ones weren't advertised in any
way. No email advices, nothing! And the old numbers simply stopped
working.
What a mess, trying to get back my access. I have it now, largely,
but sheeeesh!! Customer friendly? NOT!!
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WD "Bill" Loughman - Berkeley, California USA
wdl6...@attglobal.net <- remove the sixes
http://pws.prserv.net/wdl/wdl.htm
OS/2 Warp 4.52 MCP-2 int.rev. 14.086b_W4, the reliable OS!