I've heard a lot of blind people have had issues with Earth Link. When we tried to buy it at home, we could never get it to connect up. I use Bell South now.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sarah Cranston Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 8:18 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: RE: [Braillenote] email frustrations continue I have always used Earthlink with my BN, and it works fine for me. If I get a lot of those errors I reset before trying to download Email again. > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sarai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected] >Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:46:32 -0500 >Subject: RE: [Braillenote] email frustrations continue >Lisa, >A lot of people have had problems with Earth link. In fact, I got the >same errors and hang ups when I tried to use Earth Link's settings at >my grandparent's to access my messages. To test this, try accessing a >different account with a different ISP if that's possible for you to >do. >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lisa >Ehlers >Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 1:32 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Braillenote] email frustrations continue >Hi Everyone, >Okay the email frustrations continue. This morning I had 59 messages >to download. The BN did okay until message 43. Then I got the >following error message. error 10054. I exited and pressed i to hang >up immediately and tried downloading again. I have a BN BT. After >several attempts I got my emails. When I went to empty the trash I >only had 48 emails not 59 to delete. What it did with those other 11 >emails is beyond me. A little later I decided to check email again. It >showed I had 64 messages this time. I checked in the setup options >under receive options and found that the BN was set to delete the >emails from the server after receiving. I called Earthlink and had >them delete all of my emails. Here's what concerns me. My BN started >having trouble with emails giving weird error messages right before its >Braille display crashed last time. Why these two issues go together I >cannot explain. I tried deleting the email database last time and it >didn't solve the problem. I don't know if it is worth deleting the >Keymail database this time only to have the problems persist. I feel >like I have to baby-sit my BN when it downloads email to make sure it >is downloading okay. This is time-consuming and frustrating. Thanks >for letting me vent. The ISP I use isn't through Earthlink. I use >Earthlink for my pop server. My local ISP is my smptp server so where >my email is sent out and I use my local ISP to access the Internet. >Confusing but it usually works. >The ISP tech support are closed today. The ISP technicians recently >upgraded my services. I was worried that upgrading my services was a >bad idea but they were upgrading all of their antennae sites. My >service is broadband but I don't use a wireless card. I use the >Etheernet card that works with the BN the one Pulsedata recommends. >This card is hooked to a Cat 5 cable which is hooked to my router. Any >suggestions would be helpful. Thanks for your time and your help. >Sorry this is lengthy. Lisa >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
