Hello Wayne
On 22-May-99, you wrote:
> Mr. Chris Wiles esq said somethang like this:
>> On a sidenote, most free ISP's all use Teliconet as their backbone (in
>> effect they /are/ Teliconet you are dialing). Therefore you'll see NO
>> performance change from, say, Free4All to ConnectFree. It's amazing, I
>> have people phone me and say 'I am connected to x, y and z, to see the
>> difference in performance...', but x/y/z == Teliconet, just re-badged as
>> another free ISP ;)
>>
> You misunderstand my actions Mr. Wiles. I'm quite happy with
> Free4all as my primary ISP. The reason I keep trying all these other
> ISP's, is *not* necessarily to find a /faster/ISP, but because I am
> trying to find a backup ISP for the odd occation when Free4all isn't
> available.
>
> Also to check what newsgroups they support which Free4all doesn't,
> that may be of some interest to me.
>
> Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get a large proportion of these
> free ISP's to work properly, if at all. For example:
> ConnectFree - Genesis bombs on connection.
> FreeOnline - Keeps losing connection without dropping the line.
> FreeServe - Can't get past PAP authentification despite checking
> settings umpteen times.
>
> Help has been asked for on this ML for all of the above, but
> unfortunately, nobody has been able help. No point calling the
> helplines - /"What's an Omega?"/ Hmm :-(
> So the search goes on.
>
> Although UK Online, apart from the limited (but very fast) newsgroup
> support, seems to working ok for now. /Fingers crossed!/ :-)
>
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Regards
Bernie
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