Chuck: I have a friend who just went to work for what he called "U.S.Worst." He quoted their motto: "Things are bitter here." ;-) I'm just hanging around, waiting, as I'm 24000 feet front the U.S.Worst building in Cottage Grove. I'll wait. Things will happen - more cheaply. >I've had a dial-up ISP account with Mindspring for 2 years now and >been very happy with their availability and support. We have DSL >from USWorst because that's all that was available before the >Mindspring / Earthlink merger. Just some back of the napkin notes >from using the USWorst DSL with USWorst ISP and it seems that >somewhere things are over subscribed so the pipes to the net are full. > >Has anyone made the jump from USWorst to Mindspring / Earthlink? > >Do I keep the DSL service with USWorst and just move the ISP >connection to Earthlink or do I get it all from Earthlink? > >thanks >chuckc > > >tclug-list at mn-linux.org wrote: >> I have a couple of friends down there that get chater service. One of them was >part of the beta setup. At that time he was getting 25K (And his intranet dhcp >server was being relayed over charter hehehehehe, anways), but now they both are >getting about 60K. > > >Mike Hicks wrote: > >> "Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote: >> > >> > A friend of mine is using Charter in Apple Valley. It is much faster than >> > dial-up - but he is seeing 18KB/s downloads - which is far slower than what >> > they advertised (I believe it was advertised as 400Kb/s ~= 40KB/s). He is >> > getting less than 50%. >> >> Yuck! Your friend should complain! Loudly! >> >> -- >> _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Dinner not ready: (A)bort >> / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ (R)etry (P)izza >> \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) >> [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org >For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org >For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org Bob W. Anderson Newport, MN --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org