Posted by Dan on 02/16/07 03:43

On Feb 14, 1:41 am, rem6...@yahoo.com (robert maas, see http://
tinyurl.com/uh3t) wrote:
> I had to be careful *never* to click on any link to anything that
> might have images and take another 20 minutes to download. Of
> course I cancelled the service before the free month was finished,
> but AT&T insisted on billing me for the second month, and refused
> to totally retract the charges, and I refused to pay even the
> reduced amount, so they cut off my long distance service, which has
> remained cut off to this day. Anyway, I've been text-only at home
> ever since.

So you had a bad experience with an ISP nine years ago, and because of
that you refuse to use anything but a plain-text shell account ever
since? That seems rather ridiculous. Why not try a different ISP?
And maybe the slowness you report was because your computer was
antiquated even nine years ago; if you got a more modern machine, and
a high-bandwidth Internet connection, you'd have a much richer
experience.

--
Dan

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