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vsp · 08-17-2001, 01:02 PM

I'm chugging along with AT&T's 7/7 plan right now ($7 per month for $.07/minute out-of-state and $.10/minute in-state long distance, plus a Worldnet account).

If you connect through the default software for this offer, you get a bloatware toolbar on your screen that feeds ads at you and can't be minimized as long as you're online. Ick. However, if you read the fine print and set up a Dial-Up Networking connection instead, you can avoid that and use WorldNet like any other ISP for about two bucks a month more than the long distance plan costs by itself.

So far, so good, and I even managed to get Pegasus Mail to handle Worldnet's POP and SMTP servers properly (which is more than I can say for AOL -- I gave up trying to figure out how to get my dad away from the braindead AOL mailer).

Which means I now have three Internet accounts -- a Unix shell at Net Access (my primary, though I have no idea what the dialup numbers are these days or what terminal-mode software's good under W98), PPP from Internet Connect in Broomall (from which I telnet to netaxs when needed) and now this AT&T thingy for my wife to use. If they ever get around to making SOME kind of broadband available in the West Goshen area, the count will rise again.

jeff. Neither Comcast nor Verizon seems to like my area.

08-17-2001, 01:02 PM	#6
vsp Syndrome of a Down Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: West Chester Posts: 1,367	I'm chugging along with AT&T's 7/7 plan right now ($7 per month for $.07/minute out-of-state and $.10/minute in-state long distance, plus a Worldnet account). If you connect through the default software for this offer, you get a bloatware toolbar on your screen that feeds ads at you and can't be minimized as long as you're online. Ick. However, if you read the fine print and set up a Dial-Up Networking connection instead, you can avoid that and use WorldNet like any other ISP for about two bucks a month more than the long distance plan costs by itself. So far, so good, and I even managed to get Pegasus Mail to handle Worldnet's POP and SMTP servers properly (which is more than I can say for AOL -- I gave up trying to figure out how to get my dad away from the braindead AOL mailer). Which means I now have three Internet accounts -- a Unix shell at Net Access (my primary, though I have no idea what the dialup numbers are these days or what terminal-mode software's good under W98), PPP from Internet Connect in Broomall (from which I telnet to netaxs when needed) and now this AT&T thingy for my wife to use. If they ever get around to making SOME kind of broadband available in the West Goshen area, the count will rise again. jeff. Neither Comcast nor Verizon seems to like my area.