Here is another quote confirming a view that all dialup ISP's are equally bad, despite price or reputation: ------------ http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/backissues/20031107.phtml Subject: [Lockergnome Windows Fanatics November 7, 2003] Hug Your Neighbor! [excerpt] Ed Wood is steaming mad! Here's why: "What have I been doing lately? Mostly trying to find an ISP who delivers on his advertising. I was with surfbest for 2 years, then suddenly began being dropped while downloading or connected at speeds below 28000kps. So I switched to gbronline. a month later the same thing started to occur. so I bit the bullet stopped looking for low cost ISPs and signed up with earthlink. Guess what? Out of the box they were far and away the worst of the lot.Ten available access numbers and I was dropped after less than 20 minutes on all of them plus sometimes connected at 16000kps. Aren't there any reliable ISPs out there any more?" ---------- If anybody there has suggestions they will pass it on... [Interesting, because I had checked out gbronline [about the same as NetHere or MSN], and was considering Earthlink until I heard it was not fast and reliable either. I just stick to my current one, sometimes good, sometimes bad.] thepccat To unsubscribe, send a message to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe juno_accmail" in the body or subject. OR visit //freelists.org ~*~