#PAR on network?
>>and generally have more free fun than anywhere else!
It must be all in how you connect. My account charges $3 per hour for a 6 hour
account and while I can connect to CIS for a week and a half in an hour of
download time, the internet requires I remain online for two hours or more per
session just to do anything worthwhile. This can get expensive. I do agree
that there is much more to find on the Internet but really haven't found a way
to work it effectively yet. I have a 14,400 baud modem and can work many BBS
at that speed but the Internet only runs at 9600 here. Their tech support
can't figure why. They say my windows only supports 9600, although I can use
14400 on other BBS's
I use Netscape and Cello. Cello is very buggy with lots of GPF errors.
Netscape works but many times it can't open a server; I wait and wait and then
it just gives me a message that it is unable to open or try again later stuff.
Meanwhile I have just spent 50% of my connect charges waiting. The only saving
grace is my account has free access between midnight and 6 AM once you use up
the 6 hours per month during the day. I used up my first month's 6 hours just
trying to log on, locate the cello and Netscape, and download it just to use
the Internet. I've been told the real way to use the Internet connection is
with Unix to get the speed. I guess that's how you connect, since you don't do
windows. <G>
To prove how reliable it is for E-mail, I sent you 5 E-mail messages within the
past week and you never got them because I know you would have replied if you
did.I sent them to Gpyros@pyros.com They were just test messages to check out
the reliability of the Internet. I posted a message (called article) on one
newsgroup and received a half dozen responses. I tried it on another newsgroup
and Netscape says it can't locate the newsgroup. I wonder just how many
responses were really sent to me that got lost. I find CIS just plain more
reliable even though it has far less variety. Now I've been told to get
Eudora for e-mail. I searched for it but only found the Manual, not the
shareware program. Couldn't find any reference to the actual program. There
went another hour searching. Now I know why they call it surfing the net.
Most of the time I'm riding on my modem surf board waiting for the right wave
to come along. <BG>
Guess we disagree on this, at least for now.