Cox Signs Deal to Offer AOL Web Service

[JuniorHarris]

Cox Signs Deal to Offer AOL Web Service (http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010612/wr/tech_cox_aol_dc_2.html)

[ihelpyou]

I wonder if they will still want to control what their members surf?

I pay $49 a month for dsl. They will probably charge higher as they do on dial-up.

Kinda funny that TW is a cable provider but yet AOL cannot use them yet, hence the 6 month trial with Cox.

I have had bad experiences with Cox in other states and certainly would not want to try their high-speed access.

AOL and TW's emphasis seems to be on connection and advertising and tv and portal stuff. Really no words on anything about the search service.

[JuniorHarris]

Yes, I thought it ironic that AOL/TW is being forced to allow Earthlink to complete their DSL offerings prior to allowing AOL to do such. It will be interesting to see what happens when the restraint is lifted from AOL, and to see if AOL continues the proxy routing through Virginia for it's cable subscribers.

$40/month for DSL here.

[ihelpyou]

Where are you? That is a good price.

[JuniorHarris]

I was on a waiting list for many months waiting for the service to become available...I had been using ISDN which was very pricey, so they may have had sympathy with me!~ The price is actually $39.95 for DSL service from Mindspring/Earthlink here in Metro Atlanta. I suppose I could have a discount from being one of the early subscribers...

[Web Witch]

I hate AOL (a-o-holes) , glad I moved from MindSpring long ago. I wonder who actually owns my cable/modem service, Adelphia.com.

<searching>

They're an independant, I wonder when the BIG buyout will happen? There pretty good, when it was Prestige and the got switched to Adelphia I was having a problem connecting. Well I bit**ed all the way to NY because I had deduced that the problem was on the poll across the street. They were out in a couple of hours and straighten me out. They have had problems with the GA connection and something about Sprint backbone, I think....I've gotten a couple of free months with them because I don't like being a *test* ground.

Pay them $40/mo.:hi:

[ihelpyou]

Geezee, a few of us within a few hours of each other. ......very strange indeedie..... :sleep:

[ihelpyou]

Chris is from around here also. :eek:

[Web Witch]

The Southern Connection

I was with Netsomethingorother before Mindspring.

Anybody remember when all that was really out there was CompuServe, The Source, and Delphi? Boy I'm I dating myself....I was the 800 # for Delphi in Boston, real heavy tec questions, baud rate, parity and all that stuff. :5: Before that I ran and designed a computer lab at the local college....that was the dawn....Apple IIe, DecMates and IBM PC....must have been '81. <thinking>.

20 years later I'm over here this is crazy I don't even think of putting in a board in my computer now-a-days; let the hubby do it....sheesh!

:together:

[JuniorHarris]

Originally started in 1969 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the net consisted of just 4 computers linked together from different sites to exchange military research information. By 1972, the DARPANET had become the ARPANET and consisted of 37 computers. In 1983, MILNET was set up for the exclusive use of the military and the ARPANET began to be opened up to the world of universities and various scientific bodies. Essentially, the ARPANET can be viewed as the embryo from which the INTERNET grew - (ARPANET (http://ntrg.cs.tcd.ie/4ba2/network/roger/arpanet.html))