[P1] sbc yahoo dsl

[John Paul Moore]

I cannot get dsl in my neighborhood because I live in an old 
subdivision with old phone lines Bell never bothered to replace, so I 
use my only broadband choice, a cable modem. I did, however, try to 
help a friend set up his imac on sbc/yahoo last year. I say I tried to 
help him because the best we could do, after two hours on the phone 
with tech support, was a stupid kludge that let him use netscape mail 
but not explorer mail or mac mail and the tech couldn't even tell us 
why. For some reason, instead of just a live dsl line, this ungodly 
sbc/yahoo combination needlessly complicated the set up, which had to 
be web based. It was beyond bizarre. My friend, on my advice and the 
assurance of sbc tech support that things were not likely to get any 
better any time soon, switched to earthlink broadband the next day and 
has seemed reasonably happy with it. At least he gets to use his mac 
mail client and address book. These two corporations may have gotten 
their act better together from last year, but at that point, it sucked 
and real bad too. hth, jpm


On Jan 13, 2004, at 6:16 PM, Linda van Thiel wrote:

> I've been thinking about switching to dsl - at work too much since it 
> is a fast connection. Earthlink dsl is $50 per month (now paying $23? 
> for dial-up).  I heard about SBC (aka ameritech/ ma bell) which is my 
> current phone service, from someone at work.  DSL with them and Yahoo 
> is only $27 per month - just a hair over what I am payiing for my slow 
> modem connection. Plus you get a $99 rebate which for the first year 
> brings it down to $18 per month.  For that low price I could even 
> afford to run both for a month to get everything switched over.
>
> Anyone have any experience with this?
>
> Linda (glad to have a .mac account now)
> SE MI
>
>
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