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Post February 12th, 2004, 5:18 pm

finally I have a different ISP. Instead of aol I have cheetah (name of the cable connection in my area) Im so glad to get rid of aol. it was really fun F*ckin wit the AOL Tech. the guy was asking me what I do when Im on the internet. and I was like, Im usually working on a website because I help alot of people and have a few of my own, but newayz I started talking about html and perl and he was like wooh, your way over my head. I cant understand a word your sayin.. it was so fun.. :D
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Post February 12th, 2004, 5:18 pm

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Post February 12th, 2004, 5:26 pm

Yeah, AOL tech support isn't exactly great.

A client of mine was using AOL dialup at home (he's since switched to cable), and when he was attempting to send E-Mails out through his private E-Mail address (him@hisdomain.com) which is supposed to go through my SMTP server, AOL's SMTP server was intercepting it (I guess they intercept all outgoing port 25 connections), sometimes sending it out to the intended recipients, sometimes bouncing back to him, and sometimes disappearing into the void that we affectioniately call /dev/null.

He called up AOL tech support. "We do not have any SMTP servers sir" was their reply. Even though telnetting directly to my SMTP server's port 25 produced a "Welcome to the AOL SMTP Server" message (or rather a technical equivalent involving a hostname that contained the words "mail" "smtp" and "aol.com", heh).

He switched to cable within 3 days, and now is trouble-free :)
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Post February 12th, 2004, 9:12 pm

Shouldn't it be like:

"You've got SMTP!"

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Post February 12th, 2004, 9:47 pm

hmmm unfortunatly we are still on aol dial-up, but Someone gave me a free account awhile back for like 6 months. I think I am now on month 8? I wonder if he realized that he was going to have to eventually pay for it.

But anyway yeah, after taxes this year we are getting cable, can't wait.
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Post February 12th, 2004, 11:44 pm

nothing like cable, I've been on it for 3yrs, and i'm never going
back.
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Post February 13th, 2004, 5:43 am

We have like 4 computers here that we all use regularly. So we are also going to have to buy a roughter. I love buying computer equipment, and dammit, they deserve it too!
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Post February 13th, 2004, 7:08 am

I've been on cable for about 2 years and I absolutely love it, especially when the ISP upgrades the speed about every 8 months or so.
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Post February 13th, 2004, 7:50 am

UNFLUX wrote:
nothing like cable, I've been on it for 3yrs, and i'm never going
back.


What do you mean with "cable" which speed and which technology? :oops:
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Post February 13th, 2004, 12:17 pm

im on 150k cable...

beats 56k so its got to be better lol
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Post February 13th, 2004, 4:33 pm

my cable is 1 megabit/second.. ha ha.. like 10x faster than yours
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Post February 13th, 2004, 4:42 pm

I'm at 3 Mbps now after a recent upgrade. A bunch of us compared speeds using an online applet a little while ago. The results should still be viewable.

http://www.ozzu.com/general-discussion/how-you-connect-the-internet-t19808.html&hi ... t+internet
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Post February 13th, 2004, 8:51 pm

Iv been on cable for 1 yr and its sooo much better than dileup anyday
I went to my friends house he has dileup OMG it was slow
before we switched to cable i had aol and i told there tec guy to **** of lolololol so.....

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