NEW WEB PORTAL

[frank_f15]

came across this in the paper yesterday, new web portal that is trying to knock off yahoo. checked it out and seems very nice. no banner ads, no pop ups, and their privacy policy is short and sweet. the site loads in 3 or 4 sec. they even have a feature that tell u how long it took the page to load. the guy that runs it had something to do with excite so it seems to have a lot of excites layout. just thought i would pass this on to anyone that is interested. have no connections with them, if u would like to check it out go to<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.myway.com/>http://www.myway.com/</A>. let me know what u guys think.

 

[Bird]

Looks like that might be useful.

<font color=blue>the site loads in 3 or 4 sec. they even have a feature that tell u how long it took the page to load.</font color=blue>

0.39 seconds! Love this broadband./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[frank_f15]

BIRD : would love to get broadband, but a little to pricy up this way , at least for me right now.

 

[northcreek2624]

Frank check out Beefer's Bar and Grille,I think they had a broadband playing there the other night.......Mike

PS And no cover charge!

 

[Mosey]

frank_f15 - I've been using Yahoo for a lot of stuff, so I'll see how this compares. Thanks for the info.

Bird - What is "broadband"? I heard you had some kind of injury or something, it's good to see you back!

I got on the web at home 2 1/2 months ago. I'm still on the AOL 3 month free trial, which is too expensive so I need to find something else before the trial is up in 2 weeks. Any suggestions? I will only be on for about and hour a day average at home, since I still hook up at work most of the time. The cheapest I've found in this area so far is tls.net, which has a 300 minute limit per month for $15/month. I don't need 300 minutes a month, so is there something cheaper?

 

[Mosey]

I like their statement "The Internet was once touted as the information superhighway. Instead of a superhighway, it has become more like an expressway at rush hour: slow moving and filled with obstacles, requiring that you navigate through the unwanted and the unexpected."

So far I pretty much like what I see. I got an email address for me, my wife, and the kids before they all get reserved by someone else (for example I wanted an email address at yahoo called "dyerks" and it was already used). They need to work on their spell checker though, I typed in:

test
tset two

and it said there were no misspelled words! Also, they advertise a free 6MB web mail account, which actually turns out to be 5MB.

I'm getting pretty irritated with the ads at yahoo, so I hope myway is successful. But, they're going up against a giant just like the XFL did and the XFL didn't last long!

 

[frank_f15]

danny: hope the site works out for all our sakes, i too am fed up with yahoo and excite. about you isp(u are right AOL) is expensive. i use a local isp , $14 a month and no time limit., never get a busy signal and in the time i have been using them i can count on one hand when he had a problem. 300 min.(5 hrs) a month is not much for $15 a month.

 

[cstocks]

I agree w/ Frank. 300 min. per month is a rip... I pay $10 a month for unlimited dial up and connect on the first try about 95% of the time.

 

[Mosey]

Oops, my fingers totally botched what my mind was thinking when I said "I don't need 300 minutes a month". I will probably want to get on the net about 1 hour a day, so I'll need about 30 hours or 1800 minutes a month. The best deal I've found is $17/mo for unlimited. I don't need unlimited though. $10/mo or even $14/mo for unlimited sure sounds great!

Are you pre-paying a year or more in advance to get the $10/mo and $14/mo rates?

 

[cstocks]

I had to pay a sign up fee of $20-30 but have no annual contract. My contract is month to month.

 

[frank_f15]

iam paying 6 mo. in advance for $14 a month, i could save a$1 a month with annual pay, but feel more comfortable with 6 mo. payment. strange how different areas of the country have such different rates for isp. same with extra phone line for computer. here it is like having to seperate phone lines $35. a month for extra line, my friend thos in anothe state pays $12 FOR 2ND LINE. needless to say i only have 1 line./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Bird]

Been out of town a few days, Danny. I'm sure a lot of the other guys can better explain what "broadband" is than I could. All I know is it uses the same type coax as the cable TV, you're always online (no dialing and waiting; no second phone line, etc. and it's much, much faster).

I see some of the other guys have mentioned what they pay for Internet service. I'd been paying $19.95 a month for unlimited access to Internet America in Dallas, and then I was also paying for a second phone line. I see there's a considerable regional difference in that price also (and wonder whether the prices include all the charges). My phone bill showed the second residential line to be $14.20 a month, but after they tack on the "Interstate Subscriber Line Charge, Expanded Local Calling" and a bunch of other fees, taxes, etc. (none of which are "optional"), it actually was over $21 a month. In fact, two lines (with the only option being "call waiting" on one of them) was costing $48.40 a month.

Of course the broadband service is going to cost even more/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif, but I've forgotten exactly what they told me (and threw away the notes I made at the time), and haven't gotten the first bill yet./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[bky]

here try this and see if its what you need url/http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&cf=cj&AID=6301784&PID=1169253 url/

 

[bncsauve]

I recommend outdrs.net. They might cost a couple dollars more, but they support hunting and fishing rights. Its the only site that I know that does.

Bob

 

[Mosey]

bky - Thanks, but when I checked for access numbers in my area I got the message "Unfortunately there are no local access numbers in your area". Just my luck!

 

[Mosey]

They still have some problems to work out at MyWay. I opened up an email account to try it out and it times out in just a few minutes, which is a nuisance. They said they're working on the problem, but it's been 3 days and they still haven't fixed it. They're going to lose out on a lot of customers if they don't fix it soon!