AOL - High Speed Cable

[John Lindinger]

...RoadRunner dial in service (at dial in speeds, of course).  Good to know.  Thanks for
the tip,

John Lindinger

--- zscoundrel <zscoundrel at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> You will not see AOL high speed offered through TW cable access in a 
> market until Road Runner - or whomever the default ISP partner was when 
> TW started connecting broad band consumers - no longer holds a monopoly 
> in that area.
> 
> An example would be de-regulation in the local telco industry.  SWB 
> wants to get into the long distance business, but can't do so until the 
> other local phone companies have at least 20% of the market.  Suddenly - 
> BANG - there are billboards up all over town advising us to "fire" SWB 
> and hire Birch, and if you look in the front of the phone book there are 
> ADDs and contact info for OTHER PHONE COMPANIES!!!!  (Note: SWB is now 
> known as SBC corp.)
> 
> I believe the FCC required TW to open the ISP market to the competition 
> as part of the agreement to let AOL and TW merger.  This is why our Road 
> Runner accounts didn't automatically become AOL accounts the day after 
> the merger!  If you happen to visit some place that has a modern cable 
> system that is not TW - you may see AOL being offered as an ISP via 
> cable modem.
> 
> I am not going to flame someone for using AOL, but I will point out that 
> Road Runner offers a dial up access option - which is currently FREE - 
> to their high speed customers, so AOL is not a requirement for access on 
> the road.
> 
>   Here is the link:
> 
>
http://help.rr.com/getpage.asp?/faqs/e_dial_access_overview.html?topic=Dial+Access#pricing
> 
> 
> 
> I am still waiting for Everest to bring fiber to my back door.  One of 
> the neighbors works for them and said (unofficially) that they should be 
> in our area by the end of the year.  High Speed access, Voice, and 
> Video.  Since it is buried, there should be no storm or drunk driver 
> related outages to contend with.
> 
> 
> 
> John Lindinger wrote:
> 
> > You may be mixing apples and oranges. The AOL High Speed Broadband link presently on
> the
> > www.aol.com page is selling DSL telephone service, not cable modem service.
> > 
> > Seems that the "Time Warner" half of "AOL Time Warner" has no intention of bundling
> AOL
> > subscriptions with the RoadRunner high speed digital cable service. THAT'S GOOD!!!
> > 
> > Anybody who wants cable modem service, can have it without an AOL subscription.  If
> any
> > RoadRunner user really wants to routinely hear that "You've Got Mail" jingle, they
> can
> > get the $14.95/month AOL "bring-your-own-access " plan.  That's option #3 at...
> > 
> >    http://www.aol.com/info/pricing.html
> > 
> > By the way, now that I've shut off my dial-up ISP account, it's not as easy to
> connect my
> > laptop to the internet when I travel, unless the hotel has an ethernet connection in
> the
> > room (some do but it costs extra). 
> > 
> > So silly as it sounds, having the AOL software on my laptop, though not "cool", can
> be
> > useful, because AOL does have access telephone numbers all over the country. I used
> AOL
> > in the mid nineties for this very reason. The bring your own access plan was only
> > $10/month then, and they charged by the hour when I did dial in on their telephone
> from a
> > motel.
> > 
> > John Lindinger
> > 
> > PS - Okay, let the flames begin...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- jose sanchez <j_r_sanchez at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi:
> >>
> >>What you guys think about AOL-High Speed Cable.
> >>Has anybody tried it?
> >>
> >>
> >>
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