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"What do you think of the merger between AOL and Time Warner?"

Started 6/15/2007 by Ray Bay in Stuff Forum      (6 posts)  

1/10/2000 (2:21 pm) by admin Staff    

(24314 Posts)

AOL and Time Warner have agreed to merge. What do you think about it?


1/10/2000 (4:50 pm) by Anonymous    

(1082 Posts)

>By the way, before the market even opened, Time Warner was up 30 points. How can I get in on that?

You would have had to have bought it Last Week!

>Have you had any trouble getting broadband delivered?

Yes. I've trying to get DSL at my house for about a year. My BellAtlantic rep keeps telling me that they'll check; please hold. Then they get back on the line and say they'll e-mail me an answer. Then they say "try again next month."

It seems I'm too far from the CO as well. If everyone's too far out, why do they even advertise their service? They ran a full-page ad in the NY Times. I live about 10 miles from New York City. Who were they expecting to read the ad?


1/10/2000 (7:22 pm) by admin Staff    

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Broadband problems? Definitely. I live on the wrong end of a fiber link, and US Worst has no intention of installing a mini-DSLAM so that the people on my end can talk to the DSL ISPs on the other end. However, I did get cable modem, and I am really happy I did, now that I've had a chance to compare my cable modem versus the DSL at work.

US Worst lost not only my DSL business, we also dropped the second phone line and my wife's account (because @home gives us 3 e-mail addresses, USWest is now redundant). I figure my net cost is now $10/month LESS than it was with 2 ISP accounts and a dedicated phone line (I pay $39.95 for the basic service, plus an additional $4.95 each for 2 extra static IPs, which aren't required but I like it that way).

So, I wonder if some of the DSL availability issues might not be just a telco who doesn't give a rip...


1/10/2000 (8:54 pm) by DragonMan    

(3 Posts)

It's strange but alot of sites and media talk like everybody already has broad band. I live in a subburb of DC and I can't get DSL and I'm only 8800 feet from the substation (according to I don' want to shell the bucks for a cable modem cause I've got Direct TV (Which Rocks!) But the main reason I'm writing this is to advise against geting a Sat dish for the net. I've read in Maximum PC and other places that Hughes (The sat dish provider) will restrict your speed the more you use it. So basicly if you buy it to be a "GEEK" and do a lot of big downloads (I don't know what other market would buy it.) they restrict your access to as slow as 30-40 kbs. Slower than 56K! Not to mention you still have to use your phone line for uploads. And the per minute charges. Thats my Dime


1/11/2000 (6:25 pm) by Anonymous    

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High-Speed "Internet" for AOL users? Say it aint so!

The majority of AOL'ers have no idea of how limiting thier "easy to use" AOL accounts are. What the hell is your average AOL user going to download that needs broadband?


1/12/2000 (3:17 am) by Anonymous    

(1082 Posts)

Time to look for a dsl provider. AOLers on my cable network!!! Arrrgh