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- From: dons@olympus.net (Don Schmelling)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT&T Worldnet Launched today!
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 16:59:58 PST
- Organization: Internet for the Olympic Peninsula
- Message-ID: <19960228.11B2958.FA30@olympus.net>
- References: <96058.220149GREMS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
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- GREMS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU wrote:
- : Initialy, there will be 200 POPs (points of presence) nationwide
- : (why can't they just say "Nodes"?). They will shunt your dial in to
- : any node that is under utilized should they experiance congestion at
- : any one node. So, as the sales rep told me, you shouldn't have those
- : slow downs in service at peak demand times that you sometimes get
- : with local ISPs. They will also have an 800 # with friendly AT&T
- : assistance on the other end to help you with any problems (wait till
- : I call them for help configuring AmiTCP-4.0 & Mosaic 2.0 for my
- : OMEGA 4000 computer (lets see: how many seconds are they allowed to
- : be on any one call?).
- :
- I thought that this was going to start as a Windows only solution.
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