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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: America Online
Message-ID: <1989Nov18.164244.931@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 18 Nov 89 16:42:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: NCoast.1989Nov18.164244.931
References: <29969.2562DE85@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <29969.2562DE85@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> by Adam.Stein@f947.n107.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Stein):
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| twice but it seemed VERY SLOW. Has anyone else had speed problems. I am
| using a 2400 Hayes modem but the speed doesn't seem to be the modem
| transfer time but simply their system responding to the America Online
| software. Any comments?
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AOL customer support has posted a message (on AOL) stating in regards to speed
that they underestimated the demand on the host computers; they are in the
process of adding more and faster processors to rectify the problem.  They are
also redesigning the bulletin boards (IMHO, a good idea -- the current one is
one of those designs that looks good on paper but kills test pilots ;-) and
making other changes.  Stay tuned.

++Brandon
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