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From: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Christopher Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: American Online vs. other Services
Message-ID: <8354@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 90 16:22:32 GMT
References: <519@janus.Quotron.com> <38488@apple.Apple.COM> <1195@pmafire.UUCP> <1328@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Reply-To: macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Christopher Silverberg)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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In article <1328@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) writes:
>As a followup to others who have read this above mis-information, in
>the past year GEIS has been upgrading its network to all tri-speed modems,
>which means 2400-1200-300 baud service at any local Genie access. Also
>at the same time this eliminated any surcharged lines, there are none
>anymore. So when you call GEnie at 2400 you are paying $10 an hour and
>thats it, provided of course you do have a local call access. So chances
> .... (deleted)

Still, this is my biggest complaint with GEnie... they charge extra for 2400
baud service... which encourages me to stick with using 1200 baud over 2400
baud because of the savings. I am encouraged by AOL's policy regarding
modem speeds..."the faster, the better" (granted, there probably aren't any
9600 telnet connections, but 2400 baud at $5 per hour is pretty good!)




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