>From my experience with Juno in the last month since we got home Nov 7,
juno shortened messages when you download two at a time. #207 only
produced the first message, the rest was lost in cyber space.
We changed to juno for our summer trip. It was a bust on the road because
juno's local numbers are in larger towns, where most RV parks are not. At
least the ones we stayed at. In some western states where the same area
code is for the whole state, any phone call just outside of the major
town is long distance. Credit cards accepted. In talking with juno, juno
is set up to service major consumer purchasing areas, which is their
advertisers business. Less than 10% of the parks we stayed at this
summer had local phone jacks for Internet connections. At those parks,
the people with local or 800 access numbers plugged in. Some charged $1
to use the phone jack. The 800 FMCA message center was available at
every pay phone. It even worked on our cell phone, even though they say
it doesn't. Internet has not arrived in a lot of the small towns and
back country yet because the local volume will not support it. Goblestar
for digital e-mail will change that, but that is in the near future.
We will be changing out of juno next week and going to Gateway/AOL,
supplied with our new Gateway computer. We'll keep the net posted on how
that works out for our stationary home use. Road runner (cable) at
$600/year for a fast web is more than we think we need. If it were a
business write off - - - .
juno shortened messages when you download two at a time. #207 only
produced the first message, the rest was lost in cyber space.
We changed to juno for our summer trip. It was a bust on the road because
juno's local numbers are in larger towns, where most RV parks are not. At
least the ones we stayed at. In some western states where the same area
code is for the whole state, any phone call just outside of the major
town is long distance. Credit cards accepted. In talking with juno, juno
is set up to service major consumer purchasing areas, which is their
advertisers business. Less than 10% of the parks we stayed at this
summer had local phone jacks for Internet connections. At those parks,
the people with local or 800 access numbers plugged in. Some charged $1
to use the phone jack. The 800 FMCA message center was available at
every pay phone. It even worked on our cell phone, even though they say
it doesn't. Internet has not arrived in a lot of the small towns and
back country yet because the local volume will not support it. Goblestar
for digital e-mail will change that, but that is in the near future.
We will be changing out of juno next week and going to Gateway/AOL,
supplied with our new Gateway computer. We'll keep the net posted on how
that works out for our stationary home use. Road runner (cable) at
$600/year for a fast web is more than we think we need. If it were a
business write off - - - .
