Re: Comp.Sys.Apple2

[den246@hotmail.com (Dennis in San Diego)]

CUTjblakeney@sentex.net (Jeff Blakeney) wrote in message news:<3d98dd7a.1079390@news.sentex.net>...
> On 29 Sep 2002 17:48:01 -0700, andrew.roughan@writeme.com (Roughana)
> wrote:
> 
> >I use Google Groups and receive the associated influx of junk emails
> >as a consequence of composing messages. If anyone knows of a web based
> >newsgroup posting agent that doesn't publish email addresses, will you
> >please let me know?
> 
> I can't help you there.  I don't like using the web for any kind of
> message base reading.  This is why I'm trying to finish off my off
> line reader for Syndicomm.  There is web based access but I just can't
> stand using it.  This is also why I only go to Delphi once a week now,
> too.  :-)
> 
> >When I have a stable and usable Marinetti environment, I'll be
> >continuing development of my Apple IIgs newsreader.
> 
> That's good to hear.  I still have plans to write a newsreader for the
> IIgs but as I still haven't finished my e-mail client, it would be
> nice if someone else would fill in the gap for me.  I'm notoriously
> slow at getting things done but I'm sure most everyone already knows
> that.  :-)
> 
> >My stable and usable Marinetti environment is slowly getting closer to
> >reality.
> 
> I need to get Marinetti running on my IIgs again.  I'm back on dialup
> again as I'm out in the middle of nowhere now and the only high speed
> connection available is a little too expensive for my tastes.

One thing I was very interested in was shotgun technology, or
multi-link, or multichannel -- where you use two phone lines to
approximately double your current connection speed.  You need two
phone lines, two modems, and an ISP that supports that technology.  I
understand it isn't perfect, but if you can find an ISP that is good,
and supports that technology without charging a lot more, then it can
be worth it.  What I found exciting was exactly your situation -- it
would be better than satellite, and not always on like cable or DSL. 
I finally went with cable again, but only because of a deep discount
package if you took all 3 services with them, and they said they had
fixed their old problems which is why I quit cable to begin with.

I was trying hard to find feedback on someone that had done this,
after reading the book "an Idiot's guide to high speed internet
access" and finally found a person that had used this, and it worked
fairly well for him. Also, one of the 2 phones can be your phone line
-- if you pick up the phone, the computer goes back to one phone line,
when you hang up, it speeds up again using two phone lines.