Hi Henry,

It's not your imagination, at least not all of it. For a while I've noticed fewer, if any, disconnects, though the sign-in time has been longer, and the bps has gone from something like 38,000 to a pretty regular 50,667.

The weirdest thing, however, is that I contacted them a couple of days before my free year was scheduled to expire, just to make sure I didn't start receiving unexpected bills, and they told me I have another two years credited to my account! In any event, by Friday (FedEx and AT&T willing) I'll have cable broadband, so that'll be pretty much moot.

Even with the added years, I haven't liked MSN one bit. They seem to be in a race with AOL to see who can offer the worst product. That's just my opinion, of course.

Richard

Dimension 4100
Pentium III, 933 MHz
20GB Ultra ATA-100 Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
256MB 133MHz SDRAM
Windows ME
17" M781s Monitor
32MB NVIDIA TNT2 M64 AGP Graphics Card
48X Max Variable CD-ROM Drive
QPS Que! 16x10x40 CD-RW Drive
Soundblaster 64V PCI with Dell Jukebox
harman/kardon Speakers
V.90/56K Telephony Modem for WindowsME-Sound Option
QuietKey Keyboard
MS Intellimouse
Xerox Docuprint M750 Inkjet Printer

And they have too many pop-up and pop under ads at times. Tried complaining but that was a laugh.

The extra speed allows more advertising I guess.

Hi Jake,

If you use PopUp Stopper, available free here, you won't see another popup (or popunder) unless you want to.

Richard

Dimension 4100
Pentium III, 933 MHz
20GB Ultra ATA-100 Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
256MB 133MHz SDRAM
Windows ME
17" M781s Monitor
32MB NVIDIA TNT2 M64 AGP Graphics Card
48X Max Variable CD-ROM Drive
QPS Que! 16x10x40 CD-RW Drive
Soundblaster 64V PCI with Dell Jukebox
harman/kardon Speakers
V.90/56K Telephony Modem for WindowsME-Sound Option
QuietKey Keyboard
MS Intellimouse
Xerox Docuprint M750 Inkjet Printer

my speed has been suffering though, i dont know yet if it is m.s.n. or my telephone line with all the things i have connected to it, i posted in the modem and fax forum on 2-3 02 under (to many things) and got some good tips of what i should do next, i never knew before that your bandwidth speed on a 56k modem has alot to do with what you have connected to that one phone line besides the modem. i have to many things.on the line, i plan to disconnect every thing and do another bandwidth test and check out the difference.
thanks fellas for any more input, sincerly - henryhll

windows M E
8100 p4 1.3
128 rdram.
nothing else special.
but special to me.