posted on December 10, 2000 06:17:04 PM
Blanche, Bluelight seems to work justfine. Using it right now. I did not download the Yahoo chat so don't have anything to undo! I don't like too many extras, keep it plain and simple! Less to go wrong!
They have lots of phone numbers in my area so that is good.Tried Juno's free service and it has too much stuff for me,also doesn't seem to want to work with the firewall. Have to get it off the hard drive now.
Goodvibrations, Right now we just can't afford to pay for an ISP.My husband has been downsized 3 times in the last five years and our income is 25% of what it used to be and with Ebay being slow we barely scrape by each month! I would love to be able to pay for a reliable service.Maybe in a few months, I am ever hopefull.I am really not cheap because I want to be.Necessity.
posted on December 10, 2000 09:25:42 PM
BlueLight seems to be going away!
I have been a "relatively" (in terms of, heck it's free, isn't it!, I guess I can't really complain) happy user of BlueLight since January 15th when I dropped Prodigy since Prodigy was sharing the same dial-up with Altavista free access and I could never get in (I was paying $18 a month to compete with the freeloaders)
Anyway, this weekend I tried to connect to BlueLight. It gave me the usual "We have new numbers, time to double check we still only have 1 number for you" rigamarole.
Anyway, much to my surprise, Guess what? They deleted ALL my numbers, and not just from my city.. nope, from my entire area code AND STATE.
I live in North Dakota, and they had access from 4 cities in 4 different LATA. All gone. Checked my neighbor zip code across the river in Minnesota... Nope... all 3 of those (which would have been LD anyway) were gone. Checked South Dakota... Nope... All gone.
So, I resorted to NetZero today.
I got my $69 MSN internet 1 year package on it's way from AccessMicro and hopefully after a year there will be some low cost competetors so I wont have to upgrade to $236 a year for them.
Anyone else have bluelight drop their city/area code/state???
posted on December 10, 2000 09:43:27 PM
Got an e-mail from Free Lane a couple of days ago that they were going down...got another today stating that they have a new partner...V 2.0 is now available, and Free...haven't checked it out yet, as I just use it for an AOHell back up.
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
posted on December 10, 2000 10:01:58 PMmrlatenite, did you check out the update alert on Bluelight's homepage? They have been changing the local access numbers and have listed the instructions for downloading the new phone book for your area.
posted on December 11, 2000 11:26:21 AM
Yes, I already downloaded the new phone book -- twice, once on Saturday and once again today.
They yanked all 701, 218, 612 and 605 (ND, SD, Northern MN) access points. There had been well over 4 per area code.. .all gone.
There are very few area codes that have any access anymore.
Tis a shame, but after exactly one year of trying them, I'm back to pay-for ISPs, and like I said above, at least now with nearly all the free isp's gone, I should finially be able to use the pay for dialup without competing with the free users on the same numbers. (Yes, it happens all the time--Prodigy+Altavista shared their access # in all cities in ND) That way, at least I'm getting more of my money's worth.
