Saw a news article saying once long time ISP has some problems. http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2007/08/27/daily20.html
I became an Earthlink customer when I needed modem dialing.... There were no DSL in 1996. I also liked to maintain a personal homepage... There were no blogging back then. I also needed a non-work email account! There were no hotmail or yahoo mail back then. I also needed to run a restaurant homepage, and it was quite expensive.
There were also no internet package bundle with phone company like AT&T+Yahoo DSL.
I picked Earthlink... the biggest player back then was America Online, but there were lots of problems in volume handling. I chose a more reliable 2nd place instead.
I was a happy customer. Easy install. Rarely have any problems.
I was Earthlink customer until I have a house and need a new phone line. Cheaper to bundle internet with phone service.
Now there seems to be less noise about choosing Internet Provider. Everyone go to big cable or phone companies for that now. ISP: perhaps you are also a dying industry, along with cassettes, VHS, films...
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Earthlink sucked and deserve to go under. The dial up was always busy, there was only one 630 number. I was on hold for about an hour to ditch Earthlink in 2002 and went with SBC.
Let the phone companies do it, there is no need for ISP's.
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