Hi David; as more and more users get internet savy, they back away
from major ISPs, and seek out local ones. I too surf over the MCI
OC12 backbone most of the time but it's via a local provider who rents the T1 and ties into bandwidth from MCI. Your luck with Sprint may have also been localized, there are places MCI does not stand out.
I'm from the old BBS days, and addicted to being on line. I use to
build clones but stoped as profit went down next to nothing, I can
slap together a box a little cheaper than the major players but won't
make much doing it, as I can't get parts as cheap as they can.
I mention this, to say I still do part time "end user support work"
on my own as a service tech ; if you can catch me.
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I wire up a few networks, and do set up work for small companies
that can't afford a full time computer guru. In doing that I also
get some perks, like there is not a local ISP that I don't have
free access to..for dial in and surfing, while I have two
seperate paid accounts, if for some reason they are down or the
modems are tied up..I have four more I can get on line with.
With all that said, there are none that don't at times have
problems, but all their problems put together are not as bad as
the stuff I'v personally seen with AOL.
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Man if I dialed into a service I paid for and was hit in the face
with adds, I'd want to bust someone in the teeth. People won't
put up with that once they catch onto what a real ISP is for.
BTW , my paid for accounts are $ 14.95 a month unlimited access,
and there is nothing on AOL worth a crap that I can't get else
where for free, and with less hassel.
Jim
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