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Gold/Mining/Energy : InfoInterActive Inc (IIA-ASE) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thomas gentry who wrote (1034)	9/23/1999 5:50:00 AM
From: Don Johnstone	Respond to of 1622

Thomas, you should be on IIA's marketing board! ;>) I myself have succumbed to the siren pull of Bell's HSE - High Speed Edition, and now fork over $39.95/month to Ma Bell to satisfy my desire for speed AND simultaneous phone/internet capability, which was absolutely needed to keep peace and tranquility in OUR household. I guess I am resigned to the gradual erosion of IIA's customer base by such systems as HSE, and will have to rely on the frugality of most, I hope, who will choose to remain with ICM, because they don't spend the multitude of hours like myself on the internet. At some point, however, as one sits watching and waiting for a page to download, the penny drops and you say ENOUGH, and order the XDSL version, regardless of price! I put it in myself and only had to phone Bell twice to try to get the thing working properly. And ultimately disregarded Bell's suggestions which were getting me nowhere and did it my way! It's now working like a charm! My first problem was I don't have a CD for Windows 95, and that caused me an initial failure until I learned to provide a link to my hard drive for the info on Windows 95 when asked to insert my non-existent disk. The second problem was every time I rebooted, frequently during software installation, my system automatically detected the new hardware and would repeatedly go into ITS routine for providing drivers as it thought best which were not the ones BELL required, provided on a floppy. Anyway I finally outfoxed both Bell and IBM, and now am as happy as a clam when on the internet and my wife is on the phone whenever she so chooses. Thanks to the marvels on modern technology. I surely hope there are not TOO many like us, Thomas, who succumb, or IIA is in trouble. Hopefully those additional ICM features, and innate frugality will keep the ICM customer base high and even growing for years to come. Cheers, Don