OK, now they’ve really done it. I finally got on the ball with the free ISPs, Freewwweb and WorldSpy. (I had to do this at work because i got DSL and couldn’t use my dial-up anymore without being charged by the hour…no fuckin’ way!) I had them all set up and tweaked just right so I didn’t have to see banners or go to their start page or anything. Life was beautiful. And then, then, I logged on yesterday and, lo and behold, it says that JUNO (the bastards) have taken over both of these ISPs I use. Crap!
So, I download the software, which sucks, hook it all up, and get the shitty banner now, which sucks, bad, and the connection dies and lags repeatedly!!! The damn ad bar is in my way all the time, the software gives me the BSOD all the time, in short, it bite my ass, big time!
I know, I know, it’s free, I can’t complain. But, still, I hate you, Juno.
Absolutely you can complain. It’s the company that claims to be providing this great service. If they suck, they suck.
[redneck]
Complaining is my God-given American right, dammit! Ain’t no one gonna tell me I cain’t be complainin’!!
[/redneck]
Thats kinda funny. I was messing with my computer this morning and realized I had an old winmodem tucked in there. So I decided to install the software for it. I look around on the web for a free internet service and I came upon Juno.
I installed Juno…piece of cake, got on the internet no problem. It does have an ad bar at the top… right beside the Print …Edit buttons on IE 5. If you have a 19’ monitor, it is barely noticeable.
Anyways, it’s not that bad. I thought this free internet thing would be cool in case my cable modem ever went offline for whatever reason…nice to have a back-up in case.
I sure wouldn’t want to use it everyday, thats for sure.
I use regular $9.95 a month Juno and its fine. Nothing special with a 56K, but its better than AOL. Juno sent us a CD-ROM telling us to try their new free service. The banners were incredibly annoying, so I ditched it and went back to the basic service.
But you can tweak Juno a little bit, you know. Mostly change Internet Tools so as NOT to display pictures or videos. On my machine, at least, it takes it forever to load and display the banner graphics, and it gives first priority to those, so turning off the pictures speeds things up a tiny bit (although it means I can’t see the smilies, just the placeholders).
Also, when Juno is just having one of Those Days, when it takes forever to load, or when the thing just gets hopelessly screwed up, it sometimes helps to just give up and Restart the whole computer.
Also, always compose long replies in WordPad or something, so when the Reply window hangs, you don’t have to start over.
Also, I get a lot of use out of Control-Alt-Delete to bring up the Task Manager and see exactly what it is that’s gumming up the works this time. Sometimes it’ll say “Juno–not responding”, then I can tell it to End Task and it’ll say, “Okay” cheerfully, and then I can start over.
But like the man said, “You get what you pay for.” :: sigh ::
I’m not as computer-addicted as I thought… I clicked on this wondering what the hell kinda problem Dem could possibly have with Roman mythology. Didn’t even cross my mind that it would be about that ISP.
and I noticed that it only does this on the 56k connections. The 33.6k connections are solid.