Posted on 04/21/2002 3:18:26 PM PDT by Conservababe
Hello
I have been using a local isp for years but have recently changed over to cable via Charter Pipeline.
I am now concerned with establishing an e-mail access account via cable. I have talked to Charter and they are no help whatsoever.
I dislike the freebies such as Hotmail and such, but what other options are open? I cannot afford to keep the isp account solely for e-mail access.
So, I am wondering how you cable users establish an e-mail account?
Your POP3 server is pop.charterXX.net
Where XX is the 2 letter state abbreviation for your state of residence.
Your SMTP server is mail.charterXX.net
Your account name and password are just the ones that Charter gave to you for your Internet Access Account.
FreepMail me if you need more info or help.
Open a "freebie" account at Hot Mail, Yahoo, or such for everything else!
My question is, what do I use as a spellchecker for OE on the iMac? I don't need or want MS Word. Some of this stuff is over the head of my 13 year old grandson and that scares me.
You are scared? My word, your tech talk has scared the beejeezes out of me, for sure. LOL
We recently went to cable from dialup, but have had nothing but problems. The cable TV service (Direct Digital) is a separate company from the internet broadband service (BroadbandNow). When the cable TV goes out (as it often does), we lose our internet connection. Then both "services" point fingers at each other and nothing gets fixed.
Dialup was slow at 28.8 (yup! 28.8 on these lousy phone lines), but at least it was reliable. DSL is not available due to something called "pair gain" on our phone lines. And satellite dish broadband is just too expensive.
Good luck with your cable connection & e-mail. I hope your experience is better than ours has been.
Yes, indeed, I love being a Freeper.We can always depend on each other for help.
My cable company does not seem to have the problems that effected them in the earlier years in downtime because of a thunder storm. I am just hoping that they can keep up with technology of their promises of internet access with minimal problems.
That's what I was gonna say when I read your original question.
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