[jimkress]

You already have an email account. It's with Charter.

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.

[hole_n_one]

Charter Pipeline pages detailing how to set up an e-mail account using.........

Netscape

Outlook Express

[Budge]

Use your Charter e-mail account for close personal friends.

Open a "freebie" account at Hot Mail, Yahoo, or such for everything else!

[tubebender]

I just went through this with Cox Cable last week. Getting on the web was easy but Outlook Express took 4 days because I have a new iMac Flat panel G4. IE runs in OSX but OE runs in Classic (OS9). The real problem turned out to be TWO temporary passwords assigned by Cox. The Local tech finally jarred my memory about the second password and corrected it. I still don't have my C80 Epson printer drivers installed for eMail. (OS9). Next I have to install the Linkys Router/firewall and do the settings all over again. Then I'll do the Norton SystemWorks.

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.

[martin_fierro]

Aren't FReepers the best? You post a question, and there are SURE to be people here who can help.

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.

[Terriergal]

Another hint - don't give out your charterXX email address to anyone but personal friends. don't put it on customer surveys or anything. I always put our hotmail account as a registration email for online shopping etc. so that I won't get spammed at home. There is so much spam at hotmail that it really doesn't matter if they send you more anyway.