March 01, 2003

Phone puzzle

I am perplexed, and I don't care who knows it. For two years I've had both Prodigy and Verizon as ISP's, on the theory that redundancy doesn't cost a lot and might be handy. Recently Prodigy (owned by SBC) and Yahoo (owned by Yahoo) have done a deal whereby former Prodigy users had to move to the new portal pages that Yahoo had brought to the deal. Finally, day before yesterday, I upgraded (?) to the new software. It gives me a Yahoo browser (with no history button; who the hell had that bright idea?), a 25mb mailbox with the same old address I had at Prodigy, and a slew of other features I don't care about. (As an aside, I now can't seem to get my Prodigy mail in Eudora any longer, which is a pain, and I'm still fighting that battle).

But the puzzle is that, with the new browser and Prodigy's local phone connection, I cannot read certain web sites (specifically kd's). However, when I use the new browser and the Verizon phone connection, I have no trouble accessing her site at all. This makes no sense to me. Why the hell should the phone line have any impact on whether I can read a web site or not?

Any ideas?

Posted by Linkmeister at March 1, 2003 09:13 PM
Comments

I think all this "stuff" going on in cyberspace is a mass conspiracy..... ;-)

Posted by: toxiclabrat at March 2, 2003 09:53 AM

Ashcroft. I blame Ashcroft.

Posted by: Linkmeister at March 2, 2003 10:07 AM

A ip issue, maybe? Otherwise, I have no idea. Try using the ip address instead, kd can tell you what it is, and see if that works.

Posted by: Lee at March 2, 2003 08:43 PM