I use earthlink cable and have no problems with it. We got free installation so ours was installed the day after we called free of charge. Minimal down time, an dit is usually in the middle of he night anyways.
And SC1, from what you describe, can only load SS and nothing else, you might check for viruses, worms, errors etc on your computer. There should be no reason that you can load one webpage just fine but not another that would have anything to do with the ISP. Do you have a firewall blocking the ports AIM etc use to communicate?
Robert |