 EricthornIt only hurts when I laughPremium
join:2001-08-10
Paragould, AR
 ·Paragould.net
| NOTE! SBC/Yahoo DSL-no 'free' personal web space This will only matter to you if you have a personal web site you want to put up.
If you are a new subscriber to SBC/Yahoo DSL, and you do not have a previous SBC account to migrate, your 'free' personal web space will be located on Geocities (replace cities with your own colorful moniker), which we all know is popup ad supported (which I don't consider 'free').
Why SBC/Yahoo would do this is beyond me, unless it's now some type of ad revenue plan and they are sharing the booty. Any other 'respectable' (not all, but a vast majority) ISP offers free personal webspace with no popups or banners required.
Just FYI for those of you considering signing up.
Geocities does have a non-ad plan, but it's an additional 4.95/mo, on top of the DSL fees you'll already pay. To me, that pretty much wipes out the savings I thought I was getting by signing up. I assumed (yep, I'll take the blame) that I would have a site on pages.sbcglobal.net, ad free, but that is not the case, unless you have an account with SBC that you are migrating to SBC/Yahoo, then you can keep your old ad free site.
In other news.. my connection, which came on 2 days early, is running pretty well, with occasional disconnects for no apparent reason (already discussed in another thread) and good speeds (1.2/130).
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| But then again..... True, I hate the pop-up ads more than anything, but I think the Geocities web page will be better and I will tell you why. The prodigy server (which PB was using before this) had a program called "building blocks" where you had to go step by step through their program using their backgrounds and they pretty much built the site for you. It took forever to figure out how to FTP and I'm not really sure if it even works correctly. At least Geocities will give the option of making an individual web page, without the same background as everyone else. |
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 LanikLab-nikPremium,ExMod 2002-03
join:2001-06-25
Bay Area | said by Bubbles5:
It took forever to figure out how to FTP and I'm not really sure if it even works correctly.
Just FTP into »ftp://home.pacbell.net with your username and password and upload the site into your directory.
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 SKYHNLu.. Lu.. LulululuPremium
join:2001-09-16
99999 | About that FTP, does everyone get one of those? And if I have an sbcglobal.net email, how do I get into it? |
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LanikLab-nikPremium,ExMod 2002-03
join:2001-06-25
Bay Area | said by SKYHN:
And if I have an sbcglobal.net email, how do I get into it?
If you have an email ending at pacbell.net thats where you setup your web space. For sbcglobal beats me.
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EricthornIt only hurts when I laughPremium
join:2001-08-10
Paragould, AR | reply to SKYHN
If you have an sbcglobal.net email, and it's not with SBC/Yahoo DSL, you should be able to go to pages.sbcglobal.net and login there to get your webspace.
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 ddawg5150When I Am Here I Can HelpPremium,VIP
join:2002-05-10
San Antonio | reply to Bubbles5
here try this »ftp://uid:password@pages.sbcglobal.net should work fine.
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 pokesphIt Is Almost FastPremium
join:2001-06-25
Sacramento, CA
kudos:1 | reply to Bubbles5
said by Bubbles5:
True, I hate the pop-up ads more than anything, but I think the Geocities web page will be better and I will tell you why. The prodigy server (which PB was using before this) had a program called "building blocks" where you had to go step by step through their program using their backgrounds and they pretty much built the site for you. It took forever to figure out how to FTP and I'm not really sure if it even works correctly. At least Geocities will give the option of making an individual web page, without the same background as everyone else.
Geocities has NO ftp access... they removed it about a year ago.. so your really stuck using the page builder ot file uploaded (and that really sucks!)
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| No FTP at all? Oh brother...well when I migrate at least my web page will be more than 3MB of space..... |
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Re: But then again.....and again then... said by Lanik:
If you have an email ending at pacbell.net thats where you setup your web space. For sbcglobal beats me.
I have a pacbell.net email address (for 2 yrs now) and I've never set up a personal home page. When I go to the PacBell Personal Home Page site in the attempt to set one up now, this is all that shows after the login page:
"Welcome to Personal Home Page from PBI"
"Please visit www.yahoo.sbc.com to sign up for personal home page."
From what I've seen here, that page will take me through the merge thing and I don't want to do that yet, so it looks like I missed my chance for a pop-up free website.
Darn, drat, dang and...so forth.
Fred |
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| Uh huh....if you are pacbell.net and either deactivated your personal web page OR never set it up, there is a glitch that directs you to sbc.yahoo.com, which you can't use until everyone migrates to the yahoo server (I think some time next year). I know they are working on a fix, but I haven't heard about any resolution yet... |
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pokesphIt Is Almost FastPremium
join:2001-06-25
Sacramento, CA
kudos:1 | said by Bubbles5:
...which you can't use until everyone migrates to the yahoo server (I think some time next year)...
I sure hope they don't force us.. i use this as a SOHO connection and can't stand that AOHell like crap.. Please tell me that we can keep are normal PacBell connections and email, etc.
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MatthewPremium,VIP
join:2001-08-03
Emmett, ID | reply to MHOyet2B
said by MHOyet2B:
I have a pacbell.net email address (for 2 yrs now) and I've never set up a personal home page. When I go to the PacBell Personal Home Page site in the attempt to set one up now, this is all that shows after the login page:
"Welcome to Personal Home Page from PBI"
"Please visit www.yahoo.sbc.com to sign up for personal home page."
Were you one of the early migration customers from this site?
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| said by Matthew:
Were you one of the early migration customers from this site?
Nope...Just sittin' tight with my original PacBell account.
I'd like to think that what Snow42 said is true, but I did think that perhaps my firewall is overly fired up and maybe that interferes with some sites' normal functioning. |
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ddawg5150When I Am Here I Can HelpPremium,VIP
join:2002-05-10
San Antonio | reply to Ericthorn
Re: NOTE! SBC/Yahoo DSL-no 'free' personal web space Just to reassure some people. If you were to migrate you would not need any Yahoo! software. All you would need is a PPPoE software or capable router. If you are static you don't need to worry about the software at all. Only thing that really changes about your account is that you are now going through Yahoo! email servers.
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pokesphIt Is Almost FastPremium
join:2001-06-25
Sacramento, CA
kudos:1 | Has anyone noticed the quality of yahoo's web access has gone down since it's picked up SBC Global? |
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A21Premium
join:2001-07-15
Portland, OR | reply to Ericthorn
Re: NOTE! SBC/Yahoo DSL-no 'free' personal web sp Can you really not log into pages.sbcglobal.net with an SBC Yahoo account? does it give you a normal "authentication failed" message? |
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EricthornIt only hurts when I laughPremium
join:2001-08-10
Paragould, AR Reviews:
·Paragould.net
| I get a 550 Auth error on pages.sbcglobal.net (trying with and without the @sbcglobal.net extension)... still waiting on a response from SBC tech as to why I have to pay for ad free webspace (btw.. I'm not a migrating customer, I'm new to SBC/Yahoo)
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A21Premium
join:2001-07-15
Portland, OR | reply to Ericthorn
I mean from the web interface on »pages.sbcglobal.net ... what does it tell you? |
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 pa555Seconds Last
join:2001-05-11
Monrovia, CA
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Re: NOTE! SBC/Yahoo DSL-no 'free' personal web space What do you get when you try these
»secure.pacbell.net/sbc/php_login.html
Use your username & password
When I log in using »secure.pacbell.net/sbc/php_login.html I get;
Welcome to Personal Home Page from PBI !
You currently have a Personal Home Page at no additional cost as part of the Extra Access Plan.
Do you want to continue with this service or deactivate ?
Is that trying to migrate me to Yahoo???
If I use »home.pacbell.net/pagetools/cgi-bin/start.cgi put my username & password in, log on it takes me to my Page Manager Menu...
Paul
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