New RR Broadband Question

Hi,

Finally have Road Runner broadband. The installation went well and the tech
was informative. During "authorization" he said I got a good IP Address. I
know what the definition of IP Address is: the computer's location. But can
someone tell me what he meant? What determines if an IP address is "good" or
not?
--
Summer (no valid email)
Thought ~
If you stop to kick at every dog that barks at you, you'll never get very
far.

He was probably joking, I cannot figure it out some other way

"Summer" <summer@thecabinbythelake.com> wrote in message
news:j2nXe.92598$p_1.9256@tornado.tampabay.rr.com. ..
> Hi,
>
> Finally have Road Runner broadband. The installation went well and the
> tech
> was informative. During "authorization" he said I got a good IP Address. I
> know what the definition of IP Address is: the computer's location. But
> can
> someone tell me what he meant? What determines if an IP address is "good"
> or
> not?
> --
> Summer (no valid email)
> Thought ~
> If you stop to kick at every dog that barks at you, you'll never get very
> far.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Thanks for responding.

A few more questions: I'm using MS Office Outlook 2003 with OE for newsgroup
reading on a WinXP Pro machine. The newsgroups no longer work the same since
installing broadband.
They are mostly Intuit and Microsoft non-binary newsgroups. Only three
groups download. I have a list of over 30 groups, all of which regularly
downloaded on dial-up without problems. I have the correct news server
address: news-server.cfl.rr.com. Tried resetting the newsgroups, but OE
would stop responding each time the download reached about 32,000. Many
years ago, I vaguely remember having to delete the newsgroup file and then
re-download the list. But not sure this fix applies today. Don't know where
the file is anyway.

Any ideas how to fix this? Or is there another way to get newsgroups from
other servers? Anybody know where there is a list of servers? Perhaps I
should just forget about OE and set up Google to view my favorite groups?
Help!

TIA
--
Summer
(no email)


"Florin" <florin@cluj.astral.ro> wrote in message
news:OIXoig5vFHA.3452@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
| He was probably joking, I cannot figure it out some other way
|
| "Summer" <summer@thecabinbythelake.com> wrote in message
| news:j2nXe.92598$p_1.9256@tornado.tampabay.rr.com. ..
| > Hi,
| >
| > Finally have Road Runner broadband. The installation went well and the
| > tech
| > was informative. During "authorization" he said I got a good IP Address.
I
| > know what the definition of IP Address is: the computer's location. But
| > can
| > someone tell me what he meant? What determines if an IP address is
"good"
| > or
| > not?
| > --
| > Summer

Never mind... I just figured it out. I need to unsubscribe and then
resubscribe to each group. Thanks anyway! :-) No, I'm not blonde, just
having a blonde moment.

--
Summer
(no email)


"Summer" <summer@thecabinbythelake.com> wrote in message
news:zJEYe.103247$4i6.29578@tornado.tampabay.rr.co m...
| Thanks for responding.
|
| A few more questions: I'm using MS Office Outlook 2003 with OE for
newsgroup
| reading on a WinXP Pro machine. The newsgroups no longer work the same
since
| installing broadband.
| They are mostly Intuit and Microsoft non-binary newsgroups. Only three
| groups download. I have a list of over 30 groups, all of which regularly
| downloaded on dial-up without problems. I have the correct news server
| address: news-server.cfl.rr.com. Tried resetting the newsgroups, but OE
| would stop responding each time the download reached about 32,000. Many
| years ago, I vaguely remember having to delete the newsgroup file and then
| re-download the list. But not sure this fix applies today. Don't know
where
| the file is anyway.
|
| Any ideas how to fix this? Or is there another way to get newsgroups from
| other servers? Anybody know where there is a list of servers? Perhaps I
| should just forget about OE and set up Google to view my favorite groups?
| Help!
|
| TIA
| --
| Summer
| (no email)
|
|
| "Florin" <florin@cluj.astral.ro> wrote in message
| news:OIXoig5vFHA.3452@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
|| He was probably joking, I cannot figure it out some other way
||
|| "Summer" <summer@thecabinbythelake.com> wrote in message
|| news:j2nXe.92598$p_1.9256@tornado.tampabay.rr.com. ..
|| > Hi,
|| >
|| > Finally have Road Runner broadband. The installation went well and the
|| > tech
|| > was informative. During "authorization" he said I got a good IP
Address.
| I
|| > know what the definition of IP Address is: the computer's location. But
|| > can
|| > someone tell me what he meant? What determines if an IP address is
| "good"
|| > or
|| > not?
|| > --
|| > Summer
|
|