01
Mar 2006 -
Please update your PC's email program settings for Outgoing (SMTP) Authentication
by 15 Apr 2006 In
an effort to combat the rising tide of Unsolicited Commercial Email, or "spam",
all RIVA.NET email servers after 15 April 2006 will no longer allow the sending
of outgoing (SMTP) email for anyone who has not already
set their PC's
email
program
to use "Outgoing (SMTP) Authentication by username and password". If you
find that you are not able to send outgoing email, the steps for making the necessary
changes are given below. By making these changes, you will further enhance the
anti-spam
protection
that
we already provide and further reduce the very few spam messages that do get
through to your email inbox. The instructions for your PC's email program can
always
be
found
in
our
"Setup
Help"
pages. If your email program is not specifically listed, then let
us know and we will do our best to add it. All modern email
programs have the same or similar settings that allow for Outgoing (SMTP) Authentication.
04
May 2005
- Beware phony emails from Sober-N virus Earlier
this week, our users began calling us to ask if we were sending them email
with a strange footer, or perhaps blocking their email to other ISPs. We
said we were not, and upon research we discovered that yet another virus,
the
Sober-N
virus,
is
forging
the domain
of people's
email domain onto spam messages. These messages have one sole purpose -
to get you curious so that you will click them and become infected with
the Sober-N virus. The good news is that, as always, we are killing 100
percent of all known email viruses - including the Sober-N virus - in our
servers before they can even get to you through our email. That still leaves
other
mail systems out there responding to the forged email messages, and you
may see those forged reply messages appear in your inbox
Just
ignore such messages - they do not come from RIVA.NET or from any of
the other ISPs which may appear in them. You will know it is the remnants
of the Sober-N virus
if the end of the message has three lines, each of which begins
with three asterisks followed by an ISP's domain name and weblink. The
message is harmless, and our standard advice is, as always. don't
click any web links that may appear in such messages, and don't reply
to any
spam
messages,
ever!
Hope this
answers your questions about those weird emails you have been seeing
this week, and thank you once again for the opportunity to be of service
to you!
04
Jan 2005 - Telco
issue in Maryland Earlier this morning there was a
Verizon-related technical issue with 1 of our over 50000 dialup numbers.
As of 9am this morning, the issue was resolved and all numbers are now working
fine and have no busy signals or other connection problems. Thank you once
again from RIVA.NET!
11
Nov 2004
- New RIVA.NET Account Manager available! Our new
customer Account Manager (button above) allows you to see and control your
own RIVA.NET account! You can now log in and change your dialup password,
check your current usage this month or for any past month, check on the
status of online payments made to your account, view invoices and statements
online, and make payments to your account anytime 24 hours a day, using
stored credit card or electronic check accounts. Just enter your dialup
username and password to login. Soon, you will be able to create and edit
your email accounts, and control your web site accounts using this same
interface. We hope you find these tools helpful, and we will be enabling
more and more users for this option in the near future, as well as making
a continuing series of improvements to the interface in response to further
feature requests from you, our members. Thank you once again for your support!
05
Nov 2004
- RivaFast Software Updated - FREE 14-day trial Following
apparently an unannounced software update that Microsoft has made to
their Windows
operating system, we have had reports of the RivaFast software
malfunctioning. If you are experiencing this problem, you will notice
that the software continually asks for your username and password, even
though
you are already logged on. We have issued a fix that is available by
clicking
HERE
or by clicking on the above blue menu button entitled "Try RivaFast!".
When the first screen loads, click the button named "Try It!". Read
through and print the instruction page, and then click "Start
Download". Follow the instructions, being sure to enter your correct
primary email address when prompted,
or you will not receive your password numbers by reply email. Disable
any popup blockers before installing. Completing these steps will install
our improved RivaFast software with greatly expanded functionality,
including
a new
Ad Blocker
and a new
Firewall
to
help protect
your PC from hackers and trojans. You may give the service a FREE 14-day
trial using this link. You will need to remove (un-install) the old RivaFast
software and restart your
computer
before
installing the
new
version.
We apologize for the inconvenience, doubly so given that there was no
way this Microsoft action could have been foreseen. NOTE- if you are
an existing RivaFast customer, please use this link anyway to sign up
again- we will automatically convert the trial to active status after
you sign
up in
the new interface.
01
Feb 2004 - RIVA.NET announces price reductions! Our
Nationwide Dial-Up ISDN and Dial-up Services just got even more affordable :-)
Effective
01 Feb 04, all new subscribers to RIVA.NET will be given our
Nationwide Service at the same prices as our former Regional
Service. And, all our existing subscribers with current accounts
in good standing have been upgraded to full Premium Nationwide
as well. From now on, every RIVA.NET subscriber has full access
to our over 50,000 local dialup numbers nationwide! To see how
the pricing table for dial-up services has been simplified, just
click HERE. It is our way of saying "Thank
you from all of us at RIVA.NET" for having been subscribers
for so long - we value each
and every
one of
you!
01
Dec 2003 - RIVA.NET announces Accelerated Dialup Service! And
just in time for
Christmas, too :-)
To
sign up for your FREE 7 day trial of the RIVAfast service, click
HERE and
follow the instructions. Use your existing RIVA.NET dial-up username
and password to enroll. If you like the service, just click "activate" at
any time during the 7-day trial, and we will start applying the
$3.95 (times the number of months remaining
in your
term) automatically. Or, just uninstall the Accelerator and there
will be no charge.
We
are now offering
our new RivaFast Accelerated Dialup Service for a 7 day free trial. For
a small additional monthly fee, this new service
speeds up your web browsing and other Internet activity. It requires
only your existing RIVA.NET dialup connection and a free new software
program, our own RIVAfast Accelerator, that you download from our web
site during the signup process and install on your Windows PC. After
activating the service, you will
see
dramatic
speed
increases,
as fast as three to five times the speed of your current RIVA.NET dialup
connection or more. This is the next best thing to DSL or cable for a
lot less money,
and in some cases is just as fast or faster (when compared to a long
loop-length DSL installation
with
rates reduced by wire length to as low as 150K or less, an accelerated
dial solution using a dialup phone connection
which
previously ran at 53K may
now exceed
real rates of 180K or more in real-world web browsing and 250K or more
for email)! RivaFast uses our own InterCache Accelerator, a special high-speed
compression
technology which
squeezes
more data
through
your existing
phone
line and
modem
then expands it in your computer to yield dramatically faster web surfing,
email, and noticeable speedups on even the toughest and longest web file
downloads.
Initial
pricing is set at just $3.95 per month-equivalent, and can be added
on to your existing dialup service term. Discounts are available for
adding
the
service to the remainder of your annual term plan. We look forward to
your signing up for this new and extremely inexpensive opportunity
to beat high cable and DSL pricing and make your dialup connection
faster
- RivaFast!
Please note that
this service is, at present, only for WIndows 98 or later PCs running at
least Internet Explorer 5.0 or above, and either Outlook Express or Outlook.
Regrettably, it does not yet run on our beloved Macs, nor does it yet work
with Netscape or other non-Microsoft browsers :-(
01
Sept 2003 - RIVA.NET expands its Nationwide Service! Our
Nationwide Service now covers over 50,000 local dialup city locations
across the United States! Detailed
prices and terms now on our Dial-up Services page!
30 May
2003 - RivaDSL is
now available to populous areas of Maryland as well
as our Nationwide coverage, providing those businesses and households are
within
10,000 feet or less
of a qualified telephone company Central Office. With speeds as fast
as 1.5 Mb/s in and out, and prices starting at $39.95, our DSL packages with
full ISP services and a free backup nationwide unlimited dialup account
are superior to other DSL providers - and we guarantee the famous RIVA.NET one-stop
personal customer service for both technical and billing issues! For those
households and businesses which are unable
to be served by DSL, we still offer RIVAfast Portable DSL and ISDN broadband
at 128 kb/s in and out.
Try our RIVA.NET Web-based
email! Click HERE to see your RIVA.NET
mail via web! Or, just type http://riva.net into any standards-compliant
web
browser, such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.
As always, we offer 100% filtering of known email
viruses at no extra charge on all our dialup services plans, as well as
aggressive SPAM filtering.
Come Join Us ! Money-Back Pro-rata Guarantee! Call 410.956.0500
today !
We have been an ISP for over fourteen years now
- longer than anyone else in Maryland. After you have read these pages and
explored our site, we hope you will agree that we are Simply The Best choice
for your
Internet access, and will decide to make us your ISP too! We provide exceedingly
high quality services for both the home
modem user and the dedicated high-reliability business
user. Our technical staff is composed entirely of degreed, experienced
professional electrical engineers, computer engineers, and software engineers.
Come Join Us ! Call 410.956.0500 today !
Give us a call at 410.956.0500 or drop us an email,
and see just how fast we can convince you that you will be making the best choice
of your life by switching to us now and letting us be your Total Solution Internet
Service Provider.
Our Price Protection Program - These
Term Plans guarantee your prices will not go up...
We offer several Term Pricing Plans for Dial-up
Services, that both protect you from the inevitable price increase in this industry
in the upcoming months and years, and provide the guarantee that when the next
speed jump in technology comes your service will be automatically upgraded to
the higher speeds at no cost. See our Dial-up Services
page for more details!
Situated on the Chesapeake Bay off the South River,
Riva MD is a small waterfront community of several thousand vacationers, fishermen,
and professionals. Just a short drive across the Riva Bridge from Annapolis,
and minutes from Washington DC or Baltimore MD, the little community of Riva
is a refuge in the evenings from the busy work day for those in government,
military, industry, and the arts.
For over eighteen years, one of the best-kept
secrets in the Annapolis Maryland area was a well-camouflaged high-speed
computing and telecommunications
facility run by a small company of highly-educated degreed engineers providing
communications, computer, and data network design engineering services
to NASA, Department of Defense, and intelligence-community customers. Today,
that company has opened their doors to the public and converted their state-of-the-art
high speed computer facilities, leased-lines, and fiber-optic communications
network into the area's fastest, most efficient, and best-engineered Internet
Service Provider, and a major nationwide telecommunications carrier offerring
retail and wholesale dial solutions across the United States to hundreds
of other ISPs.
