Go with MSN.
What ISP do you use?
by Gadget 20 Replies latest jw friends
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czarofmischief
I have a notebook that I drag down to the local cafe and plug in to their wireless network. High speed, no commitments, and fairly painless to use.
CZAR
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KenUK
I'm on BT Broadband.
Got 2 PC's networked in the house, on all the time, good speeds, and no issues. Don't know how I survived before!
Also retained my previous BT Openworld e-mail addresses (all 5 of them) for a £1.50 flat monthly fee. Probably ripped off but too much hassle to change addresses as my main one is about 7/8 years old!
Ken
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qwerty
Freeserves OK and reliable, but I have to say that I work for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would go for Pipex or http://www.plus.net/index.html?pn_session=e47861274028e755a45d47f8cae9856c.
I am thinking of changing my ISP because the staff offer only lasts 12 months! It goes back up from 19.99 to 27.99!
Qwerty
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qwerty
Hey Gadget,
That nipple looks inflamed!!!!!!!!!
Qwerty
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Sentinel
Over a period of many years, we tried several Dial-up ISP's, independent of local phone companies. It seemed that as rates went up, service went down. Getting connected and staying connected remained a nagging problem. Then we went to AT&T dial up and that was even worse.
About two months ago, we went with a promo DSL plan with Verizon. We have had a very good experience with them after some initial confusion. We thought that we had to have two separate phone line connections in order to be on the net at the same time and still have use of the phone. Apparently, we were mistaken because we received our first phone bill --with no LD calls, and it was over $215.00. We were told that the billing was correct, so we had to look for a quick resolution, as that is waaaaaaaay over our budget.
So we got rid of the extra phone line and DSL connection, and we bought some type of ISP adapter for my pc and a receptor antenna for the other computer--which was not inexpensive; but compared to being billed every month by Verizon, it will pay for itself in two months. I now have an antenna in the back of my tower, which picks up on the signal from the main receptor on the upstairs office computer. Our combined bill should be under $70.00 a month for phone and DSL. We are happy.
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rocketman
Our combined bill should be under $70.00 a month for phone and DSL. We are happy.
So that's the key to a hapy family life! I should have known.
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Matty
I have heard nothing but good things about breathe, so check them out:
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Sentinel
Absolutely Rocketman!! Happiness is relative to the situation at hand.
(Getting "connected" to "invisible stuff" is weird anyway....I don't understand why we have to pay for any of it if it's floating around out there. Just let them try and bill me for air! )
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maxwell
Well since someone mentioned a US ISP. I'm using Verizon DSL also, but I chose it because I knew I would then only need one phone line and because of the higher speed always-on connection. When I used dial-up, I had an extra phone line and the two phone lines plus the dial-up charge came up to about 80. With DSL and one phone line, it will probably come out to about 90 (right now I'm still paying the promo price which is lower), but as I said, its a faster always on connection. We have two computers in our small apartment so we recently bought the home-networking kit from Verizon. They sell you an expensive little router and some software. So now two computers connected to that same always-on Internet connection at one time. I probably could have bought the home networking equipment cheaper at Best Buy or some other computer store. Since our apartment is small we didn't get the wireless hardware. It's way better than my first Internet connection; when I was in college, we got Internet free through school, you had to follow a couple of sheets of set-up instructions and install software from floppies to get connected to a sub 28.8 bps connection, and the dial-up number was always busy between 6 and 12 in the evening, but I guess you can't complain when its free.