Dialup ISP recommendations

[LVZ]

Okay, folks, I haven't used dialup for years but a friend of a friend here in Las Vegas wants some recommendations. Nothing fancy, just reliable and inexpensive. Email, webspace, and ftp are not required. Someone mentioned ISPWEST. Any experience with these folks or others?

[dartworth]

Check out http://thelist.com/

[Daniel]

Everyone's Internet (http://www.ev1.net)

Been with them since 2002. Just $10/month (plus Regulatory Fee & Compliance Fee--totaling still under $11 each month). The first month's bill will include one time set-up fee of $29.50, plus applicable taxes and the monthly fee (the $10), which should make it under $45.

[KyleC]

copper.net is a my backup internet connection. nationwide 9.95

[openbox]

I grudgenly use NetZero when I'm on the road. Slow and they pop up ads at you, but they give you 10 hours free each month. If you just need the basics, I'd remmend them for minimal things.

[Daniel]

You know, AOL has been giving me free months everytime I try to call and cancel--even though I have yet to give them one penny. Around November 2003, network services became unreliable, so I opted to use AOL temporarily in case it went down. Since then I have tried to call and cancel subsequent times--at least three already and each time they gave me two to three more months free. I'm set until the end of June, and I barely use the darn thing since I got my own broadband connection. So in sum, that is about 8 months free of AOL. At this rate, I bet I'll get up to a year. LOL

[Frank Hagan]

I'll second the vote for ev1.net ... they even provide the equivalent to AOL's "TopSpeed" accellerator for that < $11 per month (I have mixed results with it on my dial up connection). You get some webspace, and up to 25 emails to boot.

[LVZ]

(I have mixed results with it on my dial up connection)

Does that mean you recommend NOT using it (Web Jet)?

[Frank Hagan]

My problem with the Webjet application is it seems to cache a lot more to disk, even though they say the technology is simply extra compression and not caching per se. I suspect the appearent speed difference is really the caching. The hard drive activity is very high when it is enabled, and because that bothers me, I un-installed it. Others may not be bugged by the disk activity.

[Buddha]

Anything but AOL. AOL reminds me of those roach motel commercials. Newbies go in but they never come out. I've got a number of friends who are afraid to leave AOL. I start talking about IE, Firefox, Outlook Express and their eyes glaze over. Half of them think their computer won't start if they don't sign on to AOL.

[Jonathan]

Get earthlink hi-speed; free unlimitied dailup access every month with it,
with a huge list of numbers so you can access it while on the road

[bhills]

Almost hate to write this, but Walmart. A friend of mine has it. Works good. With technical support.

$9.94 a month with free trial

• Unlimited email
• Instant messaging
• Great content: news, sports, and more
• Family-friendly controls
• Customer support
• Now accepting the Wal-Mart Credit Card

[LVZ]

Thanks for all the replies. EV1.NET looked like one of the best choices but the $29 setup seems kind of steep these days.

I decided to set them up with COPPER.NET which got a reasonably good writeup on CNET. $10 per month and no setup cost. Plus I found a link:

http://www.copperspecial.com/?4303394.asp

This link offered the 1st 3 months for only $1 per month.

Setup was quick and simple. Speed seemed adequate (this is dialup, afterall).

So for a no-frills dialup ISP, COPPER.NET seemed to fit their requirements.

[Frank Hagan]

One problem with Copper.net ... they block ports 23 and 25, so you can't telnet into your account and can't send mail via your website. I have to use ev1.net for that, which is unfortunate, as my dial up connection is 26,400 with ev1.net, but 44,000 with copper.net.

I may have to break down and pay the $70 per month for Adelphia cable broadband (I'm not a cable subscriber ... have a Dish Network system ... so they really stick it to you on the "broad band only" plan).

[Frank Hagan]

One problem with Copper.net ... they block ports 23 and 25

Correction: they do block port 25, so you can't send mail from your web account, but they do not block the telnet port (23).