I am with BT internet and the service recently has been hopeless.

I am on a set fee 24hr access dial up setup and want the same.

what else is out there that actually gives a good service?

Thanks
john

 

NTL World

Completely and absolutely free 24 hours a day 7 days a week!



Service isn't bad either

Bas

 

john,
i'm on bt anytime at the moment and it's going downhill

there was a thing on watchdog the other night about BT trying to kill off loads of anytime users cos it's over subscribed.

thinking about broadband (see my post in non scooby related)

 

Clara.net - £15 a month for anytime free access - brilliant.

But I'm still going for Broadband next month (to get always-on 512k).

Will be cheaper overall the Home Highway+Clara.

Kevin.

 

I use AOL. 14.99 a month unlimited access.

Also using it worldwide, so far in Korea, Norway and Greece using aol access numbers. Only ATTGlobalnet can offer same.

Easy to generate e-mail addresses/easy to shutdown.

Any Drawbacks? I havent encountered any in years of use.

Many people I know now run aol as they just couldnt get access with Freeserve and BT due to busy access portals.

I have used my Orange mobile phone and laptop and surfed for FREE as Orange dont charge for many 0800 numbers.

Beastie

 

Kevin,
do you have any problems connecting to Clara? I'm with BT Anytime right now, I have no problems dialling in, I just can't login reliably anymore.
Thanks,
Martin.
p.s. too far from the exchange for ADSL, and no cable franchise

 

NTL Cable modem service

20 quid a month for unlimited 24 x 7 512K access

Service was average, now getting much better. Not had any outages for 3 months. Worst outage time was 5 days, but then I could use my free dial up link so I was'nt scoobynetless.

 

Oh yes, should'nt this be in Non scooby related?

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Neil Smalley:
<B>Oh yes, should'nt this be in Non scooby related? [/quote]

No, 'coz he uses it to get on Scoobynet

 

Same could be said of any thread DJ

 

Was orginally with Freeserve, but that got hopeless - allways being chucked off the server, and very slow connections.

Currently using BT Click - which is lo-call rate - and has reasonable connection speed........

 

Thats what i am on Markus and they are doing a damn fine job of killing me off right now!

 

Breathe.com 12.99 a month 24/7 first 2 month free.

 

Agree with Neil - NTL Cable modem is the biz. Haven't had any outage at all. Also agree on the forum thing

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Beastie:
<B>I have used my Orange mobile phone and laptop and surfed for FREE as Orange dont charge for many 0800 numbers.

Beastie[/quote]

Yep, but did you get a note with your orange bill this month telling you that you will now be charged for 0800 data call!




Jon

 

Telewest cable. 24x7 512mbit connection for £33 per month.

In reality I get download speeds of 60 - 70k per sec. Very sweet

 

NTL, broadband again, only had one problem in the couple of months when they lost my registration details.
Help line is not good, 3 hours on hold, not nice at mobile rates

Other than that it has been good

 

BT Internet Anytime but the ISDN service seems far better than the modem one.

My router re-dials on link failure anyway

ChrisB.

 

NTLWorld for me. Looked at Cable modem, which although it will be nice and fast, still costs money

NTL offer a good webmail as well, so provided you can get to an internet cafe, you can check and send emails from your NTL account. Ideal for checking it from work

 

I was with Libertysurf until it was swallowed up earlier this year by Tiscali, along with World Online. I am now using the Tiscali anytime package which is £14.99 a month. (Gives 24/7 access.)I am pleased with the service and have not encountered any problems with them. Tech support line not to bad either, although charged for, following query re accessing the 50 Meg of webspace they provide. (Problem related to me not understanding cuteFTP properly. )

Mark P

 

M_D_B: It usually takes a few attempts to connect to Clara.net but I've set up the Windows 98 dialer to redial automatically.

Once your on, there is no cut-off.

Mark Piesse: I was with LineOne (which was great) until Tiscali took them over and decided to chop the Supernews access. I found the transfer rates were also worse so I cancelled Surftime through Tiscali to go to Clara. I find it's much better and has a good binary news server too.

Kevin.

 

I have loads of free ISPs and the best one at the moment seems to be Yahoo. Always pretty quick and reliable. The best one used to be netscapeonline, which also provided a good free usenet server, but for some reason it seems totally knackered now. I got the Yahoo CD from a Waterstones bookshop originally, if memory serves me correctly.

Hope this helps.

 

Just to be different...

<B>DEMON</B> (or Demon Internet or Thus or whatever they want to call themselves )

Basic dial-up is £10 per month but I have one of their "Show Room" packages which works out as about £20 per month.

Basic dial-up gives you approx 5mb webspace, unlimited emails ( whoever@whateveryouwant.demon.co.uk ) and free (bar the local call) support 24/7.

I have a .com registered so use Show Room which allows 20mb webspace and other things + the ability to bounce whoever@puff.com type emails around other users around the world - a familly .com for my familly

This is used in conjunction with BT Surftime (& probably saves me £25 per month ) so makes up for the "free" ISP type approach (over phone lines).

Why?

Been with them since '94...

 

Freeserve anytime on ISDN, £12.99 / Month

Its everything I expect of a mass-market ISP. i.e cr*p at peak times. Linux box acts as router and redials if I get disconnected so have no idea if or when that happens.

Actually seems pretty good for bowsing/download 95% of the time. Sh*te for games far more (lag and dropped UDP far more noticable). When it gets too bad for games I use Lee's SIWD. PAYG service. Ping slightly higher but very very little lag.

Deano

 

Has anyone tried the BlueYonder broadband package from Telewest. I'm considering moving over from AOL as AOL is hopeless.

 

NTLWorld again - not too many connection problems, although when you do need customer service, impossible to get hold of them. Although, it is free(ish-pay for line rental £9.99 p/m), so what can you expect?

 

Whats this got to do with Subaru's

 

nothing to do with subaru but definitely need internet to access scoobynet! so i guessed a good ISP is important.

have a look at

 

AOL 24/7 £14.99 - No apparent problems

- Also means we can give the sproglets Internet access without too much of a worry - It's great to get e-mails from them when they are on holiday and I am at work

Mick

 

I'm still with Demon ( & have been since '94 ) . Done customer testing before public rollout of K56 , K56flex , Fax2Email services, wap , ADSL

When I was a lad you connected with a hybrid ham radio bit of software called KaQ9 - Text only and under DOS. Configuring modems was a right nightmare.

Now using USB ADSL service, since the testing for the 2mb 'buisness' service ended [ed: boooo... don't shrink my bandwidth !]. Just got it working through my h/w firewall