James E. LaBarre wrote: > Adam wrote: >> Hi everybody! Your opinions wanted here... >> >> ... for a quality ISP with inexpensive unlimited local dialup access, >> for my parents. Do any of you know anyone who's using dialup locally >> and is either happy or unhappy with their ISP? This is the kind of >> thing where it's easy to get a list of ISPs, but I'd really appreciate >> anybody's first-hand (or second-hand) experience on their quality. >> >> BestWeb dialup was fine at first, but it got to the point where it was >> disconnecting them about every five minutes. They switched to NetZero >> which has the advantage of being cheap ($10/month unlimited), but >> NetZero requires their own customized browser, and the Windows version >> is impossibly buggy and I couldn't even get their Linux version to dial. > > > I see you've already had the experience with BestWeb. I think their > problem was that they had some highly-experienced folks set up the > original ISP, then those people left the company & were replaced with > barely capable and/or shor-timer staff. who let the system decay, and > when they tried to expand the system, they had no clue of what they were > doing. > > The problem is, despite what Joe was suggesting, sometimes broadband is > not an option at home. DSL or Fios may not be available due to your > location, and cable can be a grossly expensive option, *especially* if > you are not subscribing to cable TV.
On that front, you can get (at least as of a couple years ago),
Earthlink broadband over Time Warner cable. It eliminates the "no TV"
penality on billing, and was even cheaper than TW by a few dollars if
you had TV through them.
Still more expensive than trying to find a modem, but them's the breaks.
-Sean
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There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors
than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down.
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