P Witte wrote:
John Hitchcock writes:
Why not the ubiquitous TISCALI ? I've set up many for different users.
My personal experience with Tiscali.co.uk is that you get swamped with spam, the negotiation time with the host computer (both logging in and logging out) takes longer than with freeserve (thus clocking up extra revenue for Tiscali at your expense), that sometimes you are not allowed to log on to your email account via another ISP (thus forcing you to use Tiscali to get your Tiscali mail), and finally, that they dont permit your sending mail on another ISP account than your Tiscali account while connected via them. Freeserve offers an altogether cheaper and more reliable service. I was able to set up a freeserve account a year or two ago without using their CD which, however, is widely available from Dixons, PC World, etc, and on computer magazine cover disks.
For what you mention, if you are running a Windoze variant, make sure that you unchek the "Log in to network" option. That will speed your connecting time dramatically in most cases. For some reason most free ISPs in the UK (and in Greece where I have the experience from) do not allow connections like this and until they negotiate out of it it will keep you in "limbo"
