Recommend good dial-up ISP?

Woody

My father-in-law's ISP is closing down next week and he needs a
replacement, preferably free bar call charges.

Requirement is e-mail and occasional browsing - web access to mail would
be a bonus.

Those thought of so far are Madasafish, Tesco, and Virgin.

Any polite suggestions please?




--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

Mark

On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:45:18 GMT, "Woody" <> wrote:

>My father-in-law's ISP is closing down next week and he needs a
>replacement, preferably free bar call charges.
>
>Requirement is e-mail and occasional browsing - web access to mail would
>be a bonus.
>
>Those thought of so far are Madasafish, Tesco, and Virgin.
>
>Any polite suggestions please?

Two spring to mind:

1. ClaraNet still offer no-commitment, unlimited access via 0845
dialup and have always been a very good ISP. Select the 'Freetrial'
option here:



2. Failing that I'd go with Waitrose but you must dial-in at least
once every 30 (35??) days to maintain your e-mail access and indeed
your account, long-term.

Both these ISPs offer webmail access. The advantage of Clara is that
the webmail access is not retricted by domain (I think you need to
either need to be dialled up via Waitrose or otherwise pay £20 a year
for offnet access to their mail, BICBW.)

majogh

Woody wrote:
> My father-in-law's ISP is closing down next week and he needs a
> replacement, preferably free bar call charges.
>
> Requirement is e-mail and occasional browsing - web access to mail would
> be a bonus.
>
> Those thought of so far are Madasafish, Tesco, and Virgin.
>
> Any polite suggestions please?
>
>
>
>
Personally I think I would use something like a googlemail account for
email so you are free to swap and change ISP when you like. It's got
free POP, IMAP, web and WAP access and does not add an advertising line
to your email like some other free services do.

I have not used dial up access for a long time now but a friend of mine
uses the clara net free unlimited trial found here:


or for occasional use there are some you don't need to sign up with such
as free-dialup.net:

a list or free ISPs can be found here:

Doug Spinney

On Nov 5, 7:45 am, "Woody" <> wrote:
> My father-in-law's ISP is closing down next week and he needs a
> replacement, preferably free bar call charges.
>
> Requirement is e-mail and occasional browsing - web access to mail would
> be a bonus.
>
> Those thought of so far are Madasafish, Tesco, and Virgin.
>
> Any polite suggestions please?

ISP on a geographic number: 020-8114 9845 (cheaper then 0845)
Use any username and password to log in

No email though so would have to use a webmail service.

fred

In article <iSzXi.119655$.net>, Woody
<> writes
>My father-in-law's ISP is closing down next week and he needs a
>replacement, preferably free bar call charges.
>
>Requirement is e-mail and occasional browsing - web access to mail would
>be a bonus.
>
>Those thought of so far are Madasafish, Tesco, and Virgin.
>
Plenty of specific recommendations from others, just avoid outfits that
don't require registration as they frequently appear on anti-spam blacklists
and he may find outgoing emails being dropped by the recipient's ISP.
--
fred
Plusnet - I hope you like vanilla

Mike

On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:36:28 -0800, Doug Spinney
<> wrote:

>ISP on a geographic number: 020-8114 9845 (cheaper then 0845)
>Use any username and password to log in

That's interesting: how do they make any money / cover their costs?

Mike.

Andy Burns

On 05/11/2007 11:04, Mike wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:36:28 -0800, Doug Spinney
> <> wrote:
>
>> ISP on a geographic number: 020-8114 9845 (cheaper then 0845)
>> Use any username and password to log in
>
> That's interesting: how do they make any money / cover their costs?

Apparently it's provided by


but it seems they don't make enough money to keep the
domain on the air :-(

Mike

On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:30:11 +0000, Andy Burns
<.uk> wrote:

>On 05/11/2007 11:04, Mike wrote:
>> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:36:28 -0800, Doug Spinney
>> <> wrote:
>>
>>> ISP on a geographic number: 020-8114 9845 (cheaper then 0845)
>>> Use any username and password to log in
>>
>> That's interesting: how do they make any money / cover their costs?
>
>Apparently it's provided by
>
>
>but it seems they don't make enough money to keep the
> domain on the air :-

Hmm. That domain is registered to a David Knell, who is a
"non-trading individual" according to Whois. Nominet don't like that
misrepresentation. The network path to stops at a
router in Coulomb's address space that returns "Destination host
unreachable".

I guess that answers my question! They make some money from the telco
termination fee but it's probably not enough to cover the costs.

Mike.

Andrew Gabriel

In article <>,
Mark <.uk> writes:
>
> 2. Failing that I'd go with Waitrose but you must dial-in at least
> once every 30 (35??) days to maintain your e-mail access and indeed
> your account, long-term.
>
> Both these ISPs offer webmail access. The advantage of Clara is that
> the webmail access is not retricted by domain (I think you need to
> either need to be dialled up via Waitrose or otherwise pay £20 a year
> for offnet access to their mail, BICBW.)

The £20 (or whatever it is) a year also removes the need to
dialup every 30 days to maintain your e-mail access and account.
Waitrose ISP donates all its profits to charity -- members vote
for the charities to receive these.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

Owain

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>>Both these ISPs offer webmail access. The advantage of Clara is that
>>the webmail access is not retricted by domain (I think you need to
>>either need to be dialled up via Waitrose or otherwise pay £20 a year
>>for offnet access to their mail, BICBW.)
> The £20 (or whatever it is) a year also removes the need to
> dialup every 30 days to maintain your e-mail access and account.

OTOH a Clara Mail and News account is £12 a year IIRC and can be used
with almost any ISP

Owain