Free ISP

[shaggy2dope]

i was wondering if anyone heard of any free isp's netzero has been advertising too much and the busy signals have been a pain freei has been working good until they started advertisin on a major channel at prime time any other ones out there?

[daveleau]

Freewwweb is free too without any banners. There is also one by AltaVista too I think and its banner is said to be smaller than NetZero's. If you have problems with freewwweb like I did at first, it may be b/c they didn't refresh the installation passcode. If you have problem I'll give you mine (they use a universal code so it's not illegal) Happy hunting-
Dave
Here's the URL: www.freewwweb.com (http://www.freewwweb.com)

[daveleau]

BTW- Freewwweb uses the same access phone #s as MSN, Freei uses the same access phone #s as Prodigy. Both MSN and Prodigy have been saturated with users by giving the $400 coupons at Best Buy so they are only going to get slower. Thus Freewwweb and Freei are going to be slow unless they change their servers to independant ones. I did not recognize Net Zero's #s and haven't looked at AV so...
Dave

[Ed_S]

Second the vote for Freewwweb. I've been using them for 3 yrs with very few problems.

[shaggy2dope]

i am not gettin this freewwweb i d/l some 20 meg file and when i installed it i was installin netscape i didnt see nothin about free ISP?

[JW310]

shaggy2dope, there is a way that you can use freewwweb without having to download their 20 MB copy of netscape. Go here (http://www.freewwweb.com/pricing/pricmain.html), and right at the bottom of the page, it give you a link for people that already have a browser installed. It then gives you the instructions as to what to do to sign up; you just set up a DUN connection for it with username@freewwweb.com as your username and your password in the password box, set up the DNS and phone number as given by Freewwweb, and you're all set to go!

JW

[buzzmag]

I'm also sold on Freewwweb. No banner, no disconnects and access number where I live. Busy signals sometimes are a bother but I'll live with it and use my current $$$ISP until I get 2 way cable modem in my area.

[JW310]

My plans exactly, buzzmag. But I think it's going to be DSL rather than 2-way. 2-way is available in my area, but I think I'm going to get DSL when it comes out. It's only a couple months away, and I'm extremely close to the local phone switch. I'll keep freewwweb no matter what, though, as a backup for the high-speed connection I choose.

JW