What dial up isp are YOU useing?

[a10]

I'm looking for a new dial up provider(no form of highspeed internet is available where I live...darn lazy and stupid companies).

I'm looking for a new isp that won't kick me off the internet because I've been connected for too long at once, and I'm looking for an isp that has a technical support not run by preschool drop outs.

any suggestions?

[techieMoe]

I'm looking for a new dial up provider(no form of highspeed internet is available where I live...darn lazy and stupid companies).

I can relate to that. I too have lived in a black hole on the map, far from civilization.

I'm looking for a new isp that won't kick me off the internet because I've been connected for too long at once, and I'm looking for an isp that has a technical support not run by preschool drop outs.

Best of luck there, because in my experience all ISPs are employed by preschool dropouts. It would help to know what country and/or region you live in so those of us who live near you can offer suggestions. Different companies service different areas.

[Roxoff]

I'd recommend Demon Internet. They're based in London, but the phone network works fine even in the most rural places in the UK.

I bet you'll be telling us next that you're not in the UK... But then, you never told us where you actually are.

Anyway, less digression. When I was last using Dialup, maybe 8 or 9 yrs ago now, I used diald to provide a dial-on-demand connection; if the line went down to idleness (i.e. saving me money) it didn't redial until a connection was required - it held any packets (DNS requests or web page requests) in a queue until the link was up.

[a10]

I bet you'll be telling us next that you're not in the UK... But then, you never told us where you actually are.

Yes now it seems obvious that I should have told you where I live, And as you guessed, it's not in the UK.

I live in the US (California, el dorado county to be more precise). It's too bad the ISP you suggested is a little far for me to dial into without some serious long distance charges.

Anyone know of any other good dial up isps?

[cousinlucky]

I do not know of any U.S. dial-up service provider that is not going to secrectly download adware, spyware etc. software into your computer. I can advise you to stay away from AOL, NetZero, Budget, Copper, etc

[ryokimball]

Oh, terrible, horrible, EVIL dial up....
The majority of my pitiful existence hath been entwined with thine evil laziness and dreadful indecisiveness.
My best experience was, sadly, with Yahoo! dial-up, over the last few years. The other ISP I ever "used" was local, so you're kinda screwed when it comes to that, but speaking of local, I've heard that in certain places in Texas, mainly the Houston area, there is actually FREE dial-up ISPs, which would be very, very nice --and if you could find one around where you live, I'm sure you could suffer any delays and such you might encounter (free's always nice). And that's not to say that you won't get good service; I'm just covering the bases.
As far as the popularity of these free things... I heard of this from a man I met whilst camping just out of random conversation, and I really haven't heard of such a thing since (I've been curiously looking since moving to the Memphis area, not that I need it, and haven't found any openly advertised).
Here is a site I just found that might point you in that direction.
But back to Yahoo! ~~it never failed me that I recall, but that's not saying much since I didn't use it for the last couple of years and the best network speed we could get was an average of 8 kb/s. Ack... I am SOO thankful for DSL, even if it's relatively slow compared to others.

[Farmer Mike]

I've been using Earthlink since before I went over to Linux. It works fine with Linux for me, I just don't get all the intervening software and decoration now. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

Mike

[a10]

Yeah I've looked at free dial up services, the problem is they are all either local (but not to me) and they disappear quickly.

I'll take a look at Yahoo, thanks for the tip.

I'll be looking around at local ISPs and see what I find.

[harner]

Localnet, all the way. $10/month. Nationwide coverage. They don't kick you off and the support is alright. Look them up.

[nowshining]

Juno dialup FREE past 10 hours - tho you only get 3hrs a session, that's the downside with cheap ips, it's no where like huge ISPs where you get to stay dialed in hours on end..lolz.. by the way gnome ppp is great..