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Best nationally accessible ISP ????

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fitzm

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I am looking for info on a nationwide Internet Service Provider with either local access numbers (Southern Illinois area) or 800 numbers for access. Are you happy w/ your ISP? I am not happy with AOL and we need to change for business and personal. Any info is appreciated!!


 
I've been using Juno for a few years now. First I just used the
free Email, but a year ago I signed up for their Juno Web service.
It's half the AOL price, dialup almost anywhere in US.
I've been satisfied......Greg
 
Try looking into the big national providers like earthlink, at&t worldnet, excite, etc. here isn't a bad place to get started.

~Ladi
 
DO Americans have to pay for internet access?

NTL in the UK offers 100% free access - no service charges OR phone line charges - 24/7.

Completely mad eh? Guess it could be time to move over here...............
:Q😀
 
Most of the national dialups IFAIK use UUNET dial up numbers. That means that you will get basically the same connection speed and the same access numbers for most of them. If I were in the market for a dial-up account, I would look at Earthlink and other similar sized ISP's.

I have heard that the larger companies get more bandwidth for their customers at the leased numbers, but I am not sure of this.

From my experience in ISP tech support.

UUNET has very good uptime, and in the areas that I dealt with, very few busy signals. To check if an ISP has UUNET numbers go to this link and compare it to their dialup numbers.

GNAPS (Global NAPS) does not have very good uptime and has lots of busy signals. This was only in the New England area, but we had outages lasting several days for whole states.

Level3 seemed to be a fairly reliable provider, but we did not have that many subscribers using them.

Very few providers have 800 numbers anymore without significant per minute charges due to the cost. In fact, I do not know of any who offer it.

Good luck finding a dial-up provider, but go with DSL or cable if you can. You will never go back to dialup after that.
 
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