free isp, no banners,no personal information needed

[bingooo]

The speed is not bad
here is the link Link Deleted



Not here you don't.



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[JumpOnDeals]

If this company is legit. They are very new. Their webcounter shows that there were only 5000 visits to their site. An average site gets that amount in one or two days.
Steve

 

[2canSAM]

Looks kinda fishy to me. They use the same dial-up number as my earthlink and in the terms it says you have to change or update your username once a week to stay active. Does this mean your email address changes too. Oh well if you hotmail or something its not a big deal

 

[mccall]

If they make you change your username every week there's no damn way they're legit.

 

[NICKel]

looks like my mother Htmled the site!

 

[SilentBoB]

Do they require anything too personal like CC#? Will this service work on Dreamcast?

 

[Macro2]

This is very interesting. They want you to use them as a home page and use their serch engine.
Someone give it a try.

Mac

 

[todays]

Your mother HTMLed the site. LOL good one.

 

[ghouldini]

I have seen a similar post to this where the same questions were brought up. Notice that a "newbie" is bringing this up. Not only do I think this is a scam but maybe more. Even if legit, this is spamming. If this were coming from someone known here as a regular I would be inclined to think it was legit, maybe.

 

[Tung]

has anyone tried this?

 

[thegreatjeff]

I smell a big, fat, rat.

 

[mccall]

Come on people, use your heads. Just follow the clues:

They have a .cc extension

Their creation date was 2/28/01

a call to the toll free # on their contact page yields a "your call can not be completed" recording

and this, from their TOS: "You must update your login username with us once per week or you might find yourself without a method of signing onto the Internet."

EDIT: Either these people are the same as the ones that were running archangel or they copied their TOS. This is teh first line in paragraph 6 of their TOS:

"Arch Angel Will NEVER Collect and Use of Personal Information"

Looks like they failed their "English as a Second Language" course also.

All your ISP are belong to us!

 

[godsgift]

gota a bad feeling on this one

 

[flomokev]

Couple Problems with TheISP.cc plan.

1. One is prohibited from stopping cookies under the penalty of lose of service.
2. TheISP.cc can place a message and or a hypertext message link geared to promoting itself or a 3rd party in your outgoing email.

 

[Nightwatch]

What I see is a new company trying something different. They want you to use there search engine because they can control the search results and that is a possible selling point. They can get advertisers to pay to make there site show up as my search results. If this ISP ever became big time then they could make a good deal of money. BUT what will probally happen is if they had any kind of sucess with this, Netzero would buy them out like they have evey other free ISP.

I have no guess as to why they require us to change our login weekly.

I am a cable user at home and need an ISP for my travels with my laptop. I will be downloading this and giving it a try this week. I will report back and let you all know of any problems or complaints.

 

[Sirnice]

theisp seems to have the same advertisement on their homepage as archangel isp that was post a week or so ago. I tried login in after register but no connection. The software I dl doesn't support the 10 digit phone number since where i live (MD) we need to dial area code first even for local calls (only dials a 7 digit number). I think there is something suspicious about this company. Maybe they are the same company. theisp = archangel isp. same website content...

i.e are you paying too much for AOL... click here... blah blah blah

 

[goog40]

Hmm, change login names once a week. Totally speculatory, but... if you login to NetZero without their software, don't they send you an email saying your account will be closed in seven days unless you use their software? Oh, uh.. thats just what I "heard"

 

[Manb]

If you don't use netzero's software they won't give you an e-mail that your account will be terminated in a week unless you are using a username that specifies that you are using a previous version... all netzero does is append the version number to the username... and encrypt the password based on a weak algorythm.

Manb

 

[Bargainhuntress]

I dont know, I didnt look at this one, but I have been using archangel, no problems. Really nice isp.. no popups, no junk mail, no banners, nice to have my 15 inch screen all to myself for a change with nothing flashing on it!
I know that after I downloaded archangel, they updated the software, they sent me an email to go log into my email, and i downloaded the new software.. no problems for me.
Anyone else using them successfully?

 

[jacobnero6918]

I just signed up and gave it a try, it's 5:38 PM eastern time and it seems to work ok. I couldn't get it to work under windows 2000 but I skipped a step so I will have to try agian.

The changing the username is just a way to make sure they have active users and not people using those pay to surf programs which eat up there bandwith and do nothing for them.

Also the same numbers don't mean a thing, local numbers are the same in my area for 5 different ISP's I've used.


The download speed is at the max for 56K....I just downloaded a small file and it was steady at 6.0 kilo bytes which is like 48,000 bits. That is great for dialup.

 

[MontyBurns]

For those of you that have signed up, let me guess: Your username is T1, and your password is ID125250.

How did I know? Why, because it's hard coded into their page!

http://lanceman.addr.com/TheISP/step2.htm

Incredibly shady indeed.

Also note that this "ISP" doesn't even have its own Web server. The pages are all called into a frame. They actually reside on www.addr.com, a cheapo web hosting site.

And finally: It seems Lanceman, the Webmaster of TheIsp.cc presumably, is engaged in other endeavors, including cheap long distance:

http://lanceman.addr.com

 

[sojin]

I did try...

their s/w won't work on win2k... when it came to create the dial-up ras config, it confused apparently and wouldn't carry on...

well, didn't try it on win9x, may give it a shot in my VMware'd win98 top, still looking for sdram killer deals...

 

[DocYahoo]

This post is bingooo's (the orginator of this posT) FIRST and ONLY post in this forum.

This is way beyond the definition of fishy!

 

[GoatHerderEd]

this is so funny!! ive never seen anything this fisshy since... well i guess this is the most fishy yet!

 

[random]

wow. that IS fishy. That smells fishier than my friend's month-old seafood (of some sort) I found in his refrigerator.