RE: FN-FORUM: Anyone on Freeserve dailup? [OT]

date posted 1st April 2003 23:46

I feel for you,
I went for years putting up with the same shit using dial-up operators.
I went through a number, including Tiscali, Freeserve, BT, Line One and
AOL(spit!), amongst others and I found none of them particularly good
and most annoying. Unfortunately, if you are reliant on dial-up then
you'll always put up with the same shit- the discs, the spam and now the
restrictions. Fortunately, I was rid of dial up before they started
capping their 24/7 services. This in itself I find ridiculous as you pay
for a 24/7 service and expect to be given 24/7 service, not to be
refused service if you exceed their specified limit. I think they've
stopped using the term 'unlimited' (trade descriptions and all that) now
but they certainly used to. Unfortunately you'll probably have to put up
with their shit until you move over to an established base, close enough
to an exchange or with a cable and sign up to broadband. It's not fair
but it's an unfortunate fact.

Oh, and whatever you do don't sign to BT - contracts are an arse!

Good luck,
Kai

monoliff
internet design and production
www.monoliff.com


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On
Behalf Of Ryan Kirkaldy
Sent: 01 April 2003 18:32
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: FN-FORUM: Anyone on Freeserve dailup? [OT]

Any of you guys on freeserve? i've been sent 4 or 5 emails about them
wanting me to use their dailer instead of winxp's default, i sent them 5
emails back with the same thing, telling them that I didnt want to use
their
3rd party crap to connect up, got the same auto 'I cba to read this
email
responce' , BT tried this before.

About 3 or so weeks ago, freeserve sent out 1500 emails to people who
'overuse' a 24/7 ISP called 'Anytime', they following suit from BT.

Is it just me or is it that Freeserve are doing the oppersite, and those
not
using their dailer are getting constant crap connections, DNS error,
extremly slow, random connection drops etc? or have I been branded as a
overuser and they've put my username etc on the side of, 'give him a
crap
connection so he'll get ADSL' list?

Any of you guys experiencing this as well? I'm moving soonish, so dont
want
to commit to ADSL yet since it'll cost me another 80 odd quid to get it
reinstalled, plus the hasle.

Regards,
Ryan Kirkaldy
Tourism SouthWest
www.tourismsw.co.uk
[EMAIL REMOVED]



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