Re: what is the best cheapest internet provider?

Posted by Larry 8N75381 on March 14, 2003 at 15:49:19 from (63.159.40.9):

In Reply to: what is the best cheapest internet provider? posted by gilane2 on March 14, 2003 at 14:28:56:

I have ivwnet.com as my isp. If you can pay for the full year, it is $99.00 for unlimited connection time. I got it because I can get on at home, at my farm (different area code) and at my son's house - another state. Only aggervation is they have a 10 minute no activity cut off. I type VERY slowly - lots of mistakes! - so I have to "play games" when I am doing a post like this. I just "preview" my post and then use the browser back button so it doesn't get posted and type some more until I'm done.

There are a lot of such providers. Turns out there are four MAJOR backbone internets in the USA. They do not sell directly to customers like us. They are like a manufacture (car mfr. for example) which sells thru a retailer (a car dealer) who sells the internet connection plus... X number of mailboxes, X web site space, OR whatever... The two "retailers" I have used so far have had agreements with all four backbones. BUT you must choose just one when you sign up. So, I looked at which one of the four had local dialup for the places I would be.

And I just got dropped off-line!! :-( I think this is a function of the phone service as much as it is of the "10 minute time-out". I sometimes have the line go dead while I'm downloading a page, so that is why I am accusing the phone system. BUT I like it MUCH batter than AOL. My AOL mail box was constantly full of JUNK!!! and some offensive stuff too.

I didn't look at the links the guys put up, but I found ivwnet thru a search for ISP's that found a site that compared a bunchof them. Good luck.

My $0.02.
Regards,
Larry

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