Gina Stevenson
2nd March 2007, 07:41 PM (19:41)
Yes, I've been checking other ones; this one bugs me ... I disabled their "bartshell-something-or-other," but I'm still not sure if that has something to do with its slowness, or what, but I didn't need their "junk" all over my page, along with this browser ... cuts down on usable space.
Anyway, I'm not so sure about DSL (tho' faster would be nicer than dial-up), since I've heard that it takes a certain phone line (an older house, having no phone updates in "eons," we wouldn't have it, I'd guess)---DOES IT?---so one can use both the phone & computer at once. You see, there's this one ISP that says just $14.95/mo for a year (after that, it would probably have to be back to dial-up, barring their prices going down, as it goes up after a year ... or some miracle re $$).
These are the dial-ups I've reluctantly narrowed it down to, therefore. ANYONE know anything about these particular ones, good or bad??
JUNO -- now $6.95 rather than $9.95 for a limited time (I'd snag it for a year again, if it were good, so as to not have to bother this hassle again for awihle). Have heard good & bad in the past; has it improved, or is it still bad?
ISP.com -- $8.95/mo ... don't recall hearing of it before.
TRITON.com/net (don't recall--com or net--but I tried them a few months before this last year's worth of one I don't want again) -- there's a local office; they seemed a mite slow, too, sometimes. Not sure if they've sped up, or ...?? 'Seems I've heard that they have places all over, too, but there is a local MI # and address in the phone book. Learned of them when browsing the newest mall not long after I was here, and they had a booth.
Or, aren't many here even dialed in nowadays, so you don't know about these? ANY HELP ... quickly (tomorrow at midnight, I have to either find another "trial basis" one while I continue to look---one I've not already done a trial with---or just pay someone for a month, I guess, and then maybe figure who to use for a year??).
THANKS MUCH!! Oh, yeah ... of course I'd like to hear about something else, too, other than these three, if you know about them. 'Seems like there was some other name I found last year when looking that I somehow missed this time, but I cannot recall what it was named.
Anyway, I'm not so sure about DSL (tho' faster would be nicer than dial-up), since I've heard that it takes a certain phone line (an older house, having no phone updates in "eons," we wouldn't have it, I'd guess)---DOES IT?---so one can use both the phone & computer at once. You see, there's this one ISP that says just $14.95/mo for a year (after that, it would probably have to be back to dial-up, barring their prices going down, as it goes up after a year ... or some miracle re $$).
These are the dial-ups I've reluctantly narrowed it down to, therefore. ANYONE know anything about these particular ones, good or bad??
JUNO -- now $6.95 rather than $9.95 for a limited time (I'd snag it for a year again, if it were good, so as to not have to bother this hassle again for awihle). Have heard good & bad in the past; has it improved, or is it still bad?
ISP.com -- $8.95/mo ... don't recall hearing of it before.
TRITON.com/net (don't recall--com or net--but I tried them a few months before this last year's worth of one I don't want again) -- there's a local office; they seemed a mite slow, too, sometimes. Not sure if they've sped up, or ...?? 'Seems I've heard that they have places all over, too, but there is a local MI # and address in the phone book. Learned of them when browsing the newest mall not long after I was here, and they had a booth.
Or, aren't many here even dialed in nowadays, so you don't know about these? ANY HELP ... quickly (tomorrow at midnight, I have to either find another "trial basis" one while I continue to look---one I've not already done a trial with---or just pay someone for a month, I guess, and then maybe figure who to use for a year??).
THANKS MUCH!! Oh, yeah ... of course I'd like to hear about something else, too, other than these three, if you know about them. 'Seems like there was some other name I found last year when looking that I somehow missed this time, but I cannot recall what it was named.