Does anyone still do Dail up ??

bargainbird

Just gave MIL our old PC, but she'd really be better with dail up, bt don't do it anymore....?

Thanks

macman

No, but dozens of other providers do. Just Google it.
Or here:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/dial-up-internet-isps
But with broadband as cheap as £5.99pm, wouldn't that be better for her?
www.samknows.com

miketurtle81

Surely she would be better off with a very basic broadband package? My grandparents are Internet novices but having broadband means they don't get fed up when waiting for pages to load. Dial up would be such a turn-off in this day and age.

Donnie

An alternative....make sure they send you the correct model. The new version puts a time limitation of thirty days usage per top up. The version advertised does not. Just use it occasionally to keep it alive.

PlutoinCapricorn

I used BT dialup for a few years: it was not too bad at first, but it became so slow it was unusable.

I now have prepaid 3 dongles. Mobile Broadband can be compared to very fast dialup and is fine for light users. If you have 3 network coverage in the area, this would be good to start with.

bargainbird

Thanks for all your suggestions, they can't have a dongle we're in the middle of nowhere so rubbish coverage boooooo. It looks like now you have to pre-pay, rather than when it just went on your bt bill. is that right ?

macman

bargainbird wrote: »

Thanks for all your suggestions, they can't have a dongle we're in the middle of nowhere so rubbish coverage boooooo. It looks like now you have to pre-pay, rather than when it just went on your bt bill. is that right ?

It's not pre-pay. It's either PAYG (call costs are added to your BT bill and BT take a cut) or unmetered, whereby you pay a fixed monthly sub.
Please refer to link given in my earlier post.
But dial up really is not worth it these days.

Eric_Pisch

macman wrote: »

It's not pre-pay. It's either PAYG (call costs are added to your BT bill and BT take a cut) or unmetered, whereby you pay a fixed monthly sub.
Please refer to link given in my earlier post.
But dial up really is not worth it these days.

i lost my net a little while ago when some builders went though a cable in a tunnel in london, so i got out my trust and dusty modem, but being realistic with all the graphics and flash etc that modern websites have it was near useless

PlutoinCapricorn

I agree about dialup being almost useless now: even mobile broadband has been affected. In 2008, 1gb per month was ample, but I have noticed that my allowance does not last so long because of all the moving ads etc.

By the way, has the OP checked the 3 network coverage recently? Someone on MSE reported using a dongle in a caravan in a remote area without any problems.

web_ferret

PlutoinCapricorn wrote: »

I agree about dialup being almost useless now: even mobile broadband has been affected. In 2008, 1gb per month was ample, but I have noticed that my allowance does not last so long because of all the moving ads etc.

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Use the firefox browser with the add on of ad block plus.Tthis blocks most ads and saves on usage and speeds up page loading.

Donnie

BT do still do it, here. But it's expensive, in my opinion. Especially so because of connection charges.