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Any free trials on dialup (or 1 month contract)

Now that Fast4 have kicked me off I need a dialup account for a few weeks until our exchange is enabled for Broadband.

Any free trials or 1 month contract ISPs about?

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  • alared
    alared Posts: 4,029 Forumite
    AOL,pick up a disk from Dixons
  • GeoThermal
    GeoThermal Posts: 682 Forumite
    Anyone other than AOL? Don't really want to load their software.
  • vernall
    vernall Posts: 561 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper
    GeoThermal wrote:
    Now that Fast4 have kicked me off I need a dialup account for a few weeks until our exchange is enabled for Broadband.

    Any free trials or 1 month contract ISPs about?

    just out of interest did they kick you off because you reconnected too much LOL
    thats what they did to me,had a friend that was going through a pretty rough time and wanted to talk,we spent a few nights chatting on MSN for about 8 hours each night,thats why they kicked me off cos i reconnected again straight away.They said they though i wasnt giving other users a chance to connect,although i cant see that many people wanting to connect at 2,3,4,5 in the morning and of course no mention of the hours ive spent trying to connect to them in the past LOL

    I picked up an AOL disk last week to tide me over till i get BB connected on Thursday,dont know if it my laptop but AOL hasnt half slowed it down a heck of a lot.Roll on Thursday so as I can get rid of AOL
  • andy88_2
    andy88_2 Posts: 3,676 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I think many ISPs count their payg as a trial account, so I'd be surprised if you found a free trial
  • GeoThermal
    GeoThermal Posts: 682 Forumite
    Yeah they seem thin on the ground. Used to be most gave a free month on their anytime deals. Looks like it will have to be AOL.

    Signed up no problem but their software download is huge, going to take hours! Not doing that on a PAYG connection. Joined up with OpenSurf, which gives 72 hours for a £1.50 text message. Will download the software using that.
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