Dial up access

GWR5164

Hi, I’m wondering if anyone can help, I have a pensioner friend who only uses the internet very occasionally, she had a dial up connection that I set up for her, but it’s been terminated.
Are there any free dial up services available in the u.k.

regards
Amanda

Neil_Jones

http://www.nippyinternet.co.uk/ (the "email sign up" doesn't work but I presume the rest of it does?)

http://www.quikinternet.co.uk/dialup.php

There may not be many options as broadband is the standard option now, and BT terminated it themselves seven years ago.

GWR5164

Nippy is no longer working, over the last few days I’ve been dialling the numbers given on my phone and listening for computer noises to no avail.

GWR5164

Quik internet has gone as well 

JJ_Egan

Is not dial up more expensive than something like BT basic

Roland_Sausage

Depending on how occasional it is, you can get a SIM from Three which gives 200 MB per month of free data. You’ll obviously need a dongle or router to put it into.

Or they can pay £60 and get 24GB of data which will last 24 months. That is only £2.50 a month (excluding the cost of any hardware) so it maybe works out cheaper than the dial up.

And It’ll probably be a lot more bearable to use than dial up as well.

Neil_Jones

Nippy was posted on the Plusnet forums so if its discontinued that's only happened in the last seven months, though a lot of the dial-up providers back in the day would just use somebody else to provide the service and stick their own authentication on top of it, so they'd only pay for the services and get the bulk of their income from the cost of the calls.  Since then of course its become far cheaper and far better value to broadband things, so a lot of the dial-up internet providers went by the wayside as their costs went through the roof and people started getting unlimited packages, and because broadband is so cheap and so universal, there is no demand for the slower technology.

I think mobile internet would be the better way to go.  Or if the OP's friend has a laptop, nothing stopping them hopping onto a public wifi spot somewhere (supermarket, fast food, library etc) to use that, since that wouldn't cost you any more than the time to get to those venues.