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ARRR yes the internet, well now 90% of the UK public have access to the internet one way or the other, but a question I have been asked many times is what ISP (internet Service Provider) should I use, and I for one am sick and tired of all these adverts on TV for AOL, BT, Freeserve etc.
AOL says on their advert, ‘Number 1 for the internet’ is this true?? Because am I mistaken but on all the Freeserve adverts it says (surprise, surprise) ‘Number 1 for the internet’ WHAT IS GOING ON????
BT are not much better, all their adverts show quick easy access with no problems, (great just what we want) but no, and I speak from experience, when I tried to logg on what did I get ‘the telephone network is busy at the moment’ FOR 2 WHOLE HOURS!!!!! And well let’s just say I left BT there and then.
So on to the Title, Freeserve, now after that little event with BT I subscribed to Freeserve Unlimited time (which now thank god has finished)
So the thought of 24 hour internet access for only £10 a month was boss, but boy was I in for a shock, here is just a short list of things that went wrong.
1: I had very important homework to do and i needed to get some info off the net, so their i was dialing up Freeserve to go on the net (i thought anyway)i tried 100+ times to logg on but what did i get; Mrs BT Woman with her 'the telephone network is busy at the moment' so it was now 10:00pm i had been trying to go on since 6:30pm, I thought well i will ring Freeserve, so i did, and their responce, we are currently very busy because we have so many users, if you continue to try and connect im sure you will get on, and after anougher 28 times, at last we got on only to find out we were connected at 28,000 bsp, and since i have a 56K modem thats damm rubbish.
To finish it all off, after 2 minutes online it disconnected! what a fine evening i had.
And that leeds me onto me next point;
2: Freeserve say you should stay online for 2 hours WHEN you do get connected, but lets just say you are lucky if you stay on for 1 hour.
3: The Connection speed is not to good either, i have a 56K as i said before, but i can only get on between 33,333 and 48,000bps and if i am lucky 49,333bps
So my tip for anyone thinking about the internet, stay away from Freeserve!!
Thanks for reading
Danny
AOL says on their advert, ‘Number 1 for the internet’ is this true?? Because am I mistaken but on all the Freeserve adverts it says (surprise, surprise) ‘Number 1 for the internet’ WHAT IS GOING ON????
BT are not much better, all their adverts show quick easy access with no problems, (great just what we want) but no, and I speak from experience, when I tried to logg on what did I get ‘the telephone network is busy at the moment’ FOR 2 WHOLE HOURS!!!!! And well let’s just say I left BT there and then.
So on to the Title, Freeserve, now after that little event with BT I subscribed to Freeserve Unlimited time (which now thank god has finished)
So the thought of 24 hour internet access for only £10 a month was boss, but boy was I in for a shock, here is just a short list of things that went wrong.
1: I had very important homework to do and i needed to get some info off the net, so their i was dialing up Freeserve to go on the net (i thought anyway)i tried 100+ times to logg on but what did i get; Mrs BT Woman with her 'the telephone network is busy at the moment' so it was now 10:00pm i had been trying to go on since 6:30pm, I thought well i will ring Freeserve, so i did, and their responce, we are currently very busy because we have so many users, if you continue to try and connect im sure you will get on, and after anougher 28 times, at last we got on only to find out we were connected at 28,000 bsp, and since i have a 56K modem thats damm rubbish.
To finish it all off, after 2 minutes online it disconnected! what a fine evening i had.
And that leeds me onto me next point;
2: Freeserve say you should stay online for 2 hours WHEN you do get connected, but lets just say you are lucky if you stay on for 1 hour.
3: The Connection speed is not to good either, i have a 56K as i said before, but i can only get on between 33,333 and 48,000bps and if i am lucky 49,333bps
So my tip for anyone thinking about the internet, stay away from Freeserve!!
Thanks for reading
Danny
hnmmmm... are there any good ISPs in this country at all???
Sonic
Sonic
I get what my dad pays for, I have a Blueyonder cable modem also, and it rocks, pings of 30-40 on games, what more could you want??
I had freeserve for years without a single problem. I can't honestly comment on the service they provide today as I switched to Blue-yonder some time ago.
I now have broadband though Blue-yonder and haven't looked back. 24-7 connection, always on, 30mb web space and all for £25 month.
http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/ check em out...
My tip for anyone interested in getting the most out of the internet is this : You get what you PAY for !
I now have broadband though Blue-yonder and haven't looked back. 24-7 connection, always on, 30mb web space and all for £25 month.
http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/ check em out...
My tip for anyone interested in getting the most out of the internet is this : You get what you PAY for !
Just a note. The speed you were referring to (i.e. 49,333 etc) is not the speed of your connection to the internet, but the data transfer speed between the computer and the modem. Confused? Basically if you want to find out your internet connection speed, start a download, and multiply the value there (i.e. 2.3kbps) by 1024, to get the speed in comparative terms to your modem<->computer speed. Now I'm confused!
Bad luck, as soon as I posted that Freeserve were good, they messed up, takes me ages to connect now,
Just thought I'd add that I use Freeserve Off-Peak, £5.99 a month, and that seems to work fine for me, a couple of times I get cut off, but I generally connect first time round, maybe you should try that package.
ARRR yes the internet, well now 90% of the UK public have access to the internet one way or the other, but a question I have been asked many times is what ISP (internet Service Provider) should I use, and I for one am sick and tired of all these adverts on TV for AOL, BT, Freeserve etc.
AOL says on their advert, ‘Number 1 for the internet’ is this true?? Because am I mistaken but on all the Freeserve adverts it says (surprise, surprise) ‘Number 1 for the internet’ WHAT IS GOING ON????
BT are not much better, all their adverts show quick easy access with no problems, (great just what we want) but no, and I speak from experience, when I tried to logg on what did I get ‘the telephone network is busy at the moment’ FOR 2 WHOLE HOURS!!!!! And well let’s just say I left BT there and then.
So on to the Title, Freeserve, now after that little event with BT I subscribed to Freeserve Unlimited time (which now thank god has finished)
So the thought of 24 hour internet access for only £10 a month was boss, but boy was I in for a shock, here is just a short list of things that went wrong.
1: I had very important homework to do and i needed to get some info off the net, so their i was dialing up Freeserve to go on the net (i thought anyway)i tried 100+ times to logg on but what did i get; Mrs BT Woman with her 'the telephone network is busy at the moment' so it was now 10:00pm i had been trying to go on since 6:30pm, I thought well i will ring Freeserve, so i did, and their responce, we are currently very busy because we have so many users, if you continue to try and connect im sure you will get on, and after anougher 28 times, at last we got on only to find out we were connected at 28,000 bsp, and since i have a 56K modem thats damm rubbish.
To finish it all off, after 2 minutes online it disconnected! what a fine evening i had.
And that leeds me onto me next point;
2: Freeserve say you should stay online for 2 hours WHEN you do get connected, but lets just say you are lucky if you stay on for 1 hour.
3: The Connection speed is not to good either, i have a 56K as i said before, but i can only get on between 33,333 and 48,000bps and if i am lucky 49,333bps
So my tip for anyone thinking about the internet, stay away from Freeserve!!
Thanks for reading
Danny
AOL says on their advert, ‘Number 1 for the internet’ is this true?? Because am I mistaken but on all the Freeserve adverts it says (surprise, surprise) ‘Number 1 for the internet’ WHAT IS GOING ON????
BT are not much better, all their adverts show quick easy access with no problems, (great just what we want) but no, and I speak from experience, when I tried to logg on what did I get ‘the telephone network is busy at the moment’ FOR 2 WHOLE HOURS!!!!! And well let’s just say I left BT there and then.
So on to the Title, Freeserve, now after that little event with BT I subscribed to Freeserve Unlimited time (which now thank god has finished)
So the thought of 24 hour internet access for only £10 a month was boss, but boy was I in for a shock, here is just a short list of things that went wrong.
1: I had very important homework to do and i needed to get some info off the net, so their i was dialing up Freeserve to go on the net (i thought anyway)i tried 100+ times to logg on but what did i get; Mrs BT Woman with her 'the telephone network is busy at the moment' so it was now 10:00pm i had been trying to go on since 6:30pm, I thought well i will ring Freeserve, so i did, and their responce, we are currently very busy because we have so many users, if you continue to try and connect im sure you will get on, and after anougher 28 times, at last we got on only to find out we were connected at 28,000 bsp, and since i have a 56K modem thats damm rubbish.
To finish it all off, after 2 minutes online it disconnected! what a fine evening i had.
And that leeds me onto me next point;
2: Freeserve say you should stay online for 2 hours WHEN you do get connected, but lets just say you are lucky if you stay on for 1 hour.
3: The Connection speed is not to good either, i have a 56K as i said before, but i can only get on between 33,333 and 48,000bps and if i am lucky 49,333bps
So my tip for anyone thinking about the internet, stay away from Freeserve!!
Thanks for reading
Danny