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How to dial up for internet?
 

Do I need to open home phone service first?


Now I just have DSL and CABLE for internet.. I bet dial up is best for me.


Thanks

dial up is the best! you need a phone service, my setup right now is At&t $25 per month unlimited calling nationwide and $7.99 per month for Juno Dial up.

You do need home phone service - unless there are ways to connect your computer to your cell phone for dial-up (don't know if that is doable though). I use home service.

do new laptops still come with internal dialup modems?

What is the cheapest home phone service in NYC, for dial up purpose?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-56K-USB-...item1c1e6395a5

56K USB V.92 External Dial Up Voice Fax Data Modem

Do laptops need this in order to dial up?=}

Which dialup company is best for NYC?

Dial-up is the way to go! That is of course for stealth for amazon and ebay. Terrible for anything else though as we all know, is much too slow.

yes, thats what i use on my laptop just make sure you disable the network drivers so the only way to get online is by dial up

Laptops must use such a thing?

they donot have modem for dial up?

Metconnect is free dialup in NY. At least last year it was. You still need a phone service at home.

yes all the new laptops dont have modem dial built in anymore, even my new desktop doesnt have one.

Hope you don't mind the dreaded 5kb/s peak downloading speed

I like AOL dial-up.

You can set-up 7 different e-mail accounts without having to fill out applications. You can also look at all 7 mail boxes at the same time and don't have to mess with mail forwarding.

That and not having to worry about IP's are the nice features. The slow speed is real annoying. but if you open a bunch of windows you can read one of them while the other ones are loading.

Thanks for sharing Metconnect. It is pretty good.


Are all dialup the same speed? Always get different IPs?

yes ip address is always diffèrent everytime you connect to dial up

Also aim for a nice time of day when not too busy.

So, what if I do not have phone service in my house, but I do have phone jacks around. Can I use those for things like netzero?

ONLY if you have home phone service enabled 'Dino - those jacks are useless otherwise - the line is dead with no signal.

Just tether your phone. Its faster

:pry:Dial Up Is Slow As Hell :pry: :good:

Not everyone have a smartphone with tethering feature, or data plan at all

lol! so true i get impatient on dial up :(