greatxscape.com

<UPDATE> Telnet has now ceased service and completely free internet calls have gone with it! This, however, does not mean greatXscape is no more. It is alive and well and I am with BT now and I am still getting fast connections as I was with Telnet. It isn't a totally free ISP anymore hence my conversion to AOL - I will review it in the very near future. </UPDATE> I came accross a greatXscape disk sometime ago, I forget where, but it didn't overly impress me with looks but the title did catch my eye, "Free internet at off-peak times". Wey-hey, I thought. Bye, bye Freeserve is the kind of thought you have. ...  Read the complete review

I came accross a greatXscape disk sometime ago, I forget where, but it didn't overly impress me with looks but the title did catch my eye, "Free internet at off-peak times". Wey-hey, I thought. Bye, bye Freeserve is the kind of thought you have. Well, I've been on the service for about six months and not a single thing has gone wrong and which will impress you even more is that I have only encountered a busy line once, all other times I've connected first time. The connection speeds are the fastest I have ever experienced. About 44kb/s to 48kb/s. I have never come accross these on BT, Virgin or even Freeserve. What I must tell ...  Read the complete review

Before I begin, let me describe this service. Basically, you change your telco to Telnet, and this ISP will give you unmetered off-peak access to the internet. Well, this sounded fantastic, so I singned up. I was a little apprehensive having seen so many other un-metered services go belly-up, and I knew how long it could take to change telcos, but I tried anyway. Thank god I did! Admittedly, there were a few hitches during the change-over, but within a month I was set-up. Not only was I able to get a connection first time, every time, but the speed of the service was top class. Infact, the whole package was better than many paid services! True, I did ...  Read the complete review

I suppose that I should have learnt my lesson with all the troubles I had signing up to this company and 'Xscaped' while I could but unfortunately I didn't. I guess I should start at the beginning. GreatXscape is an ISP that offers a similar service to what Screaming.net used to. That is if you switch your telephone billing to their phone company (Telnet Residential in this case) you will receive 'free, unlimited off-peak internet access'. Sounds too good to be true? After all with all the publicised problems that Screaming.net had been having surely GreatXscape wouldn't be any better? What the heck I thought and ...  Read the complete review