netscapeonline.co.uk

After using loads of ISP's I then saw this offer in EB and the offer of getting points was too good to be true. Well I got my points. I was surprised that they allow unlimited e-mail addreses though there a bit long. The Connecttion is not very good, the best i can get at the most is about 49,999 on a 56k modem. It takes me about 4 attempts to get connected. But once on the speed is good and the software is good. I declined there "offer" to download Netscape Browser so im using Netscape as my ISP with MSIE as my Browser. I really like this ISP and I have quite a few others as backup just in case. ...

etscape online is a fairly easy ISP to sign up for. It isn`t the best of the bunch by a long shot, but they are a nice ISP that just plods along doing whatever you want. Don`t confuse this with the Netscape browser. Obviously they reccomend Netscape when you sign up but you don`t have to use it to use the ISP. You can use Internet Explorer (a much classier browser in every way), Opera or anything else you want. Once you have signed up (easy to do from the CD, just follow the instructions) you get a little program to run that launches whenever your computer needs a connection to the internet. You can choose to connect to the net, open your broswer, ...

Before defecting to BT Internet, I spent nearly a year with Netscape Online and was quite impressed. Of course being a Netscape fan from way before IE even existed, I'm admittedly a teensy bit biased, but this is clearly a top notch effort by the Netscape company, albeit at a slight cost phone calls wise. Their connections were always speedy, and obviouslty as this is an older model of the free internet acccess companies there is no auto disconnection (which was nice) Despite only having a BT line I still oftne got a connection of 50667 bps, which is pretty quick for a 56k modem, and stuff fairly flew down the phone line to my PC, almost always at ...