Great value (Strayduck)

Member Name: lenny0

Product:	Strayduck
Date:	18/02/01 (145 review reads)
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Advantages: One week in three free

Disadvantages: None

I started using Strayduck a couple of months ago having read a fairly positive review on Dooyou.

The idea for those of you who haven't come across Strayduck before is that you dial in as normal for two weeks out of every three and then in the third week Strayduck divide the total of the minutes you were online in the first two weeks in two and you get that amount of time online on a freephone number.

In case that wasn't the best description ever, here's an example :

Week 1 (normal dial-in) : online with Strayduck for 600 minutes.

Week 2 (normal dial-in) : online with Strayduck for 800 minutes.

Week 3 (freephone dial in) : 700 minutes (600 minutes + 800 minutes divided by 2).

To be honest, I expected the thing to fall apart in the third week, with the freephone number being unavailable or being an extemely slow connection.

But that hasn't proven the case. So far I have actually ended up with more free minutes than I should have had. In the first free week I was supposed to have about 750 free minutes which I used. However, when I ran out of minutes the Strayduck launcher chucked another 80 minutes onto my free time. Can't be bad.

The customer service is excellent as well. A couple of weeks ago I got my phone bill and noticed that I had been charged for a couple of hours when I was dialing in free. I mailed Strayduck to query it and got a reply within the hour explaining that they had checked their logs and I had dialed in to the freephone number. I got in touch with the phone company who admitted it was their fault - problem solved.

I have never had a problem dialing in on either the main number or the freephone number and the connection speed is as good as any other ISP I've used.

Go on - dial in through Strayduck, you really can't lose.

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