For what it is worth I can say that I have been on Ultranet, RCN and Cyberonic dial-up accounts quite a bit, and I have some experience with Netway as well. Ultranet got eaten (too bad too.) I found RCN's service to be very solid and reliable, but their billing policies have a tendency towards the duplicitous. Also the service line leads into endless oblivion, and they have a policy of never letting you get a name or a service tech back on the line, or even a consistent call center. I was less than a fan. Cyberonic has been solid so far (using it since January), and the tech line has not required hours on hold. I have been pretty happy with them. Buy a year with Cyberonic and it works out to $13.99 a month. Buy two years up front and it is less. Unlimited dialup, with a restriction of keeping any one log on to under 8 hours (thought they have not pulled the plug on an active transfer at 8 hours for me, just a dead line) Also Cyberonic has an office in Worcester. Netway is ok, but the pipe gets real small during the busy part of the day and you want to shoot yourself waiting for stuff (folks with their own cable modem have no idea how close you live to insanity on a dial up line to begin with so any further constriction is pure torture.) My thoughts. Ignore them. Colin On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 08:41:51 -0500, Stephen C. Daukas wrote:

A friend of mine has a small business in Westborough and I helped put together a web site for him. He now wants to dump AOL and get a less expensive "dial-up account".

Anyone have a recommendation? He is paying ~$25/month for AOL... He doesn't want/need Charter, just wants to check mail a few times during the day.

Also, anyone know if you can set-up email forwarding in AOL?

Thanks! Steve

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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Stephen C. Daukas wrote: SCD> A friend of mine has a small business in Westborough and I helped put SCD> together a web site for him. He now wants to dump AOL and get a less SCD> expensive "dial-up account". SCD> SCD> Anyone have a recommendation? He is paying ~$25/month for AOL... He SCD> doesn't want/need Charter, just wants to check mail a few times during the SCD> day. Speaking of which, does anyone have any experience with either gis.net or thecia.net ? $20 set-up fee, $14.95/month. prepay 6 or more months, it's $11.95/month. sign-up online, and you get $5 off teh $20 set-up fee ($15 instead). I'm looking for a better plan than the AT&T Worldnet service that my mother has. She used to be on AT&T's 7/7 plan ($7/mo., 7c/min long distance, the basic ATT Worldnet service (150 hours/mo., with ads)), but ATT just dropped herfrom that with no warning (saying that thethe plan was no longer offered), so now she's stuck looking for long distance service and also internet service. (The ATT Worldnet alone is >$15/mo.) In her experience, I can definately say to stay away from Juno (and since they're with NetZero now...) -- --==*==-- --==*==-- Michelle R. Vadeboncoeur --==*==-- --==*==-- mrv@kluge.net: http://www.kluge.net/~mrv/