Free ISP

[zeruty]

peterpur: they may just lease the access from earthlink...or they may just lease it from the same people earthlink leases it

and if they are hacked accounts or something....well, you dont know that. I dont see why you would get in trouble

 

[Bad Dude]

SO are they any good? or better yet, are they safe to give your cc?

 

[Quickfingerz]

Hopefully this one doesn't go belly-up.

 

[JumpOnDeals]

Here is an article about Hackers who got into Earthlinks system.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41934,00.html
I'm not sure if this is in anyway related though.
Steve

 

[RU482]

INTERESTING

The dialup # for Westfield, IN is the same as my local Earthlink Dial-up Number

Something smells fishy here

 

[fargus]

Check this for a listing of free ISP's in the US: site (linked)

It's not uncommon to see the same access numbers for different ISP's.... Most of them lease ports from concentrators like Spinway or OnFree... it's not an indicator of fishiness, just a cheaper way of doing business than having to build their own POP in all those areas.

 

[LadyNiniane]

Just for the record - Earthlink owns very few POPs (local access Points of Presence). What they have is a combo of leased UUNet/WorldCom numbers and a motley collection of POPs in various locations that they picked up when they bought up other ISPs, some of which were also leased from old MCI and Gridnet. (MindSpring and Netcom garnered them quite a stack.)

In our area, all of the listed "local access" numbers for Earthlink are the same as those for anyone using a UUNet/WorldCom POP (which includes all of the current crop of "free" ISPs), as well as a large majority of pay ISPs who have attempted to provide a true local number for us boonie-ites. End result is that if you regularly get busies dialing into one ISP, changing providers isn't likely to fix the problem...

I knew that I was in for trouble when I discovered that my local access for Earthlink was one digit different than the local access number provided as my port to a client's firewall (handled through UUNet PAL/Compuserve). Neither one of them is usable during peak hours - busy signals all the time.

Lady Niniane

 

[ghoul]

Hmm. Dont like living big brothers house, even if the rent is free.



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And what is this &quot;Shopping Mall account&quot; thing?



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And I guess spamming your friends is encouraged (helps them build their email lists)



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Why do they want your credit card if the service is free?

 

[Pretty Cool]

I guess nobody read my previous post.

Archangel's TOS

Netzero's TOS

Archangel ripped off Netzero's TOS. In Archangel's agreement, &quot;zeroport&quot; is mentioned. (zeroport is Netzero's adbar) Even the lawyer and city mentioned is identical.

Although nobody here has had any problems, other people who have installed this program claimed that their virus scanners found an AOL Trojan. If anybody here ran this program, check to archangel.exe to see if you read messages about sending AOL account information to their administrators.

 

[rich1er]

yeah, that website seems fishy.....well i'm happy with my cable connection

 

[CrazyRaider]

damn i dont got a credit card number

 

[Varborta]

hum, its too weird my instance tells me to wait and see.

 

[Moltnrok]

Here in KS many of the ISP's have the same dial-up numbers. I know of many ISP's in Wichita but it appears there are only about 6 numbers for all of the different ISP's.
I was running it yesterday, but it appears to be pretty unstable. It will work hour to hour, but then won't let you login later for no apparent reason.

 

[MrClemson]

well, maybe a silly question
do I have to install that dialup program in my computer
I tried those three 800 #s, looked good to me
but I don't know if they will charge me later