Modem & Dial up ISP suggestions

shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
edited August 2005 in Science & Tech
My grandma is getting a computer so she can e-mail people and harass her family. Broadband is still relatively expensive where she is, and all she really needs is a 56k connection. Basically - what are your suggestions for a modem and Dial Up ISP

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  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited August 2005
    CompuServe worked great for my parents. It's slow, but a lot faster than most dialup connections (at least in our area).

    I think Earthlink is good also, but I dont know.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    AT&T WorldNet is a good choice, as is Earthlink.
  • flyriceflyrice
    edited August 2005
    See if you can find a cheap ISP in her area. Sometimes, broadband companies will have 384K (I know Charter does) connections. They may run some specials on it.

    And there's always NetZero.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    seeing as how I live in the same area, pretty much the only broadband choice comes from verizon. And it sucks. The naked DSL price isn't reasonable, especially if all she's going to do is e-mail.
  • sfleurietsfleuriet Texas New
    edited August 2005
    well my SBC DSL price is $14.95/month, the same as most dialup companies. I get 1250kbps down, 330kbps up.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    $20 for the first 3 months, $30 after that for crappy verizon dsl.

    I don't remember if it's a big deal or not anymore, but should I look for a hardware modem, rather than a winmodem? She'll be running only xp anyways.
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited August 2005
    If she needs a 56k modem something by usr/3com is always the best :).
  • flyriceflyrice
    edited August 2005
    Consider that even though she says she may be only using it for e-mail, she may get nosy about the WWW one day...
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    not before she dies.
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