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Many
dial up Internet access providers offer high speed dial up
plans
along with non high speed. The additional cost for accelerated dial up
is nominal and definitely worth the small extra monthly cost.
Prices on
average for most dial up ISP accounts range from $5 or
10/month
for non high speed, up to $15/month for high speed access. With the
amount
of dial up Internet access providers available, there is no
reason
to spend more than $15 per month for a high speed dial up account.
I've used
several different dial up Internet access providers over the
years. In my opinion there isn't one that stands out as being any
faster than the other. They all work much the same
way as far as how they accomplish dial up acceleration. |
The table
below shows popular dial up Internet access providers prices for high
speed dial up Internet.
| Dial up
internet access providers |
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High speed unlimited dial up access account
Cost per
month
Cost per month if paid one year up front
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Basic
ISP
$10.95
$10.95 |
Earthlink
$21.95
$12.50 |
Netzero
$14.95
$9.95 |
AOL
$23.90
$23.90
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Juno
$14.95
$9.95
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Toast.net
$12.95
$10.95 |
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Most dial
up
Internet access providers offer the same features,
an email
address or several email addresses, a personal webpage, email virus
protection, phone support, maybe a price break for the first few
months. Personally when I am choosing dial up
internet access providers, I am only concerned with high speed dial up,
unlimited access and the monthly price. I didn't include other features
in the
chart
above. Try not to get get too caught up in other features.
I
will say I prefer english phone support over phone
support that was outsourced to a non english speaking country. It makes
it much easier for me to understand who I am talking to because english
is my
native language.
Luckily I don't need to use phone support regularly. In fact
in the 2
years I have been with Basic
ISP Ive only used it once. Again I didn't
include it in the chart, but it might be something I would keep in mind
when shopping for dial up ISPs.
I
don't use the email, webpage, drive space etc.... that
normally
comes with any high speed dial up account in case I need to
change
dial up internet access providers. What if the dial up service im with
becomes difficult to connect to, raises their price or I don't want to
pay for service a YEAR in advance? I may feel obligated to stay because
everyone I know associates me with my dial up Internet account
personal addresses.
There are many websites on the Internet that offer all
the previous mentioned features for free. Now if I ever need to change
dial up Internet access providers, all my personal addresses will stay
the same.
Purchasing a high speed dial up
account
Ive
been using Basic
ISP for years now. Standard dial up Internet is only
$8.95 per month, accelerated dial up is $10.95 per month. Both are
unlimited access. American tech support is unlimited and free. There are no contracts and you aren't forced to pay a large up
front money fee to get a price break. No penalties
or fees if you leave, cancel anytime, and it comes with a 30 day money
back guarantee.
I didn't
need to send away for a disc for their software. Basic
Isp can be
installed with 2 small files. Before switching to Basic Isp,
I downloaded and installed their software prior
to leaving my old dial up Internet access provider.
First download and
install the dialer software. The dialer file is less than 1.5MG in
length. Next download and install the high speed Internet
file
which is 3MG long. Both files are small enough to be easily
downloaded over any dial up connection.
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You
can access Basic
ISP acceleration features through the high speed
dial up menu. The high speed icon will become active once
your
online. The icon is the small green ball in Windows systray at
the lower
right hand side of the computer screen. You can open the high speed
menu by hovering the mouse pointer over the high speed icon
and right
clicking once.
Here you can turn high speed dial up
on or off and change acceleration settings. You can also view how much
time you've saved surfing the web with high speed dial up
turned
on vs. having it turned off.
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In the settings menu under the
features tab its shows Basic
ISP high speed not only speeds up web
browsing, but also increases the speed of Macromedia Flash
(online videos), File Transfer Protocol and blocks unwanted
Internet ads. Email is accelerated as well.
Due
to the
popularity of YouTube, I get alot of questions asking about how to
speed up video clip downloads. No matter what you do, downloading
online video is going to be slow on dial up. High speed dial up
acceleration
goes a long way to help speed up the process. Downloading a 1
minute flash video clip using high speed dial up means the
difference
between the download taking 10 minutes or an hour. |
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