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Does any one know of a PAYG dial up just to use when I move, until I get my broadband up and running.
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Most use 3G or 4G from mobile rather than dial up now
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The author of the above post is a thinkbroadband staff member. It may not constitute an official statement on behalf of thinkbroadband.
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I have a phone, but where I am moving to, it is a little spotty the mobile connection and not always able to reach websites or use the apps, that's why I wanted to use a dial up connection for the odd thing I needed to do. Thanks for the reply.
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you could try this one: http://freeola.com/dial-up-internet/
or look for wifi access e.g. Tescos or coffee shops. Also your local library should have PCs you can use for web browsing.
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Given the size of many web pages and the shift towards 'hero' sized graphics on many, dial-up access will probably be so painful that saving up your web use until you get to a decent connection would be better.
Perhaps rather than borrowing a bowl of sugar, borrow a little of the neighbours Wi-Fi with their permission of course.
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The author of the above post is a thinkbroadband staff member. It may not constitute an official statement on behalf of thinkbroadband.
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There will more than likely be a BT WiFi hotspot around from a BT customer - not sure of the prices but as long as it is working correctly will likely be more tolerable than dialup.
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It depends on location, in my village area I'm the only one offering BT FON to nearby users.
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When I moved house about 6 years ago it took BT 3 weeks to get my phone working, despite there was an existing line. Reason given was that the previous owner had forgotten to cancel. Despite many calls to them and proof that I was the current owner, they would not budge. Then a further week after the phone was enabled for broadband to be enabled (completely ridiculous - how long does it actually take to enable it at the exchange?!)
I tried using an Orange dongle but without 3G the data rate was almost unusable for anything except email. Ended up renting an office in a place nearby - fortunately the company I worked for paid for it.
Still think it's crazy that electricity, gas, water are available from day 1 you move in, but phone/broadband are not!
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Your story reminds of a time I changed provider and BT cocked up and it took seven weeks before I was connected.
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Cheers Keith, it will be just for emails mainly, not browsing the web, unless it is absolutely necessary
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I was there last week and there is no BT hot spot, but thank you for the reply.
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We still have a dial up number if you still need this - as others have said it will be slow ... but should still work 
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The above post has been made by an ISP REPRESENTATIVE (although not necessarily the ISP being discussed in the post).
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Can't find any details on your website, could you PM the details to me, handy to have a choice which one to use. Thanks.
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When I moved to small village in Cotswolds 2 years ago just before Xmas BT engineer made an appointment to check existing ( recently disconnected) line for a saturday afternoon. I was very impressed with this except he did not show up. I was then sent a letter ( no phone you see) saying I was not at home ( lies) and that next available appointment would be 3 months ahead! Luckily my son had already moved in next door and his BB was connected by BT prior to him actually moving in so I was able to use his wifi until my complaints reached top of Openreach. It still took nearly 2 months to get connected.Now I've reached end of contract I will change to Sky.
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Number is
0844 848 1069
or
0845 350 2999
Login as merula/merula and you should have internet
Any problems just ask
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The above post has been made by an ISP REPRESENTATIVE (although not necessarily the ISP being discussed in the post).
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I have a phone, but where I am moving to, it is a little spotty the mobile connection and not always able to reach websites or use the apps, that's why I wanted to use a dial up connection for the odd thing I needed to do. Thanks for the reply.
When I go on holiday to rented accommodation, I take a free PAYG SIM for each of the networks and then find which works best. Modern web pages are really to complex for 56kbps dial up.
Michael Chare
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Given the size of many web pages and the shift towards 'hero' sized graphics on many, dial-up access will probably be so painful that saving up your web use until you get to a decent connection would be better.
Email with a desktop program (Outlook, Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird, Mail on a Mac etc) is OK with a dial up connection.
Perhaps rather than borrowing a bowl of sugar, borrow a little of the neighbours Wi-Fi with their permission of course.
That's a nice way of putting it!
OP, perhaps just make sure they know you've placed an order for your own connection and it's in the pipeline so you're not going to be using it forever, and maybe ask if it has a usage cap.
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That is shocking. How do companies get away with lying like this?
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Thank you, noted the details own for when I move.
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I just want to use it for email, not going on websites, unless I really have to. I wouldn't want to ask the neighbours if I could use their wifi as it is only temporary.
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Does any one know of a PAYG dial up just to use when I move, until I get my broadband up and running. Freeola dial-up have been using them for years, the best I know of these days and we have a web address with them still in use.
http://freeola.com/dial-up-internet/
http://freeola.com/dial-up-internet/instant-dialup-a...
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Thanks, but I have moved and have had my broadband connection (with Vivaciti) for a couple of weeks now, so no longer needed, but the information may be useful to someone else.
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