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what are the cheapest/best unlimited dialup isps that work with macs (0S 9.1, i think) in the uk?

(this is a question for anna.)

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 5 February 2004 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm still with v21 dialup for a tenner a month. Unlimited = 42 hours a week. It's increasingly hard to get a connection in early-mid evening, though, so I don't know I'd recommend it. Should work with OS9 - getting it to work with OSX was actually quite straightforward though the instructions assumed you had a PC and I ended up having to make a quick call to their customer support.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 February 2004 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

in theory any isp should work with os9 apart from aol.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 5 February 2004 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

is that true of broadband too, ed, or is there more of an issue there?

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Man, I'm just dying to get away from Easynet (their mail service SUXORS!!!) so maybe I should use this opportunity/thread, too...

― the river fleet, Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Toby - if you're talking about ADSL and you use an ethernet rather than USB modem, pretty much, I think. AOL probably excluded, again.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

(do an ILE search on broadband for threads where I was asking about mac broadband before I got all broke and postponed the idea)

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 February 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks nick; the usb vs ethernet thing wass the missing link in my knowledge.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

For what it's worth, I've been using a USB modem on OSX with btbroadband (the 'no-frills' one that gets added to your phone bill) for a little over a year now, and am very happy with it.

Curiously though, I found it incredibly slow (as in, roughly the same speed as the 56k modem I'd just thrown away) in 9.1. Not quite sure why...

― strophic (strophic), Thursday, 5 February 2004 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

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