Thread: Remember "0800" Unlimited Dialup Access

Quote: Originally Posted by TeaCosy Clara, aka FreeUK, still offer free dialup with web space and email (and Usenet IIRC) - you just have to have your own caller ID switched on. There's also the extra BT cost per minute. FreeUK also have a contract BB package (with email, webspace, usenet) which used to be reasonable value, but is nowadays expensive at £22.99 a month for a half-meg connection = dearer than muuuuuuch faster connections...

Quote: Originally Posted by kev I remember Xtreme too - I also remember going on line in the evening for 39 minute bursts as calls of less than 40p didn't show on the phone bill (1p/minute)... Haha great plan! That way nobody would know when you had been on the internet. What did you do, go on for 39 minutes, disconnect and then go on again?

Quote: Originally Posted by Jan321 Are there any free dialup services still available at all? I mean really free, ie 0800 not payg. Thanks Yeah, FreeUK (as above), but your phone bill will be

Quote: Originally Posted by Ignitionnet RedHotAnt.......know that there was a LOT of account sharing going on. Let's put it this way....at the time I was already using Usenet, and a lot of the account details were listed on there....I think that's one of the main reasons they went bust. I remember sitting listening to Big Brother series 1 audio feed using RHA accounts that I'd got from Usenet! Those were the days!

Did anybody else get caught up in the "0800" dialup access mess all those years ago. Big Blue Sky Red Hot Ant XStream Just to name a few I remember paying Big Blue Sky £30 what they said was 1 years unlimited free access via a 0800 dial up number. Lasted a month before they went bust. Mind you I got my moneys worth. Also remember ic24 who offered free dialup access at weekends without a subscription. A bugger to get...

I still have some AOL and Freeserve CDs in my "man drawer". Would you believe there is even a Compuserve disc in there too

Quote: Originally Posted by mcyates wow!!! This thread is amazing lol, brings back so many memories or sitting at your pc at 11:59 trying to connect, listening to your modem baking those weird dialling tones lol. Then you were connected, but viewing ads, I used to use xstream or something, was good, 2 hours of free internet access. Anyone rember Alladvantage!! www.alladvantage.com I made £300 from that site haha I was going to ask why...

RedHotAnt with dual channel ISDN was just fantastic... one of their biggest issues was that they didn't actually restrict the amount of logins per username / password nor did they restrict on CLID, watched a friend of mine connect 30 ISDN channels to them in one hit and know that there was a LOT of account sharing going on. Ah well I certainly got my money's worth for my 50 quid

Ads - Freeserve when they launched and X-stream. Used X-Stream when I could get a connection. Also LineOne offered a service so long as you used their dialler and routed regular calls through a company called Quip. Worked very well, tied up the phone lines most evenings much to my parents' dissapointment! Back then on Nynex cable phone, we had a local "ISP" called Parallax that had a local number, therefore free I...

I used Red Hot Ant - paid them £50 and got unlimited access for about nine months, then they went bust, so it was a good deal for me. I remember a lot of engaged tones at peak times, but you could almost always get on within a few minutes if you kept dialling.