Does anyone know free dial-up internet services in Queens? (Accord: purchase, costs)

[donnyre]

I don't have money for broadband internet so I guess I need to go with free dial-up (since dial-up these days cost the same as DSL anyway)...but I don't have a landline phone service. Are there any dial-up internet services in the Queens area that will set me up with dial-up internet service without a landline phone?

[mc33433]

How do you do dial-up without a landline? Or maybe I just remember dial-up differently.

[omigawd]

You need a landline to have dial-up internet. You connect to the internet through the phone (landline) line. (Does dial-up internet even exist anymore?????).

[donnyre]

Ah. Well if that's true, then the phone landline bill will probably be higher than the $10/month dial-up service anyway...I might as well get the $15/month DSL plan since Verizon tells me I don't need to get phone service for DSL.

[mc33433]

I googled it and apparently Earthlink dialup and a few others still exist. But you would need a landline, like we've already pointed out.

[donnyre]

Originally Posted by omigawd

You need a landline to have dial-up internet. You connect to the internet through the phone (landline) line. (Does dial-up internet even exist anymore?????).

Yes, I'm sure many people who don't have broadband available in their area either have dial-up or satellite service, I think...

According to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, there are still several million AOL subscribers: [url]http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1468516/000119312510176095/d10q.htm[/url]

[Henna]

See if you can split wireless internet with one of your neighbors. That will lower your costs, and their costs as well.

[Bronxguyanese]

If you want internet just use your mobile phone or use your mobilr phone as a tether or as a wireless hotspot.

[Kefir King]

Does dial-up internet even exist anymore?????).

They exist and they are still abou $10 a month. But internet pages have gotten so much more complex in the last decade that I would think a 50Kbps connection would be worthless except for e-mail and the very occasional bulletin board. (Call it up before going to bed so it's ready by morning.)


If I couldn't afford a high speed line and did or didn't have a landline, I would survive with frequent trips to the library computers (and Wi-fi connection if I could afford a laptop.)


donnyre,
Do you have cable TV?

[donnyre]

No, I don't have any phone services (landline or mobile) nor any television services. If I had the money for that I probably wouldn't be asking how to get free internet heh

In any case, I think I've found one but I think I need to purchase a dial-up modem and figure out how to use it because I don't think my computer has one