# free and good isp?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-and-good-isp/84632
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 30, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-and-good-isp/84632 "2001-09-30T15:40:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![berdollos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@berdollos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/berdollos)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-and-good-isp/84632/1 "2001-09-30T15:40:06Z")

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I’m tired of paying 200 plus a year to MSN. Anybody know a free and good ISP?

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### Author: ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2001, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-and-good-isp/84632/2 "2001-09-30T16:18:08Z")

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Free and \*\*good[/] ISP…isn’t that sorta like “Military Intelligence”?

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### Author: ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2001, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-and-good-isp/84632/3 "2001-09-30T16:19:19Z")

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geez

It was a long night.

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### Author: ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2001, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-and-good-isp/84632/4 "2001-09-30T21:46:29Z")

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Last I heard, pretty much all of them had figured out that advertising wasn’t going to pay the bills, and they couldn’t make any money if they didn’t charge anything.

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### Author: ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-and-good-isp/84632/5 "2001-10-01T01:54:47Z")

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I use ATT’s 7/7 offer. For $7/mo, I get good unlimited internet access and anytime long distance state-to-state for 7 cents per minute. That’s the best I could find.

StG
