# How do you get Free Internet?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-free-internet/87537>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 15, 2001, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-free-internet/87537 "2001-10-15T19:04:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-free-internet/87537/1 "2001-10-15T19:04:44Z")

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Does anyone have a website recommendation for free internet access? And, are these sites slow due to excessive pop-up ads, for example?

- Jinx

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**Author:** ![Payne\_N.Diaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Payne\_N.Diaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Payne_N.Diaz)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-free-internet/87537/2 "2001-10-15T19:09:09Z")

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I am not aware of any free internet access, except maybe NetZero–they all went belly-up or switched to pay services. The one I used, BlueLight from Kmart, did away with their freebie unless you buy a set amount from their website. They suck, and before I give my credit card number to Kmart Fallapart over the web, I’ll drive 5 miles to the freaking store.

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-free-internet/87537/3 "2001-10-15T19:20:25Z")

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Juno merged with NetZero and it still sucks. The ad banners are ubiquitous, they slow the whole thing down to a baby’s crawl. Plus, they only allow you a _very_ limited number of on-line hours per day, some incredibly low number like, I dunno, :rolleyes: “two” :rolleyes: and if you exceed that, then you get a cheerful error message, “Sorry, you’re an Internet hog, you can only log on after 3 a.m. from now on, no second chances, no apologies solicited or accepted”, no kidding.

Pay the man, Jinx. Ain’t no such thing as Free Internet any more. ☹

We’ve got free MSN until next April because the new computer we bought last April came with 1 year’s free MSN. I suppose in 6 months we’ll have to bite the “Pay the man” bullet ourselves. [sigh]

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-get-free-internet/87537/4 "2001-10-15T22:30:54Z")

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Sure, [juno.com](http://juno.com) check to see if they have a nbr near you.

Isn’t MSN only $12 from costco?