broadband

[Nicola McIntosh]

hi!! 😀

i do believe it works, and it’s free!! 😀
a techy chum said so, but he also said there is alot of company’s pushing this service!! i’m not convinced myself….you don’t get anything for free in this life!! 😛 😛 😛

Nik

[Nicola McIntosh]

just had an update folks!! 😀

the reason it’s free, is once you sign up!! they are in control!! 👿

junk spam etc etc & what ever you do, do not give your credit card details!! 😀 😀 i knew there was a snag !! 😀

nik

[coolinshot]

Hi Nik (& Mr Muckle)
I do agree with you that you get nothing for free in this world, however I have signed up for this service because I can control spam, if and when it starts coming in. And there is no section of the sign-up that asks for credit card, bank, or any other information that could be used in a fraudulent way. I think of it a bit like ITV, CH4 and CH5, it’s free, in theory at least, but you do have to put up with spam tv, (adverts), in order to get it.
If the service is rubbish I will just stop using it and go back to paying for my broadband.
It doesn’t start until October anyway, so I will let you know if I have been mugged or not before November.

By the way, Mr Muckle, have you signed up for it?
Col

ps – it’s only free to the first 80 million (worldwide) apparently – after that it’s £2.99 per month for the service – sounds cosher to me.

pps – anyone interested in a betamax video system 😳

[semacc]

I may be mistaken, but I think they make their money by forwarding to others your surfing patterns. That is all your uploads and downloads are passed through their central server – there fore they have automatic access to all your internet habits. Scary.

John

[coolinshot]

Hi John
I use Spy Sweeper to wipe my pc of all the spyware that lands on my hard drive but it’s pretty impossible to keep out all the invaders.
However, I can’t see how having your surfing habits tracked can affect you in any way other than directing particular advertisements towards you – I think if TV did the same thing, whereby you only see ads for things you are actually interested in it would be an improvement.
But I do see SPAM and POP-UPS as a pain in the **** all the same. I went onto the link ( http://www.freespeed.co.uk ) registered and, apart from my registration confirmation, I haven’t had any problems with it and can’t see any catches at all……..yet.
Col

[Mike Rogers]

It maybe me or the fact it’s 4.00am (sad lad) but I went on site but could not get past it wanting a referral ID

How do you register if you want to

Mike

[Mike Fear]

Something very fishy about this looking at their claims.

They reckon they can get a 2gig connection on a standard phone line with a 56k modem 🙄 even with compression software this isnt going to happen !

Plus, they will pay people £28 for referrals – for a FREE service – even with selling advertising etc… cant see how they expect to make this back.

And, if you sign up now you dont get the service until Oct.

Looks like it may be some marketing thing to get peoples details from them to sell on to market research companies maybe ???

Old saying – if it looks too good to be true, then it probably is !

[John Cornfield]

You get nowt for nowt!

Probably lots of hassle in the long run just shell out the cash on a bonafide ISP.

I use BT via ADSL at work on a 1mb and Blueyonder at home on a 3mb.

Never had a problem with either.

Cheers

John

[coolinshot]

quote Nike Mike:

It maybe me but I went on site but could not get past it wanting a referral ID

How do you register if you want to?

Mike

Hi Mike – I got on ok without it asking for a referral at all – the referral number it shows on my screen in wwh1rpm – try that and see how far you get.

also I think that somewhere it mentions that you need a modem faster than 97kbs – I presume this is a broadband modem.

I still think it’s too good to be true but my curiosity has got the best of me – damn you Mr Muckle
Col