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My dialup is free. http://www.nocharge.com/ ;)

thankfully services such as NoCharge exist for our lesser bandwidth brothers.

How did anyone expect to make money on providing free internet service with no ads?

I don't know, but these guys seem to have managed to stay afloat for many years doing just that. They do offer tech support and other services for an optional monthly fee, but the base service is totally free and has no ads.

If only, we could have that here. Hold on. I have to pay for internet access. They usually want my name and some other identifying infomation such as address.

Nocharge.com
No pay, no id, no spyware. No sendmail either, but very anonymous!

Personally, I think this is a brilliant way to compete against both "free" (ad-based) ISPs such as Juno and NetZero and also pay-ISPs (AOL, MSN, local providers, etc.), and I hope it becomes the norm (even if such "truly-free" ISPs offer lower-quality service than pay-ISPs [which, btw, NoCharge doesn't AFAIK])

if you have to use a dial-up, use NoCharge. you can register for an account for free, or just login as "guest" with a password of "password".

they have dialups for washington, oregon, new york, and puerto rico, and are planning on nationwide access Real Soon Now(tm). here's the list.

they charge for tech support, which is how they hope to make a profit. dunno how long they'll last, but it's decent while it's around.
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if you have to use a dial-up, use NoCharge. you can register for an account for free, or just login as "guest" with a password of "password".

they have dialups for washington, oregon, new york, and puerto rico, and are planning on nationwide access Real Soon Now(tm). here's the list.

they charge for tech support, which is how they hope to make a profit. dunno how long they'll last, but it's decent while it's around.
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I've been using nocharge.com for my linux box here in seattle and ahve had pretty good luck with them. No cost, no time limits.They dont use anyting proprietary, and there catch is - they charge $10 a call for tech support. but if your smart enought to run linux, you probably wont need tech support.

In Washington and Oregon you can connect free and anonymously thru nocharge.com which is an up and coming free dial up service. No need to use a propriatory dialer so you don't waste time and screen space with ads. They even have linux specific instructions. Now there's a first!

On that note, what are they tracking? The nice feature of nocharge is that there is no account to setup (username: guest, password:password). But do they really intend to make money by selling a list of anonymously hit websites/downloads? I don't think many people are going to be calling the 1-900 number for tech support at $x.x per minute. Doubt it offsets the cost of running modem banks in every major city... But maybe so.

In Washington and Oregon you can connect free and anonymously thru nocharge.com which is an up and coming free dial up service. No need to use a propriatory dialer so you don't waste time and screen space with ads. They even have linux specific instructions. Now there's a first!

On that note, what are they tracking? The nice feature of nocharge is that there is no account to setup (username: guest, password:password). But do they really intend to make money by selling a list of anonymously hit websites/downloads? I don't think many people are going to be calling the 1-900 number for tech support at $x.x per minute. Doubt it offsets the cost of running modem banks in every major city... But maybe so.