ISP Review of PeoplePC

ISP review of PeoplePC

A few years ago when I first started using the internet I home phone and cable service. I didn't really have the money to get broadband internet access at the time, so I started checking out different options. PeoplePC was highly advertised around this time.

One day while checking the mail I received a CD for PeoplePC and started reading what they offered. At the time PeoplePC had a monthly fee of $9.95 and claimed to be better then other dial up services. AOL was around $24.95 at this time and there were a few others that were more expensive. Cable broadband was starting at $39.29 from my cable provider - which I knew would likely go up pretty fast like my cable bill seemed to be doing without much difference in my service. Based on cost PeoplePC seemed to be the best way to go.

One of the first things PeoplePC said to do on that CD I received was to check to see if there was a service number for my area. I entered my phone number and received a number of local area code service numbers for PeoplePC - five total just within my local calling area (without long distance charges). For the heck of it I checked out a few of the other dial up providers and found they had even less (AOL had five in my area but three of them were long distance to use; Netscape had only two in my area). PeoplePC was looking better at this time for both cost and area code service numbers.

I still wanted more information so I checked out the CD content without downloading anything. It seemed safe enough (I'm picky about what I download onto my computer LOL). So I downloaded the CD and signed up with PeoplePC. Even then I wasn't 100% sure I was making the right choice. After downloading the CD contents and completing the signup information I was ready to start Surfing.

I've had a number of friends that had used dial-up service over the years and they all told me to be prepared to be disconnected from time to time. They also told me that dial up speed was slow so don't try to rush.