freeserve chat

Advantages: Good design and images can be used
Disadvantages: flooding and swearing by people in the site

...Freeserve chat looks good on first appearances it has many and various chat communities so you can speak to people of a similar age or people with the same interests. It even loads quite fast. When you enter the chat site you have a list on the right of users and the chat down the left. You are highlighted in red so you can follow private messages to yourself and find yourself on the list. The private messaging is a good option where a new box opens for you to type in however this sometimes takes a while to go away. There are no sensors in the site so anyone can type anything they like and there is very little booting for bad behaviour. For a chat site no many people actually seem to want to chat. The site cannot be blamed for this but everyone sits around flooding the page with obsenaties and pictures. The pictures are...

Ethak 10.11.2000 · Read review
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Freeserve - An Internet connection made easy.

Advantages: Full range of different packages available
Disadvantages: Can be quite expensive

...When I first bought a computer back in 1996 I signed up with AOL, mainly because I was a complete Internet novice there was an Icon on my desktop. I stuck with AOL for about 6 months before I became aware that there were cheaper ISP?s out there. Following a recommendation from a friend I signed up with Freeserve. Initially opting for their No Ties service since back in those days? unlimited packages were more or less non-existent. When Freeserve launched their Unlimited packages I had no hesitation in joining there Home Ties package where I paid £9.99 a month for unlimited access during off peak hours. This suited me fine since I did not get home from work until after 6PM anyway. This off-peak access enabled me to connect Monday ? Fridays from 6PM ? 8AM the following morning and all day Saturday and Sundays. It was also valid...

micksheff 03.08.2003 · Read review
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Freeserve My Introduction to Chatrooms

Advantages: Make Friends, Easy to Download.
Disadvantages: Addiction and Idiots!

...Freeserve are and have always been my ISP. On the whole Freeserve/Wanadoo is a very informative easy to use server. My Review concentrates on the Chatroom as that is what I have most experience in. I first used the chatroom's in the year 2000. Getting to Freeserve/Wanadoo Chat: When you log onto the Freeserve/Wanadoo home page you are met with a huge quantity of options. First go to the left hand column and select 'chat and forums' then go again to the left hand column and select 'chat'. You are then met with several options on this page. These are to do with what age group or peer group you'd like to converse with. Select say for example '40 somethings'. This takes you directly to the log in page, for the first time ever you'll have to register a nickname and your email address this enables Freeserve/Wanadoo to send you a password...

Multtinems 20.08.2004 (22.12.2004) · Read review
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Freeserve.Anytime

Advantages: It works
Disadvantages: The sign up is complicated

...An update Freeserve have changed their provision of subscription to the anytime or off peak service as well as the pay as you go. I access with ISDN and use the anytime package and have had no problems with the switch over to the new service. £12.99 a month and access is unlimited. The new servers are fast and furious and I have never not been able to connect not in 4 months of use. This is so refreshing in this time of ISPs not keeping up to their promises and I recommend anyone to use them. THe package includes 15MB of free web space and 24 hour support that I have only had to use once and they were friendly and efficient. Previously sign up was a problem when freeserve delegated responsibility to Energis but now they have total control and you can sign up easily through their home page www.freeserve.com look for the anytime...

cabletow 13.08.2000 (11.10.2001) · Read review
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Freeserve - The Good The Bad The Ugly

Advantages: Good Packages & Extras
Disadvantages: Prices

...First off I’d like to ask a question…why are ISP's calling them selves, FREEserve, FREEservers, FREEonline? There not free at all! At the time of writting this originally I was not with Freeserve but I have now come back to Freeserve as they provide one hell of a lot better service! Let us begin! Packages: Freeserve has 3 pay plans that gives you time on the Internet. They are: . Freeserve Anytime. Freeserve Anytime is £13.99 a month. Over the last few months this price has gone up by £1 but this is because they have recently installed more servers.. to cope! For your £13.99 You get unlimited time on the Internet day or night. You get all the usual benefits and you can start using the service as soon as you sign up. You don't have to wait for a day or two to get connected! This is best for people who use...

Roberts 20.04.2001 (21.04.2002) · Read review
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Freeserve plus BT Offpeak Surftime

Advantages: Substantial call savings without changing telcomms supplier
Disadvantages: About to get dearer. Limited to 2 hours at a time, but you can always redial.

...Having been a Freeserve user from fairly early on (an escapee from Compuserve - $9.95US for 5 hours a month??) I have found their service to be as good (or should that be as bad) as any other non-subscription ISP. Many ISP's are able to take advantage of BT Offpeak Surftime, and Freeserve is one of them. In three months of usage, I have used the equivalent of £90 worth of local off-peak call time, all for £18. Freeserve did start off with the good intention of rebating you £3/quarter as well, but this has been disbanded after Jan 2001 - see below for further charges on the way. Signing up was easy - go through to www.bt.com and check to see if your exchange is equipped, (as at Nov 2000 they should all be ready). If it is, order the off-peak facilty on line. Take a note of the order number. Then get back into the Freeserve...

BNibbles 05.11.2000 (15.12.2000) · Read review
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Freeserve: the ISP review

Advantages: Free. Solid.
Disadvantages: Prone to being too busy

...Freeserve was not the first free ISP. Freeserve was the first free ISP to make it big, it opened the flood gates that held the British public back from the Internet and for that we should thank it. Freeserve had two big advantages at the start; 1) The free Freeserve CD being handed out with every computer bought at a wide range of established computer retailers around the country. 2) The support and backing of a big company that eliminated the need for annoying adverts to crowd your screen whenever you logged in. Despite the backing from the parent company, Freeserve operates on a razor edge of a budget. It operates there very well but you can tell when things are starting to get scary. Freeserve was swamped due to its initial success. It simply did not have the capacity to cope with all the users. Quickly enough (But too slow...

Manx 05.09.2000 · Read review
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Hallo AGAIN Freeserve

Advantages: Easy to set up. No paying BT for their share etc.
Disadvantages: Can only be used from one number - must be BT line

...Herein follows a tale of woe, anguish and expense, as William Nibbles, Vacillator Extraordinaire, flip-flops between two 24/7 ISP?s THE STORY SO FAR As a long-term member of Freeserve, I was enjoying really cheap un-metered off-peak access through them, paying only the BT portion of the split charges, i.e. £5/month. A couple of months ago, Freeserve wrote to me informing that their charge was being raised from £4.99/month to £5.99/month and that in future this would include me. Imagine that - including ME, how dare they! This set me thinking about 24/7 access instead, since at £11/month, the merely off-peak option was starting to look expensive. I ignored the rash of TV advertising that Freeserve were launching, extolling the virtues of the re-launched 24/7 service called Anytime. Not wishing to have my Internet charges...

BNibbles 06.02.2002 (20.02.2002) · Read review
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Freeserve chat

Advantages: not many
Disadvantages: As stated in the article

...I have been on numerious chat lines from free serve to Microsoft Messenger Service, so I can compare chat lines to chat lines. Overall I do not rate Freeserve. This is my personnal opinion, as when I am in disscussion over the internet, I like to know what I write, and see the replies as and when they come up on the screen, especially through the wisper boxes / private chat box. But through freeserve, you cannot see what you have written, and due to so many people being online, you dont see the messages comming up on the screen for you to read as you dont have your own private messaging box. The latest chat line that I have tried is through Lineone.net, and this is pritty good, but there are not many members yet, and with Microsoft Messenger (only can get it if you have an Hotmail account, and this comes with added extras) you can...

christopherbrown 26.11.2000 · Read review
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Freeserve ADSL, is it worth it

Advantages: Quick downloads, easy to set up, quick installation
Disadvantages: Expensive, penalties for ending the contract early

...I've had Freeserve ADSL since January 2001, and would thoroughly recommend it if you are considering the ADSL route. Here's my tale... The quest for a "permanently-connected, all-inclusive, makes-the-tea-for-you" ISP began the summer before. My friend had introduced me to 24-7freecall who charged £24.99 for a so-called unlimited connection to the internet, or words to that effect. As I often spent virtually every waking hour uploading some web site or another, surfing or chatting, that was quite a lot of time every week. Unfortunately, they decided to remove my access in November 2000 as they considered I was in breach of their Acceptable Use Policy. I wasn't the only unhappy customer, and was involved in a lengthy exchange with them about the fact I'd had no notice and therefore not meeting their terms of our contract. Anyway, I...

cazm17 17.10.2002 (25.10.2002) · Read review
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