inexpensive dialup

most broadband providers are dirt cheap now

Mine is $30/month, that's the cheapest I found at the time and is 6 times what he was paying for dialup. For people who only do email, I suppose dialup is still fine.

Not where I live.. The cheapest broadband here is about $40 / month.

You might try here to see if they have service in your area. At $3.33 per month if you pay per year, it doesn't get much cheaper. I have never used them so can't vouch for them. I used to have AllVantage but I see they were bought.

WT

The connection is free, but all you get is spam. Anything that is not spam is filtered out. But who cares. After ya get drunk it all looks the same.

Wino

...if you tell idiots to stop sending you 3MB HTML pages. . . The reason I previously posted the link to the Chinese ISP was that, on this newsgroup (with worldwide coverage), the OP didn't bother to state where he is located.

Mentioning Rhode Island would have been apt.

This is where to find a cheap ISP:

Where are you? Most cheap ISPs have limited service areas.

We're located in New Hampshire but I suppose anything that would offer local access numbers would be fine. Lenny

Some years ago I needed a "dirt-cheap" dialup service for occasional testing from an outside network into our network; I used '550access.com' which is a reseller of ISP services, and which used an ISP local to us that normally charged $30.00/mo for the same services. Using the same ISP that we used for other services made for convenience in dealing with network issues, and the service was 'local', not some understaffed, outsourced national outfit. I'm sure that there are many resellers out there, but FWIW, this one worked.

Michael

For that application, they sound ideal. Here's what other users have said:

I have heard good things about