Regarding xstream service - they may enjoy a product - but the service has got to get better broadband width and soon - servers cannot handle the capacity it presently enjoys on a slow day, forget regular hours or busy periods. Downloading is impossible, what takes 10 minutes to download a file on other servers takes 4 HOURS on xstream. go to www.deja.com; key in xstream and read about ALL ISPs - write to the posters and ask their opinions if you are interested in finding out what the users think about any of the free ISPs. All of them are experiencing problems; freeserve the very fewest and less severe of them all, it is the most user friendly, updated regularly, quick and readily available
freeserve is about the ONLY one worthy of someone's time and efforts; all the others are pitiful at best, unreliable. This is just my opinion and it is based on what I have been receiving from users of ALL free ISPs in the UK. Signing up customers and keeping customers are two different matters. Lucent hardware should remedy XSNI's problems, if and when it gets placed.
It also looks like AOL offering free service in the UK and Europe is a given and Freeserve IPO news is perfect timing for freeserve. could also indicate a sympathy ride for xsni if manning et al doesn't get some news into the real papers (not in-house productions) to get a stock of xstream moving on its own.
Subject:
Re: xstream
Date:
Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:01:00 +0100
From:
Simon JD
To:
Michael & Jacalyn Deaner
1
Hi Jakie,
I think you misunderstood my posting to the newsgroup when you sent the
question about xstream to me. I replied to the thread because someone
said that Freeserve was no good to which I replied that I used Freeserve
and they provided a perfectly good service.
I can't tell you very much about xstream other than that my friend has
tried them and found it to be quite slow at the best of times. They
offered 0800 access several months ago but the lines were jammed solid
for most of the period.
I still think that for overall good service then you might like to try
Freeserve. They are seldom engaged and the download speeds are very fast
even at peak times.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
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