A6 2.7TQ Impressions

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> I was wondering- can't you get free web-based email in Britain?
> If you're email bill is that big, I'd strongly consider moving
> your q-list stuff to something like yahoo mail or hotmail or
> whatever. I guess I'm spoiled by the unlimited bandwidth and
> the luxury of having a 640k connection (soon to be 1.5mb).

All ISPs are available in some 'free' form now - you pay via the phone
calls - a proportion of the charge is siphoned off for the ISP.  There
are now 'all you can eat' deals - a fixed charge for unlimited
connection time, sometimes all day, sometimes off-peak.  These services
have appalling internal bandwidth problems and are next to unusable
from 18:00 (start of cheap rate) until about 23:00.  Anything faster
than a standard 33k modem is hideously expensive, and the cheap rates
to use 33k are dog-slow - slower than my 9600 baud modems used to be.

When I'm mobile, I use a cellphone limited to 9600.  This has size
filters in it so it will only pull down messages smaller than about
4KB.  Anything bigger waits until I get home.

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