Al,

I have setup an account for my parents with pro-usa.net. It has been working quite well. They seem to provide the same quality/type of service as their previous well known ISP. They provide pop/smtp mail services, and I have been able to hit my pop mail server from their pc. No special software was required, and they are supposed to recieve a survey via email periodically. Haven't seen one yet. Don't know if they provide local access #'s outside the US.
Hope this helps.

Regards,
-Isaac

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>I have a friend who is thinking of switching from a dial-up ISP to cable modem. This would be perfect for her home office, but she still needs occasional dial-up access from another office. This really is very occasional, and will be primarily for checking e-mail on the cable modem ISP's account(s).
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>I was thinking of setting up one of the "free" ISPs (AltaVista, Yahoo! etc.) at the secondary office, and giving it a test. If anyone has had any experience with these ISPs could you please comment:
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>1. Do you need special access software, and does that interfere with any other preconfigured dial-up access with other ISPs?
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>2. Can you access e-mail accounts other than those of the free ISP?
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>3. Realistically, can you get a connection at the local access number(s)?
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>4. Any other limitations/restrictions/gotchas/comments?
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>TIA.