Cheddar Village 0845 internet dial-up

0845-RATE INTERNET DIAL-UP

You can support this web site by using a special 0845-rate number any time you need to make a DIAL-UP (not broadband) connection to the internet. This has been arranged through one of the UK's leading - indeed award-winning - ISPs, and is available to anyone who wants to use it.

Before the advent of broadband, dial-up (or Pay As You Go) was how everyone connected to the internet. You get on the internet by dialling up a local rate 0845 number and you only pay for the time you spend connected to this 0845 dialup number.

Although many of us now use broadband for our regular internet access, there are still a few people out of reach of broadband, and some occasional web users for whom dial-up is still a more cost-effective option. The most common use for a dial-up connection, however, is when you are out and about, needing to quickly check something on the net using your PDA, or maybe in a hotel room or on a train, trying to download email using your mobile phone as a modem. Also, if you are having problems with your broadband connection any time, it is also useful to have a back-up dial-up account programmed in to your computer so you can still connect.

How to use this service:

Simply set up a new connection, dialling 0845 123 2097, with user ID cheddar and password village.

There is no sign-up or monthly maintenance fee. You only pay for the cost of the time you are on-line, which from BT landlines varies between 3.95p/minute peak and 1p/minute at weekends. Costs from other phone providers and mobile networks may vary. A very tiny fraction of this amount goes to the webmaster and helps to pay for the web space, domain name registration, and general maintenance and development of this web site.

You might want to adjust the "disconnect on idle" setting for the connection to something like 10 or 20 minutes so that your phone bill is not clocking up if you get unexpectedly called away from the computer without disconnecting. If you set it below 10 minutes, you may suffer the irritation of the connection dropping whilst you are actually reading or working with a web page, and then having to wait to reconnect.

If for any reason you should have any difficulty connecting via this route, please use the contact form to send a message and the problem will be investigated as soon as possible.

Faster dial-up

Optionally, you can also take advantage of the "On-Speed" service, which for a small annual fee, compresses your dial-up data and delivers it to you at 10x faster speed. You can use it on your broadband connection as well. It makes a serious difference to the speed at which email is retrieved and web pages download. Click on the banner for more information and to sign up.