Xsinet

CathJ

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Hi

Couple of questions about Xsinet, if anyone uses them -

My parents use them, and the service is terrible. Authentication errors abound, and when do you connect it's slow (and frequently it'll just sit and do nothing for, literally, 3 or 4 minutes). So I'm trying to convince them to switch to someone else. They really don't want to have to change email addresses, though - and Xsinet is cheaper than anyone else I've seen.

So: firstly, can you just pay for an email address from Xsinet? I'd check on their website, but it's been down for the past few days, and now that it's up, the only thing you can do is check webmail.

Secondly, does anyone have a better experience with Xsinet? Any advice?

Thirdly, can anyone recommend another cheap (but more stable) dial-up provider? I've tried TelkomInternet, and Storm, and wasn't impressed with either of them.

thanks
 
i used @lantic before i got adsl in Aug 2005. They were the cheapest (i see they still R50pm with no email) and on the telkominternet backbone. Cancelling with them was a bit of a mission, but otherwise i had no problems.

I used XSInet when they had their free internet. It was terrible, but mainly because of the ads they placed on your screen to make it "free".

Tell your parents the quicker they let go of their ISP email the better and get them a gmail or similar account.
 
I would strongly advise that your parants say goodbye to xsinet's email and say hello to an account like Gmail or Yahoo mail or Webmail - whichever, so in the future, when you change ISP's, you don't have to worry about loosing your email address!.
 
LabAnimal said:
I would strongly advise that your parants say goodbye to xsinet's email and say hello to an account like Gmail or Yahoo mail or Webmail - whichever, so in the future, when you change ISP's, you don't have to worry about loosing your email address!.
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I agree with Lab, but he had some tongue problem, he meant to say they should get a GMAIL gmail gmail address :p ;) :D
 
LabAnimal said:
I would strongly advise that your parants say goodbye to xsinet's email and say hello to an account like Gmail or Yahoo mail or Webmail - whichever, so in the future, when you change ISP's, you don't have to worry about loosing your email address!.
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Of course - my plan was to get them off xsinet, but still able to have their xsinet mail redirected to gmail account. New contacts would send to gmail, but they wouldn't lose any mail from people who still have their old address.

Thing is, they'll rather stick with xsinet to avoid the (fairly major, for them) inconvenience of having to change email address, rather than move to someone more stable :-(
 
Hi, I have read in the news that xsinet has been bought over by @lantic, so my suggestion is for them to wait, +/- one month, for all the changes to stabilize and then let them change their xsinet contract to a cheaper @lantic contract. This will mean they can keep their xsinet e-mail adress, but then at a cost of +/- R25.00 per month, according to: http://www.lantic.net/personal_hosting.htm. Then you can either change to a @lantic dailup, at a cost of R50.00 per month, which also use the backbone of SAIX, or you can let them dailup through another ISP.
 
I've been getting loads of emails from xsinet.co.za customers over the last 2 weeks saying they cannot receive emails, obviously there is nothing mybroadband.co.za can do about xsinet.co.za problems, and it doesn't help for me to reply to an xsinet.co.za email address if people are not receiving emails...

If anyone from xsinet.co.za is listening, please sort your email system out.
 
They were taken over by @lantic a couple of years back. Accounts were just transferred across. I still have an old Xsinet account that's with them now.
 
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