Lycos.com (by 1stUp)

Pros: none
Cons: "EASY" 7 hour setup! Slow access, AOL-like busy signals

I was looking the other day around the web for free internet service providers. I was getting pretty fed up with paying $20 a month, especially because I don't make much at where I work, and because I have never really experimented with any of these...

Pros: free
Cons: quirky

Lycos has one of the most quirky ad bars you have ever seen. It will go from being about an inch wide and taking over the entire top of your screen to shrinking by half of that and hovering over and covering all the tools you need to use on your browser...

Pros: Free, fast , and fun
Cons: ad bar ( a small price to pay)

Lycos Free Internet Access is comparable to many "paid" ISPs. As a matter of fact , in my case , Lycos is FASTER than Prodigy on dial-up , and surfing . ( The pages seem to load faster .) And although I don't like the ad bar - I can...

Pros: Great connection; vast local # network
Cons: huge banner ad; painful setup

Lycos! That lovable pooch that will fetch you anything and everything under the sun. Well, guess what, he now wants to fetch you a fully functional *Free* internet dial-up service.

This baby may be free but it's a royal pain if you don't...

Pros: fast, easy, free
Cons: you have to click the bar, the bar sometimes gets in the way

Pros: FREE, it stays connected, links to Lycos network
Cons: None

Personally, I think the whole idea of getting online for FREE FREE FREE is great! I did do the AOL thing when I first got online, then installed my first freebie (Netzero) and lowered my monthly AOL bill to only $9.95 (AOL's "Bring Your Own...

Pros: fast, easy to log on, no busy signals, lots of phone numbers
Cons: rather large, annoying banner ads

Well, my hubby is getting quite perturbed because at this moment, I have about five free ISP's on the hard drive! Why do I need so many, you ask? Well, I don't, but I really kind of like to try them all out and see which are the best. They each seem to...

Pros: many extras, email, kids sites
Cons: inconsistent, pushy with ads and sites, disruptive

Unpredictable and temperamental. LOL Anyhow it just took me 20 minutes just to log on. Today is not a good day for Lycos. First it wouldn't initialize, then it was a dial-up error, then it wouldn't even go past the "verifying name and...

Pros: It's free and has some pretty cool options for setup
Cons: couldn't get on half the time and couldn't get the ad bar to go away even after we signed off

We have been looking for a free ISP for a while now and ran across Lycos. It was a very quick download and fairly easy set up but it was all down hill from there.

I know that with a free service, you have to be ready to put up with some...

Pros: Local Access Numbers, Changeable Start Page
Cons: E-mail System

In the world of free Internet, there will always be someone new on the block trying to show off what his/her new free service will do. Lycos, while being known as a rather powerful search engine, is now the latest in the growing trend of free ISPs.
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Pros: FREE, FREE, FREE, not as annoying as others
Cons: Ad banner

Free Lycos.com ISP
In a previous opinion I wrote about how to find a free ISP. Since that time I have tried FreeLane by Excite, Worldspy (which is now owned by Juno) and Lycos.com. I have found some nice advantages to the Lycos.com ISP service....

Pros: Free ISP
Cons: Big banner often becomes annoying

I downloaded Lyco's free internet access recently in hopes that it could be the missing link of all my free internet needs. Unfortunately, after a careful skeptical view of the entire program from top to bottom, I would have to say that Lycos tried very...

Pros: Gives local weather, Customizable, Search engine right there for you.
Cons: Too much info in one spot! Search results often require you to join to see

We just purchased a new computer, and it came set up with Lycos.com as the home page. Since I haven't had the chance to change that yet, I've seen plenty of this particular page lately. :) While the design is slick and snappy, I'm not sure if the...

Pros: good speed, smallish banner, ease of use
Cons: forced interactions with banner, connection speeds can be slow

Lycos is one of many companies that use the 1stup engine to offer free Internet access to people, like myself, that don't want to fork over $20/month for basically nothing -- it's like paying to park at a mall, you don't get anything for that specific...

Pros: About the fasted FREE ISP out there.
Cons: Needs to add web accounts.

I'm a techie and have over a period of time collected several FREE ISP's. I particularly like the ones that don't have the hovering banners. If you are like me you will love Lycos. The banner stays out of the way much like the banner for AOL. The...