Phone/US/ADSL bundle supplier?

Can anyone recommend a supplier who can do all the following at a reasonable
cost? I'm willing to "mix-and-match" to a degree, but the final cost must
be about the same.

1. Free UK calls (obviously an up-front fee)
2. Cheap (2p/min) calls to the US
3. 512kB/s, unlimited ADSL access
4. A single, reliable, e-mail address with POP3 access

The unlimited ADSL is important since I have a long-term aim of getting
video calling working to my in-laws in the US and that is a little bandwidth
heavy.

Onetel do 3 out of 4 but their e-mail server is a pile of <expletive
deleted> so I'm looking to move.

Cheers,
Paul DS.
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On Tue, 31 May 2005 10:34:51 +0100, "Paul D.Smith"
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>
>Onetel do 3 out of 4 but their e-mail server is a pile of <expletive
>deleted> so I'm looking to move.
>

Why not stick with them but use another ISP for POP3 email.
Claranet will setup a 'never-ending trial' account, and you can use
that to receive POP3 email (you might need to send outgoing mail via
Onetel's SMTP relay, but that shouldn't be a problem).

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On 31 May 2005 10:34, "Paul D.Smith" wrote:

>Onetel do 3 out of 4 but their e-mail server is a pile of <expletive
>deleted> so I'm looking to move.

If you get all but the mail happily, why not get a free Yahoo.co.uk mail
account (250 MB, POP/SMTP allowed, no fee) or use someone like Claranet,
for 9.99/year (<http://www.uk.clara.net/btbroadband/>) as perhaps there
could be some drawback found, with anyone you switch to :-) Peter M.

[ if an ISP blocks port 25 traffic, Clara's server accepts on 2525 too ]


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On Tue, 31 May 2005 11:27:09 +0100, Peter M <us-(E-Mail Removed)>
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>If you get all but the mail happily, why not get a free Yahoo.co.uk mail
>account (250 MB, POP/SMTP allowed, no fee) or use someone like Claranet,
>for 9.99/year (<http://www.uk.clara.net/btbroadband/>) as perhaps there
>could be some drawback found, with anyone you switch to :-) Peter M.
>

The Clara account that I was referring to is free.
I know it works - I use the service.

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"Tony" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 31 May 2005 11:27:09 +0100, Peter M <us-(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
> >
> >If you get all but the mail happily, why not get a free Yahoo.co.uk mail
> >account (250 MB, POP/SMTP allowed, no fee) or use someone like Claranet,
> >for 9.99/year (<http://www.uk.clara.net/btbroadband/>) as perhaps there
> >could be some drawback found, with anyone you switch to :-) Peter M.
> >
>
> The Clara account that I was referring to is free.
> I know it works - I use the service.
>
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> Tony )
>

Tony,

I can't see any free service on the Clara website. Did you sign up sometime
ago when they were putting out lots of "free to get customers" offers?

Paul DS

On 31 May 2005 12:02, Tony <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>>for 9.99/year (<http://www.uk.clara.net/btbroadband/>) ...

>The Clara account that I was referring to is free.
>I know it works - I use the service.

I know it works. I have used both. I would recommend the 9.99/year since
it also offers SMTP facilities, and can be used from ISPs such as Wanadoo,
etc, where port 25 is 'trapped'. Alternatively, I also may have mentioned
Yahoo.co.uk which offers POP/SMTP for free. The free Clara account offers
only POP (and arguably, the benefits of their filtering, as a bonus) which
might be OK, for some purposes, but is a half-way house, compared with the
Yahoo or paid-for Clara accounts, IMHO. Peter M.

On Tue, 31 May 2005 12:33:10 +0100, "Paul D.Smith"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>Tony,
>
>I can't see any free service on the Clara website. Did you sign up sometime
>ago when they were putting out lots of "free to get customers" offers?
>

Go to http://www.uk.clara.net/homeaccess/ and click the Free Trial
link on the left of the screen.

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....where port 25 is 'trapped'.

Sorry to ask a stupid question, but what does this mean? Do you mean that
an ISP may block an attempt for me to try and contact Claranet on port 25?

Paul DS.

Thanks,

Paul DS

On 31 May 2005 14:52, "Paul D.Smith" wrote:

>...where port 25 is 'trapped'.
>
>Sorry to ask a stupid question, but what does this mean? Do you mean that
>an ISP may block an attempt for me to try and contact Claranet on port 25?

Yes, but I believe only Wanadoo (ex-Freeserve) and AOL do so, to attempt to
force all mail out via their own servers. However, as mentioned earlier, a
user of the paid-for Claranet service can send, by using port 2525 instead!

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