LifeLine Modem Service

Current Status of the Service: The LifeLine Modem Service is a free basic modem service for UCI Faculty, Staff and Students. Anyone with more than modest needs should use a commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP).

NACS has tentative plans to discontinue this service in the 2009/2010 timeframe.

• The use of this service continues to decline. A majority of the UCI community has chosen to use higher performance commercially provided alternatives for connecting to the Internet and to UCI computing resources.

• The UCI modem pool service is unreliable because it is running on old hardware that is no longer supported by the vendor. When the hardware fails we do not plan to replace it. This means that the service could be discontinued at any time.

• NACS encourages you to consider using alternative network connectivity solutions that allow for the use of modern web-based/graphics-intensive applications that are now the norm both on and off campus.

• The cost of commercially provided higher-speed broadband Internet service, such as cable modem or DSL services, has declined and competitive pricing is available from a number of providers. Free and low cost commercially provided dial-up modem Internet access services are available. Information about some alternate services is provided in the links below:

Alternative Internet Services

Cable Modem:

• http://www.cable-modem.net/cable_service/cable_isp.html
• http://www.coxspecials.com/3/?cid=53415&

DSL:

• http://www.dsl.com/
• http://www22.verizon.com/residential/highspeedinternet
• https://www.dslextreme.com/
• http://www.connecttoatt.com/dsl-internet.html?mrc=ps-ctatt-gatt+dsl&s_kwcid=att%20dsl|2056558613

Dial-up:

• http://www.netzero.net/
• http://www.copper.net/
• http://www.dialup4less.com/

Updated: January 09, 2009

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