Dial-up Services 56K V.90 Access

Bay Area Internet Solutions offers Basic, Unmetered, and Unlimited, dial-up access services throughout Northern and Southern California. With a no-busy-signal policy and full V.90 support at all point-of-presence locations in the Bay Area, we offer superior dial-up service quality, support, and reliability.

Our support of the V.90 standard provides the fastest connection speeds available. Using a V.90-compatible modem and standard telephone lines, users can attain speeds of up to 53 Kbps¹ using Serial Line IP (SLIP) or Point-to-Point (PPP) protocols.

Locate a local access number using our POP Finder.

The BAIS Difference:

Support
As a BayArea.net customer, you can expect service you can rely on for mission-critical applications and key business operations. In addition, you can expect skilled and knowledgeable technical support. You can count on us to be extremely responsive, courteous, and proactive in providing exceptional service and support.

Performance
At BayArea.net, we understand that the optimal performance of your connection is directly affected by the quality and speed of our network. Instead of utilizing the congested and faulty public peering points, as many providers do, we maintain multiple direct fiber-connected access points to "Tier 1" backbone providers. The quality of our network is a key differentiator between BayArea.net and low-priced, consumer-oriented providers.

Connectivity
Our access solutions provide fast and reliable connectivity to the global Internet network. We maintain rigorously engineered, high-availability Network Access Points (NAPs) throughout northern and southern California.

Bandwidth
Exceptional bandwidth quality has always been a BayArea.net core strength. A key factor that enables us to deliver such outstanding bandwidth is a core strategy of purchasing only "clear-channel" private Internet connectivity. Many of our competitors rely heavily on public network access points and congested public and private peering points.

Exceptional Diversity
In addition to multiple connections to the major Tier 1 Internet backbones like Level 3 and Williams Communications, BayArea.net also maintains fiber connectivity to InterNAP. InterNAP is a leading provider of fast, reliable, and centrally managed Internet connectivity services targeted at businesses seeking to maximize the performance of mission-critical Internet-based applications.

Availability
BayArea.net's access services provide a non-stop Internet access infrastructure utilizing both 480V UPS subsystems and a fully automated failover to diesel generator back-up power.

For your email needs, our dial-up access solutions let you retrieve your email using either POP3 or IMAP protocols. Outlook, Netscape, Eudora and PINE are examples of some of the many existing programs you can use to retrieve and manage email messages using  POP3 and IMAP protocols. For our Unlimited Account users, we also provide SMTP mail services.

A risk-free, 7-day, money-back guarantee lets you trial our dial-up services. If you are not 100 percent satisfied within the first seven days, we fully refund the charges with no fuss or hassle.

A no-busy-signal policy ensures that you receive the highest network availability possible. By continually monitoring our user-to-modem ratio, we ensure that our network capacity meets customer demand. To ensure that we are doing our part to provide the highest level of service quality and availability, we encourage you to contact us if you ever experience a busy signal or interruption in service.

If your needs require email confidentiality among your family members, friends, or business associates, separate email POP3 accounts can be established for a nominal set-up fee of $5.00 with a monthly fee of $2.00 per account.

To establish a BayArea.net dial-up connection, a modem and browser software of your choice must be installed on your computer. To avoid telephone toll charges, please determine which local access number is best for your location.

Supported Dial-up Modem Protocols:
V.90, K56Flex, K56Flex+, V.34, and VFC.

Descriptions of BAIS Dial-up Services:

Basic
Basic  56K V.90 SLIP/PPP Service 

One time set-up fee:  Waived
Monthly charges:  $20.00

Services include:

• Unmetered connect time (see notes below)

• 5 megabytes of email storage space

• Spam and Email Virus protection Powered by Postini

• Access to over 45,000+ newsgroups

• One email account with an address of username@bayarea.net

• A dynamic or static dial-up IP address (static IP on request)

Optional charges:

• $.50 per megabyte over the 5 megabytes of email storage space per month

• $2.00 per month for each additional email POP3 or IMAP account with a $5.00 set-up fee

• $3.00 per month for each additional email account with Spam and Email Virus protection Powered by Postini. $5.00 setup fee

• $30.00 for a custom domain name** such as company.com instead of yourid.bayarea.net for your email and domain name*

*  Initial set-up fee includes up to one (1) domain transfer or registration. Additional domain transfers/registrations will be billed at our current Domain Transfer/Registration fees. 

NOTE:
Although the number of hours are not tracked, Unmetered customers are required to disconnect on a daily basis. Connections that are left running 24 hours a day will be considered Unlimited, not Unmetered.

**NOTE:
As of 4/1/98, the Internic is charging a domain registration fee of $35 per year. All new Internet domain requests are subject to a $70 registration fee for two years, payable to the Internic directly.

Unmetered 56K V.90 Dial-up with Web Hosting

One time set-up fee:  Waived
Monthly charges:  $30.00

Services include:

• Unmetered hours of connect time per month (see notes below)

• 5 megabytes of email storage space

• Spam and Email Virus protection Powered by Postini

• UNIX shell account with complete virtual domain hosting set-up

• Server-side FrontPage support

• Personal Web and anonymous ftp site

• 40 megabytes of disk storage space for your ftp, Web, or shell needs

• Access to over 45,000+ newsgroups

• One email account with an address of username@bayarea.net

• A dynamic or static dial-up IP address (static IP on request)

• Ability to build your own personal World Wide Web pages

• Ability to build your own cgi-bin interface (Perl, PHP, Tcl, and more)

• 200 megabytes of ftp/WWW transfer per day

Optional charges:

• $.50 per megabyte over the 5 megabytes of email storage space per month

• $2.00 per month for each additional email POP3 or IMAP account with a $5.00 set-up fee

• $3.00 per month for each additional email account with Spam and Email Virus protection Powered by Postini. $5.00 setup fee

• $10 for each additional 200 megabytes of data transferred per day*
  (e.g., additional 6000 megabytes per month)

• $30.00 set-up fee for a custom domain name** such as company.com instead of yourid.bayarea.net for your email and domain name.*

• MySQL Web site database support: $15 per month, $30 set-up fee.

*  Initial set-up fee includes one (1) domain transfer or registration. Additional domain transfers/registrations will be billed at our current Domain Transfer/Registration fees.

NOTE:
Although the number of hours are not tracked, Unmetered customers are required to disconnect on a daily basis. Connections that are left running 24 hours a day will be considered Unlimited, not Unmetered.

**NOTE:
As of 4/1/98, the Internic is charging a domain registration fee of $35 per year. All new Internet domain requests are subject to a $70 registration fee for two years payable to the Internic directly.

Unlimited (Dedicated) 56Kbps V.90 PPP Service

One time set-up fee:  Waived
Monthly charges:  $100.00

Services include:

• Unlimited amount of connect time per month

• Dedicated modem and telephone line guarantees no busy signal

• Six static IP addresses

• Internet domain transfer or registration such as company.com

• One email account on our server with 5 megabytes of email storage space

• Spam and Email Virus protection Powered by Postini

• SMTP email forwarding available

• NNTP access to over 33,000+ newsgroups

Optional charges:

• $.50 per megabyte over the 5 megabytes of email storage space per month

• $2.00 per month for each additional email POP3 or IMAP account with a $5.00 set-up fee

• $3.00 per month for each additional email account with Spam and Email Virus protection Powered by Postini. $5.00 setup fee

• Additional domain transfers/registrations

Note 1:  

Modems can receive data at speeds of up to 56Kbps. However, due to FCC (Federal Communications Commission) rulings on maximum permissible transmit levels during download transmissions, download speeds of 53Kbps are the maximum. Upload speeds are limited to 31.5Kbps. Actual data speeds received will vary depending on line conditions.

The following table summarizes the various Bayarea.net dial-up accounts and their related options:

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