ISP.com claims to provide Internet service at half the price of its competitors. Based on the ISPs we've reviewed this is a fairly accurate statement. Some competitors offer start-up prices similar to ISP.com's, but while these prices go up after a period of time, ISP.com's remain the same.

ISP.com provides dial-up service to over 7,000 cities nationwide.

This service provides an email account and virus protection but lacks a firewall, pop-up blocker and webfilter.

ISP.com has achieved above average dial-up speeds with compression and advanced caching of websites but the bottom line is they are still sending information through a 56K line.

If you're more concerned with price than you are with speed, and don't mind not having security features then ISP.com may work for you.