[Techtalk] dialup while traveling

[Davis, Jennifer]

I know it has been two years since I worked for a PSI subsidiary (through a
subcontractor) so things may have changed.  Though most of the International
ISPs offer similar pricing.  They usually also have introductory pricing
that you could take advantage of.  I'm sure if you signed up for a month, it
would be far less expensive than using your DSL providers roaming tools.  

I remember that the ISPs we supported had access to all North American POPs
and the roaming was included in the cost of the connection.  There was an
800 number that customers could use, but there was an additional charge of
$0.10/min. 

It seemed to be an ok deal, the only problem that clients encountered was
that they had to call back to us to get the names of SMTP servers when they
crossed over into the US and within areas of the US (though we had one
server that was essentially an open relay).  If you have a server on your
DSL connection, you can probably just route through it (I guess that would
mean opening up your server as an open-relay and cloing it when you're
done).

Another option you could use is NetZero, again if that still exists.  I
realise that with linux you can't use their dialup program, but basically
all that that program does is scramble up the data in a regular DUN
connection.  If you look on the net, you can probably find ways to make your
linux machine work by getting a piece of software that unscrambles the code,
although that may violate terms of service.

Have fun on the trip.

Jenn

-----Original Message-----
From: Judith Elaine Bush [mailto:bush at grey-cat.com]
Sent: 2002 Jun 19 6:23 PM
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: [Techtalk] dialup while traveling


We're going on a 10 day trip with our two laptops and would like to be
able to dial-up the net periodically while we're gone. Most of the
places we're staying is with family, and my ideal would be to find a
1800 dial-up pool we can access at some reasonable rate. 

Our current DSL provider also supports roaming dial-up with a handful
of POPs: Roaming Charges: $2.40 per hour/$0.04 cents per
minute. However, we're traveling constantly, so we'd have to create a
configuration almost every night. 

I may just look at billing the long distance and calling our local
dialup, just to stay sane.

However, if anyone has experience with a good nationwide (particularly
in the southeast) service that is reasonable for (very) infrequent
use, I'd love to hear about it.

judith

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