Duo/2400 List wrote...
>Subject: [Duo2400] Re: Best ISP for international travel??
>
>--- Brian Monroney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I travel extensively for my job, and up to now I
>> have used earthlink and
>> had pretty reliable connections in the US and
>> Canada. In the last year I
>> have doing much more European and other
>> international travel, and I am
>> fed up with earthlink's overseas dialup access.
>> Because I have earthlink
>> DSL at home, I am now limited to only 20 hours/month
>> of free dialup (per
>> minute charge after that), and on top of that,
>> earthlink adds a surcharge
>> of $9.00/hour for international dialup!! I used
>> internet cafes quite a
>> bit the last time I was in Europe, but I would
>> prefer to get a secondary
>> ISP with better rates and better overseas coverage.
>> Anyone have a
>> suggestion? How about compuserve? they seem to have
>> more reasonable
>> surcharges and far more dialup numbers globablly
>> than earthlink has.
>>
>> I would appreciate any thoughts from seasoned
>> powerbook-toting overseas
>> travellers...
>>
>> Brian
>
>------------------
>
>Brian,
>
>Iíve had good luck with CompuServe in the UK and
>Central Europe...lots of access numbers, etc. I use
>it for eMail only, however, and have the older
>so-called ìClassicî version 2.4.2 installed in my Duo
>280. Its my understanding that the newer version
>(which CompuServe pushes heavily) uses different
>access numbers for the same geography and may be more
>expensive. The Classic version costs nothing extra
>over the U.S. subscription of about $10.00/month for
>up to five hours online time (except for the phone
>costs to get to the nearest access city)
>
>Good luck
>
>Jack C
>>
>>
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The final Classic version is v2.4.4 (named MacCIM) and still available. I
also use it only for certain email but when earthlink is totally jammed,
I can always get through using any (preferably local) CSV number as an
ISP. You can do that using FreePPP 2.6.2 and a Connect Dialog. They won't
forward email (I use Claris Emailer 2.0v3) for/through other ISP's but
you can get online just fine.
RF
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