Also, do bear in mind that the objective is not to avoid aol <at all cost>,
the objective for me at least is to travel while working - or vice versa -
with the least hassle.
If I asked my friends in Spain (in Germany I have my own place) or
elsewhere if I can possibly load 300mb of apps and 100mb of data on there
computer so I can respond to e-mail- and -fax inquiries from clients I may be
stretching the bounderies of hospitality a bit. Those with an US-based aol
account though be aware that aol charges $6/h international access abroad
additionally. That is of course unless you go and sign up for a local aol
promo with about one kazillion free hours while being there and instruct your
e-mail forwarding service such as email.com, gmx.com or whatever accordingly.
Btw, there was a very interesting site, listing truly international ISPs. I
believe it was either <cnet.com/Content/Reports/Special/ISP/index.html>,
<ispfinder.com> or <ispcheck.com>. Haven't visited them in quite a while, but
come to think of it, I should.
Cheers,
Tobias
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In a message dated 06.03.00 3:10:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>From: Dan Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: International dialup - was AOL
>And, if the account you get has shell access, you can tenet in from
>anyone's machine and check your mail using pine.
>
>>I've found a way around having to use something like AOL for travelling.
>>The name of the service is iPASS and it's a network of smaller ISPs which
>>let each other use their access numbers - they have them for most countries
>>in the world, even ones which AOL doesn't have... I use Lanminds (basedin
>>Berkeley) as my roaming account although right now my dial-up is through a
>>free ISP because I'm living in the UK for my degree course...
>>
>>Later.
>>Dan.
>>>The one major advantage (the only one that comes to my mind) of aol:
>>>commuting between Florida and Germany and regularly travelling to Spain, I
>>>have <local> aol access nodes everywhere. I've cussed aol so often and do
it
>>>on a nearly daily basis, but the money it saves me by providing local
access
>>>whereever I go is for the time being worth the crappy service and often
pokey
>>>connections. - Tobias.
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