On Monday 09 February 2009, Joseph T Apuzzo wrote:
> Here is his question:
>
> "Joe, I need to access an email account after I hand in my Laptop
> so that I can apply to Jobs. I can't afford the DSL or Cable Modem
> bill since I will be on a fixed income ( being well within
> retirement age ). Is there a free or nearly free way to just access
> email at home? I can access the internet from the Library as
> needed, but you always need access to your email"
>
> So what are the options? Internet via Cellphone and give up
> land-line? Ultra-cheap dial-up (does it exist) ?
> He will have a Laptop so yes some of the time he can get WiFi when
> he is at the Library or Mc Donald's.
> But does anyone have a clever way to access just email at home for
> someone on a fixed income?

The only super-cheap way I can think of is to borrow someone else's 
open wireless, but doing this as a day-to-day solution has several 
issues with it.  For one... would you want to do your banking using 
open wireless?

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
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