Julian Thomas (jt@withheld_on-request) Wed, 04 May 2005 09:46:38 -0400

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[Pat, as usual, please obscure my email address] In <20050504004837.8187A14EE3@massis.lcs.mit.edu>, on 05/03/05 at 08:48 PM, jhaynes@alumni.uark.edu typed: > When I travel I take along a laptop to keep up with the email. My > ISP has local access numbers in lots of places, so most of the time > I can connect with a local call. Not so around Chicago, where it > seems that to call from one suburb to another, or maybe from one > prefix to another, you get dinged for a small fixed charge. A motel > that gives free local calls can't cope with the fixed charge, so I > have to use the ISPs 800 number, for which there is a substantial > per-minute charge. Check out bamnet.net -- my ISP [small regional] doesn't have local numbers anywhere and their charge for a direct dialup internet connection is less than almost any ISP 800# charge. Or -- stay at a Hampton Inn or other place with free high speed internet connection ... Julian Thomas: jt at jt-mj period net http://jt-mj.net In the beautiful Finger Lakes Wine Country of New York State! -- -- Hex dump: Where witches put used curses... [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Better quality motels are all getting into high speed internet connections for their guests, anyway. Here in Independence, the Microtel Inn and the Super 8 both support broadband internet. PAT]

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