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Grant wrote: |
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>>>Hello! I am travelling and am currently on the Greek island of Corfu. |
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>>> It is great! I have my laptop but I'm finding it totally impossible |
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>>>to find a place that will let me plug into their network for Internet |
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>>>access. I can't use public systems because of keyboard loggers and |
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>>>bank passwords etc. My business is seriously dying at this point and |
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>>>after a lot of thinking, I think my best option is to get my modem |
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>>>working and hire one of the global dial-up providers. I should be |
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>>>able to find a phone line wherever I am. Does anyone have a better |
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>>>idea? If not, does anyone recommend a particular one of these |
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>>>companies? |
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>>Go wifi, try this for a list of hotspots worldwide: |
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>>http://intel.jiwire.com/ |
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>>hth, |
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>>cooper. |
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> I had planned on finding wireless connections and then ethernet |
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> networks as a backup. Either one has proven to be totally impossible. |
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> I need something I can rely on and since using public computers is |
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> too dangerous it sounds like I need to dial up. I could just make |
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> sure that there is an available phone line where I plan to go and that |
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> my dial-up provider has a local number there. |
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> Can anyone recommend a particular global dial-up company? |
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> - Grant |
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It's been a while since I've had to shop around for dialup service for |
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any of my users. However, if my memory serves me correctly I think AT&T |
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has global dial-up capabilities. It's probably at a premium, but |
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available none the less. |
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byron |
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