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
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[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]