From: Greg Merritt (gmerritt@uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 10:48:52 PDT
At 10:23 AM -0700 6/6/02, Michael O' Hare wrote:
>www.ipass.com
>
>For quite reasonable fees, this system gives you local dial up
>access anywhere in the world, and I mean anywhere. I've used it for
>more than a year and it's cast-iron. You buy it through one of
>several ISPs (I've used Central House) listed at
>http://www.ipass.com/?953e6bcd63a3ddf915d0bff355a22cf3
>
Yes -- ipass is definitely a cool service. However, as Peggy
wrote, there is a different solution, which, in my experience, is
more appropriate for certain users:
At 10:23 AM -0700 6/6/02, Peggy Flens wrote:
...
>We cannot use it in the middle east - - we go with a local ISP
>there.
I worked at an ISP and I ran the scripts that handled the
ipass billing every month. It was funny (all the way to the bank, if
you dig) how one customer would make *thousands* of dollars of calls
every month via ipass from the same location in Taiwan. Oh, how much
they would have saved if they'd only set themselves up with local
access.
So, if you're a heavy dialup user in another (relatively
static) location, it may very well pay to "think locally" when
finding connectivity solutions.
-Greg
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