Re: Internet services when travelling

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From: Eric Chamberlain (echamber@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 11:28:08 PDT


At 09:12 AM 6/6/2002 -0700, Leigh Haynes wrote:
>I sure wish there were some kind of campus-level
>service that could be used for dial-up when
>travelling for those of us who use DSL or
>cable at home (and don't have dialup service).
>I have to pay Earthlink $20 a month just so
>I have a phone number to dial in to when I
>travel w/ my laptop.

If you have DSL with SBC, you can use their nation wide dial-up numbers
with your DSL username and password. I think they charge $.05/min for out
of home area connections.

Many ISP's will activate you instantly. I have signed up for service
before leaving and cancelled service when I returned and payed the one
month charge.

--
Eric Chamberlain, CISSP
Campus Active Directory Architect
Central Computing Services                      285 Evans Hall
University of California, Berkeley                (510) 642-8426

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