[WEB4LIB] RE: ISP for traveling notebook computers

[Don Hamilton]

Hi. I also have decided AOL is best in terms of availability 'all over'.
If you can, AOL Canada is better than AOL US in that the cost is the
same (only cdn$$ not US$$ which is a big difference), and the roaming
fee for out of country (at least in North America) is non-existent if
you have a Canadian account.

Do you all share 1 AOL account? And what does AOL do if there are
simultaneous logins? 

don

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Michael Sauers
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 12:14 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: ISP for traveling notebook computers


> I'm working my way through Web sites for various ISPs, but am hoping 
> someone has a successful solution or ideas they'd be willing to share.

Not that I'm advocating AOL as an all-around solution to Net access
but...

We have several trainers here (myself included) that travel over a
twelve-state region and want dial-up access while on the road. We go to
major cities (Salt Lake City) and rural locations (Hays, KS) and find
that AOL has local access in most all of these locations without the
need for an additional charge that 800 access usually involves.

None of us use the AOL features, just connect and minimize, then run
whatever browser/mail we want. It seems to be doing the job for a
reasonable monthly cost.

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