[WEB4LIB] RE: ISP for traveling notebook computers

[Michelle Rempel]

Be sure to check local access with AOL for the places you know you will be 
travelling.  Grande Prairie, where I'm located, is a city of around 40,000 
people in Northern Alberta and there is no local access number for AOL 
here.  The nearest is Edmonton which would make it long distance. The same 
situations may be true for AOL in the US.

Did you try the List? http://thelist.internet.com/

Michelle


At 11:10 AM 4/8/02, you wrote:
>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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