[CQ-Contest] ISP for travelers

[Rick Tavan]

I use "AT&T Global Network" to access my company through a virtual private network.  In countries that AT&T serves, there are typically dozens or even hundreds of local dial-in numbers; sometimes an 800-equivalent number. There are hundreds of numbers in the US plus an 800 number. My company must pay extra when I use the 800 and equivalent numbers. The dialer includes a self-updating list of numbers for each country and US state; i.e., it is always close to up-to-date. Unfortunatley, the numbers are listed alphabetically by city, so the larger the country or state, the more geography you must know or learn in order to find the best number quickly. Hotel desks are very helpful with this. The service works well, with speeds varying from about 24000 to 54000 in the venues I have tried (mainly
US and Europe). N.B. I use an IBM ThinkPad T20 with a rather good built-in modem.  In some Caribbean islands AT&T is not represented and the best I can do is call Florida. I don't know if this is the same AT&T service that is available to individuals.

73,

/Rick N6XI

Rick Dougherty wrote:

> Hello all...I have asked this before and I want to see if there have been
> some additions and improvements...I travel
> the world rather often and far and wide...I have used Compuserve for the
> past 9 years and until about 3 years ago they had a great presence in the
> world...now they are shrinking in world wide POPs etc and not available in
> a lot of countries I travel to...one member of this list had reccommended
> GRIC as a world provider...I had to purchase GRIC services thru a company
> called VPM and they were horrible...no custome support etc...but GRIC did
> have the most worldwide access points....anybody that travels have any
> other luck with ATT Worldnet or any other ISP...Compuserve since it was
> bought by AOL has begun shrinking its service...I have hung onto Compuserve
> since its great for e-mailing ....but its getting time to change...looking
> for ideas....thanks de Rick nq4i
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Richard M. Tavan
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