Internet access is available almost everywhere (even at the Shire Library in
Birdsvllle!) at reasonable prices.

I've never seen a public phone booth with a modem plug-in! Perhaps they
exist (I've never actually looked for one either!).

Most motels and other mid-range up accommodation places have modem jacks in
each room.

The best isp's for country-wide connection are Telstra (Bigpond), Optus, and
iprimus. There are dozens of others, some with a presence in just one
geographic area.


"Robm" wrote in message
. ..
Hello,

I will be traveling for about 5 weeks in Australia, one week in Sydney, a
few days in Adelaide, a roadtrip from there to Melborne, a week on
Mornington. I understand that internet cafes tend to be pricey and not
ubiquitous. In addition, I need to be able to VPN into various computer
networks in Canada, something that's usually impossible from an internet
cafe. Is it possible to make a a short term deal with a dial-up isp with a
country wide (or at least SA, NSW and VIC) access number? I was looking at
ii and their iidialup2 lite package. Would that work? They have a nation
wide access number that works for residential customers of Atlantis,
Discovery, Explorer, Freedom and, you guessed it, iidialup2. Are these
providers common? would this work in a hotel? How about from a public
phone booth, assuming that public phones have modem plugins (not a good
aasumption maybe)?

The other thing that comes up a lot on Google is dialer.net
(http://australia.dialer.net/rates.html). Anybody has any experience with
that concept? I can't find anything in Google Groups on that, makes you
think...

Any and all comments appreciated!