On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:22:34 +1000, "A Mate"
wrote:

|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!
|
|
Hi

The others are all quite correct - I've just spent six weeks wandering
NSW and VIC without a computer. Cafes are relatively cheap, but
libraries are cheaper. They're usually free (only one charged me on this
trip, $3.30 for an hour) but usually only open weekdays 10-4:30. You
will also find that many of the smaller towns have internet access in
the town's tourist advice centre.


Cheers, Alan
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