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internet access while travelling in australia
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! |
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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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How about from a public phone booth, assuming that public phones have modem plugins (not a good aasumption maybe)? Public phone? Pretty much everybody owns a mobile phone; I wasn't aware that public phone booths still exist. Sorry, but your implied smiley is a little bit too invisible for the average foreigner. (OTOH, if you're *not* kidding, then you're rather uninformed about mobile phone coverage or/and public phone ubiquity in Oz (Yes, I know that mobile phone coverage is (probably) no problem for where the *OP* is going, but that's not the/my point. OTTH, he is going on a "roadtrip" from Adelaide to Melbourne and is a week on Mornington, whatever/wherever that may be, so it might still be a problem for him as well.).) The Monington Peninsula is the bit of Melbourne that extends down the east side of the bay. It is basically a string of (mostly) pleasant beach side dormitory suburbs. The Sydney equivalent would be the central coast. |
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