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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! |
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"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. Wrong on both counts. 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? Yes, easy. You can buy dial-up internet access time at many places - Dick Smith Electronics (a big electronics chain) springs to mind, but there are many, many other places (see below). You can buy (say) $20 worth of access and you have some months to use it. The actual service would be by one of the big ISPs - bigpond and optus being the two biggest. The real cost is humping a laptop around. 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? Never heard of them. Then again, I'm not inthe market, so this doesn't mean anything. would this work in a hotel? Yes. 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. 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... Doesn't look appropriate to me. You don't need WiFi access in 150 countries; you want internet access in Australia - and it doesn't even say what the coverage is in Australia. When you are sitting in your hotel in the Mornington Peninsula, you want a Mt Martha access point, not a Minsk access point. http://www.bigpond.com/internet-plan...id/default.asp (about the same price as an internet cafe - $1 an hour - but presumably will allow VPN) http://www.optus.com.au/portal/site/...extfmt=default (better deal - about $0.50 per hour. Note the link to retailers who will sell you the access http://www7.optus.com.au/Vign/ViewMg...ew_226,FF.html. If you key in postcode 2000 - which is the central business district of Sydney - there are about a dozen retailers listed). Any and all comments appreciated! I reckon carrying around a lappie is a real pain the arse when you are travelling. Unless you absolutely need VPN, I would simply visit interbet cafes, which are (despite what you have been told) ubiquitous and cheap. Where you are going, there won't be a problem. If you want to bring your own laptop, just buy some prepaid hours from a retail outlet and top up as neccessary. |
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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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"Robm" wrote in message
. .. 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. Incorrect. 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? Yes. Be on the lookout for discounted trial or prepaid packages for the big national ISPs such as Ozemail, Bigpond, Optusnet etc. http://www.bigpond.com/internet-plan...id/default.asp http://homesite.service.ozemail.com....aid/index_html 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? There's one called iiNet that I've heard of, but I've never heard of any of the above. would this work in a hotel? Should do, yes. How about from a public phone booth, assuming that public phones have modem plugins (not a good aasumption maybe)? No plugins in phone booths. Daniel |
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:56:13 +1100, "Daniel Bowen"
wrote: Snip SNip 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? There's one called iiNet that I've heard of, but I've never heard of any of the above. was iinet.net.au, NOW called ii. however web site is:- http://www.iinet.net.au Tony Snip Snip |
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in article , Alan at
wrote on 1/19/05 5:48 AM: 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. | It does exist in Birdsville, but trust me, the price is reasonable only when one considers the tyranny of distance! |I've never seen a public phone booth with a modem plug-in! Perhaps they |exist (I've never actually looked for one either!). I've seen a couple in airports, but that's it. | |Most motels and other mid-range up accommodation places have modem jacks in |each room. I just stayed in one place that had a jack built in to a table lamp! You had to supply your own cord, however. |
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"Alan" wrote in message ... 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 -- The public library in the middle of Sydney (next to the cathedral) does charge for the use of the internet. Not expensive but nevertheless it does cost. Gerrit |
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Peter Webb wrote:
"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. Wrong on both counts. "pricey" is a relative term. If the OP compares internet cafes with dial-up, as it seems he does, then the former *are* pricey (at least when comparing Oz internet cafes with Dutch dial-up services; I have no experience with the reverse). [deleted] 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.).) [deleted] -- Frank "About to go where there, luckily, is no mobile phone coverage!" Slootweg |
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On 20 Jan 2005 17:03:25 GMT, Frank Slootweg
wrote: |Peter Webb wrote: | | "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. | | Wrong on both counts. | | "pricey" is a relative term. If the OP compares internet cafes with |dial-up, as it seems he does, then the former *are* pricey (at least |when comparing Oz internet cafes with Dutch dial-up services; I have no |experience with the reverse). | |[deleted] | | 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.).) | |[deleted] If the mobile phone is GSM, there is coverage in major cities, most moderate sized towns and along some of the major highways, particularly the Hume connecting Melbourne and Sydney. If it is CDMA, coverage in the country improve to include some of the smaller towns. In my recent wanders around NSW and Victoria with GSM, my basic "rule of thumb" was that coverage disappeared as I left the city limits. And there is a lot of space between some of those towns. Incidentally, Mornington is now effectively a major city in it's own right, following the coastal strip of Port Phillip Bay about 80 km south of Melbourne. Coverage between Adelaide and Melbourne is patchy at best, particularly via the GOR. Most public libraries are intended for the use of local ratepayers, who will be given preference if there is a queue. However, I've found that politeness works every time; it also worked in the NYC library:-) Cheers, Alan -- |
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