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Date:	Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:41:19 PST7
From:	xowatson@concentric.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Nationwide ISP recommendation

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Anybody have opinions on Earthlink? My cable company (Time
Warner) now partners (unwillingly, I presume) with Earthlink. I don't
like paying Time Warner or any other government enforced
monopoly, so I like the idea of paying Earthlink for Time Warner
broadband service. And Earthlink is nationwide so I presume I can
use it on the road, too. Will that work?

I travel quite a bit and currently use Concentric, which used to be
local (Orange County) ISP Deltanet. Concentric bought them, and
they're nationwide. They have local numbers in most cities I go to.
Reasonably reliable. I also have an AOL account which has
dialups most everywhere. I don't particularly care for their interface,
but my mom does, and we share an account. If you know anybody
with an AOL account, you can generate an extra "screen name" for
your use for no extra cost, you get the local numbers for the city
you're travelling to before you leave, and you can dial in there for
free. Only one connection at a time, though, so if your benefactor is
online (dialup, broadband, whatever) you can't connect. You can
probably set your local account to forward mail to your AOL account
while you're travelling. Actually, you can get a new account for the
free month during your travel and cancel before it's over if you're
willing to put up with the hassle of listening to them whine. Register
again next trip. No cost, just tell them your credit card number. Or
you'r wife's. I don't recommend it, but lots of hackers use that
method to get free time.

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