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Neva Smith (njsmith@bga.com) wrote:

: When spending an extedned period of time away from homebase, I'd like to 
: use a gateway local to that city/town to avoid long distance phone charges.

: In general, though, I would like to know how to go about locating local 
: gateways. Is there an online directory of gateway providers? 

I've got the same problem.  It seems that it might be possible for several 
access providers to get together to provide a place in other cities so 
that we could log on and telnet to home.  I know that this would involve 
some work, but perhaps a monthly fee could be charged that would be 
shared by all of the providers.  Usage fees would probably not be worth 
the hassle, but something should be able to be worked out.

--
Bob Leonard, Jr.
bleonard@bga.com
The opinions expressed here are not neccessarily my own.

In article <2s0rn2$go3@giga.bga.com>, Bob Leonard wrote:
> Neva Smith (njsmith@bga.com) wrote:
> 
> : When spending an extedned period of time away from homebase, I'd like to 
> : use a gateway local to that city/town to avoid long distance phone charges.
> 
> : In general, though, I would like to know how to go about locating local 
> : gateways. Is there an online directory of gateway providers? 
> 
> I've got the same problem.  It seems that it might be possible for several 
> access providers to get together to provide a place in other cities so 
> that we could log on and telnet to home.  I know that this would involve 
> some work, but perhaps a monthly fee could be charged that would be 
> shared by all of the providers.  Usage fees would probably not be worth 
> the hassle, but something should be able to be worked out.
> 

Why not just have a 1-800 dialup number?
--
ren@bga.com

Josh Hildebrand <ren@bga.com> wrote:
>> Neva Smith (njsmith@bga.com) wrote:
>> 
>> : When spending an extedned period of time away from homebase, I'd like to 
>> : use a gateway local to that city/town to avoid long distance phone charges.
>Why not just have a 1-800 dialup number?

There are providers who offer 1-800 access.  They tend to be fairly
expensive w.r.t. hourly charges (not surprisingly).  (Provider lists
and ads are often posted on alt.internet.services.)  It's been awhile
since I was on the receiving end of a 1-800 line, but the costs are
usually fairly high.  It would probably be cheaper to pay the
long-distance rates to access a remote modem bank.

One option is to join one of the national online systems that provide
telnet access.  The advantage there is that they are usually accessible
via one of the X.25 networks like SprintNet that have dialups in most
cities.

I have a Delphi account that I use 1) when travelling, or 2) when I
want to use the eAAsy Sabre reservation system.  It costs $13/month to
keep the account.  I never use enough time that I have to pay extra.
The downsides are that you pay extra to use the dialups during
"business hours" and that their Internet services are pretty bad.  I
can usually tolerate the slow VMS machine well enough to run telnet
back to my home system though.

I recently saw an ad for a "more traditional" UNIX-based Internet
provider that had a connection to Sprint's X.25 dialup network.  I
don't remember what their rates were though.  The X.25 networks are
historically fairly "painful" to use in terms of latency, but it might
be an option for frequent travellers.

-dpm

-- 
 David P. Maynard, Carnegie Mellon University & Dependable Solutions
 USMail: 14312 Richard Walker Blvd, Austin, TX 78728-6862
 EMail: dpm@depend.com,  Tel: +1 512 251 8122,  Fax: +1 512 251 8308
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In article <2s24qd$eg4@edwin.bga.com> dpm@bga.com (David P. Maynard) writes:

>Josh Hildebrand <ren@bga.com> wrote:
>>> Neva Smith (njsmith@bga.com) wrote:
>>> 
>>> : When spending an extedned period of time away from homebase, I'd like to 
>>> : use a gateway local to that city/town to avoid long distance phone charges.
>>Why not just have a 1-800 dialup number?

David P. Maynard (dpm@bga.com) wrote:

>There are providers who offer 1-800 access.  They tend to be fairly
>expensive w.r.t. hourly charges (not surprisingly).  (Provider lists
>and ads are often posted on alt.internet.services.)  It's been awhile
>since I was on the receiving end of a 1-800 line, but the costs are
>usually fairly high.  It would probably be cheaper to pay the
>long-distance rates to access a remote modem bank.

>One option is to join one of the national online systems that provide
>telnet access.  The advantage there is that they are usually accessible
>via one of the X.25 networks like SprintNet that have dialups in most
>cities.

>I have a Delphi account that I use 1) when travelling, or 2) when I
>want to use the eAAsy Sabre reservation system.  It costs $13/month to
>keep the account.  I never use enough time that I have to pay extra.
>The downsides are that you pay extra to use the dialups during
>"business hours" and that their Internet services are pretty bad.  I
>can usually tolerate the slow VMS machine well enough to run telnet
>back to my home system though.

>I recently saw an ad for a "more traditional" UNIX-based Internet
>provider that had a connection to Sprint's X.25 dialup network.  I
>don't remember what their rates were though.  The X.25 networks are
>historically fairly "painful" to use in terms of latency, but it might
>be an option for frequent travellers.

Do you forward your e-mail to the Delphi account when you're travelling ?
If so, how do you achieve this (either from a regular logon to Real/Time or 
from PC-Eudora with dynamic SLIP access) ?

 Trevor Richards                
 Trinary Systems                 
 Austin, TX

 phone       : 512 345 3981
 fax         : 512 345 8705
 e-mail      : trevr@bga.com                

Trevor Richards <trevr@bga.com> wrote:
>dpm@bga.com (David P. Maynard) writes:
>>I have a Delphi account that I use 1) when travelling, or 2) when I
>>want to use the eAAsy Sabre reservation system.  It costs $13/month to
>>keep the account.  I never use enough time that I have to pay extra.
>>The downsides are that you pay extra to use the dialups during
>>"business hours" and that their Internet services are pretty bad.  I
>>can usually tolerate the slow VMS machine well enough to run telnet
>>back to my home system though.
>
>Do you forward your e-mail to the Delphi account when you're travelling ?
>If so, how do you achieve this (either from a regular logon to Real/Time or 
>from PC-Eudora with dynamic SLIP access) ?

Eeek no.  (The Delphi mail/menu system is really slow & clunky.)  I
only use Delphi to telnet back to Real/Time or home.  I guess if you
want SLIP access for your laptop that doesn't work as well.  (My
laptop is a '86-vintage Z181 that weighs about 12 lbs and doesn't even
have a hard drive.  I'll probably replace it when I'm convinced that
PCMCIA has stabilized.)

Don't I remember something about there being versions of Eudora that
would work without SLIP?  It should be possible to rig up something,
but the Eudora client would have to provide some level of support.

-dpm

-- 
 David P. Maynard, Carnegie Mellon University & Dependable Solutions
 USMail: 14312 Richard Walker Blvd, Austin, TX 78728-6862
 EMail: dpm@depend.com,  Tel: +1 512 251 8122,  Fax: +1 512 251 8308
--

In article(David P. Maynard) says:

>Don't I remember something about there being versions of Eudora that
>would work without SLIP?  
>-- 
> David P. Maynard, Carnegie Mellon University & Dependable Solutions


Yes, David. You I myself saw the same thing in a Qualcomm ad. I'd like
to know how that works.