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Short-term Michigan dailup

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ottothecow

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I am going on vacation in a little over a week and will be gone for 2 weeks or so. Usually I like to leave the tech behind but I will have a need for access to internet (primarily email) since I will not have a lot of time home before I return to school. The area I am in is heavily wooded and by the lake so I barely get a cell phone signal and data is impossible.

What I need is a dialup ISP I can use for a short while for the cheapest possible amount. What it has to have is:
A local dialup number (I will be between St. Joseph and South Haven with an area code of 269 IIRC)
Linux compatability (my laptop runs (k)Ubuntu and has a built in modem. it needs to work with this which rules out something like an AOL free trial)

Thanks for the help,
Otto
 
If you have broadband, my dsl company provides me with free dial up that is available from most anywhere, mabye your provider offers he same?
 
all2easy.net is $5/mo. (I don't know if they have a minimum)

Good luck getting a modem to work with Kubuntu. Most modems are winmodems and they're very Linux unfriendly. Your best bet is an old fashioned external H/W modem like a USR 5686E.
 
I have never used it but my modem is supposed to be supported by ltmodem

ltmodem itself is no longer developed but somebody has made 2.6 packages of it and I even found ubuntu packages already made so I think I might sign up with all2easy and try it.

only problem is that all2easy's signup site isnt working well (says it is too busy) and that is kind of a bad sign in an ISP
 
NetZero offers a Lindows version of their dialup software; 10 hours per month at no cost.
Don't know whether it could be made to work with Ubuntu.
 
As was said, many ISP's offer expanded dialup links. I have use iPass for over 5 years now - good anywhere in the world!

In most cases today, public Internet access and webmail can also be used. Internet Cafes, public libraries, etc., can keep one in contact.

But, I keep good old reliable iPass on my laptop's tool bar. It is global.

iPass
 
You mention 'before I go back to school'; if you're a student at a public university anywhere in the US there's a good possibility you can get a guest account with MichNet. If you can't get a guest account with them, most unis have dial up access numbers, including 800 numbers for non-local access. Then there's always phone cards for non local calls that can be had pretty cheap.
 
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