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Posted By: Bill Carton - the Roadie <wcarton@flash.net> In Response To: Re: I'm going to risk looking like an ignoramus..... (Tracy)
Monday, 5 December 2005, at 6:27 a.m.
> You can get a card for your 'puter thru cellphone companies (ex. Sprint,
> Verizon), sign up for service, and get internet access anywhere a
> cellphone has a signal. It's mostly dial-up speed, but the convenience of
> email from anywhere is worth it!
The Verizon high speed laptop card has two speeds. In most of the country, it's 60-80 kbps, just a little faster than dial-up, but in 170+ metropolitan areas, it runs at 400-700 kbps (bursts to 2M) which really screams. All for $60/mo. This uses a custom data network, not the short-range wireless networks offered by coffeehouses and truckstops and some cities.
But as others have pointed out, this is just for access to the Internet. If all you use is the web for browsing and for access to web-based email, then you really don't need an ISP in the traditional sense, for some extra charge. If you really want to keep using a legacy ISP-based email address, you'll have to pay them their monthly fee.
My recommendation is to have your own domain name, even if you don't intend to put up a web site, because then you're totally portable. You won't be dependent on an ISP to stay in business or to not bundle your email address support in with stuff you might not need, like nationwide dial-up access. If you have your own domain, and host it somewhere cheap, you can have email addresses that will stay permanent as long as you remain the domain owner. At GoDaddy, for instance, $9/year will get you a domain and one email address. $20 a year will get you five addresses. An ISP that charges you $20 a month is not much of a bargain, if all you use them for is email, not access to the Internet.
But if you need cable at home for high-speed access, they may or may not offer access to dial-up numbers if you're travelling. And your built-in wireless laptop adapter might not find free access anywhere, but it might cost $3-10 a day in some airports and hotels. Nice for business travellers whose company would pay the fee, but not for personal use.
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