Those of more technical bent would be able to answer your specific
questions, but IIRC, phone jacks are different in Aus so that might be a
factor (corrections welcome....)
More generally, however, internet cafes *are* ubiquitous in towns of any
decent size, and certainly in the places you mention. In SA (at last check,
in my case 2002), they were free in libraries, and quite affordable
elsewhere. About the only places where they run into significant coin are
the standalone kiosks (such as at backpackers) or in the bush where
radiophone is sometimes required for a connection.
in article LpiHd.21627$K03.592723@news20.bellglobal.com, Robm at
robm@rkmengineering.com wrote on 1/18/05 9:08 PM:
> 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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