Brit needs USA dial-up for a month

Can anyone help?

[peewhy]

I'm going to Reno, Nevada for a month's holiday and taking my laptop to access emails.

Can anyone suggest a temporary low-cost dial-up number?

[bmcgee]

Get an AOL CD. AOL inundates our postal mail with those CDs you can probably get one sent to you via the web.

They offer about 45 days of unlimited (or some amount that you couldn't use if you stayed up 24/7) usage. You have to sign up and give a credit card, but you can cancel before the end of your "trial" and they won't charge your card when the time comes.

They'll surely have numbers local to Reno.

[peewhy]

Thanks, my credit card is UK. I have to give a US address. They won't play!

[moltar]

You can pick up the cd in any computer store in Canada. Most free computer magazines carry them as well as free insert.

I see a lot of ads for NetZero in Canada. They offer unlimited access for under $10. Never used them myself though.

[bhartzer]

Do you know where you're staying? Most hotels and motels now in the USA (and in Reno) provide internet access right in the hotel room and they often provide it free as an incentive to stay at their hotel.

A lot of areas also provide free wireless hotspot service, you might check to see if you can get access to a wireless hotspot.

[mack]

You might want to look into a "pay as you go" internet service provider.

Mack.

[peewhy]

Thanks for the tips.

I was hoping someone might know of a dial-up service. No bells and whistles, no disk, just a number to access my emails.

I'm happy to pay a flat fee for access.

[peewhy]

Any suggestions?

[bill]

Look for a local ISP in your country that supports roaming. I keep one Japanese dial-up ISP that I use for backup. That ISP has global roaming tie-ups with ISPs all over the world, so wherever I go there is a local number I can dial into.

This is similar to the AOL idea. I'm sure you have a local AOL you could join and then use for dial-up just about anywhere. You don't have to join AOL in the US to get dial-up there...as far as I know.

[peewhy]

I've got AOL here but whereas they used to be 10 cents per minute anywhere in the world, they now charge £2.50 per hour minumum. Ouch!

I use an ISP here that provides a free dial-up number at local rate, but not out of the UK. I would have thought a US company might do the same.

No sofware, no support just a dial-up.

[bill]

You need to do a little bit more research of your local ISPs then.

[quiet_man]

For the Vegas conference my hotel had details for the Microsoft dial-up product, which I registered for using my Irish credit card. All I had to do was add their number to my PC connections. It was only dial-up, but enough to check email and update files. At the time they were offering a free three-month trial, so it would have cost me nothing (had I remembered to cancel before I left; having forgotten, it was a pig to get in touch from Europe to cancel. But that's a different story). If they don't still have the introductory free trial, I think it was something like USD18 a month, plus local call fees.

[peewhy]

It's not a local ISP I want. It's one in the USA.

The post was to reach out to anyone in the USA that knows of a Dial-up service that I can use for a month.

[peewhy]

Quiet-Man many thanks, I'll look into that one. It sounds like a solution.