Re: Getting online away from Home.

[Rob Phillips]

Can I make a suggestion thatb our Gurus give a talk on getting on 
line from internet cafes etc. It is not vas easy as it sounds :-(


I travel a lot, and I use AT&T global (http://www.attbusiness.net/) 
to connect my 17" PB to the net.


AT&T global gives me local numbers in countries all over the world, 
and special numbers for regional areas. Unlike AT&T global many ISPs 
use a thing called iPASS to connect you to other ISPs around the 
world, but you pay a premium for the overseas connection.  Also, you 
need to run the iPASS software to make a connection.  This works fine 
for PCs, but they ported this to the mac using Applescript.  Back in 
2002, using the OS9 version, this took several minutes to connect 
you, and often the ISP timed out first...


I never use internet cafe's, because I want to use Eudora on my own 
machine.  Once I connect through ATT global, I can easily use Eudora 
for receiving mail, because it is still pointing to my normal email 
server.  The problem is with sending mail.  Because of spam issues, 
most SMTP servers do not allow mail to be sent when it did not 
originate on the home network, where the SMTP server lives.


Previously, I had to have a Eudora setup for each of my ISP 
environments, which specified the ISP's own SMTP server.  This was a 
pain, and when I got to conferences with airport access (like I did 
last week), then I couldn't send any email.


However, because OSX has unix under the hood, I was able last week to 
set up my own machine to act as an SMTP server, by following the 
instructions at:

http://www.reitter-it-media.de/software/osxpostfix.html

You only have to change two files, but BE CAREFUL if you don't know 
anything about unix.


Hope this helps,
Rob

PS A common misconception is that people need a different email 
address to travel overseas.  This is not true. You *do* need a local 
ISP connection, but once you're on the net, you can access your 
normal email account.

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Re: Getting online away from Home.

[Paul Kitchener]

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>but some written instructions would be better for us 
>Eastern Staters.

Not sure if this is what you mean but I created instructions for an
Internet Cafe to give to it's laptop users and I still have it.
If it doesn't give you everything you need, it should shine a little
light for the MS-centric staff at your chosen cafe.

Note: it is for Ethernet, not Wireless.

http://members.westnet.com.au/logrythm/NetworkConnectionsMac.pdf 

(1.9 MB, it has colour images)

Good Luck
Paul

Re: Getting online away from Home.

[Peter Sealy]

On 11/04/2005, at 12:52 PM, Malcolm J McCallum wrote:

Can I make a suggestion thatb our Gurus give a talk on getting on line 
from internet cafes etc. It is not vas easy as it sounds :-(


Second that, but some written instructions would be better for us 
Eastern Staters.



Cheers everyone, Hurry up and retire I can*** Highly recommend 
it  :-)


Agreed, but the big problem with being retired is you never get a day 
off.



Malcolm McCallum


Cheers


.

Peter Sealy
Thurgoona AUSTRALIA

Re: Getting online away from Home.

[Onno Benschop]

Shay Telfer wrote:

Can I make a suggestion thatb our Gurus give a talk on getting on 
line from internet cafes etc. It is not vas easy as it sounds :-(



Last time I did it we took our own 2m satellite dish with us :)


As for configuration, IIRC, all you needed to do is turn your laptop on 
and sit-down, the rest was automatic :-)


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Re: Getting online away from Home.

[Shay Telfer]

Can I make a suggestion thatb our Gurus give a talk on getting on 
line from internet cafes etc. It is not vas easy as it sounds :-(


Last time I did it we took our own 2m satellite dish with us :)

Have fun,
Shay
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Getting online away from Home.

[Malcolm J McCallum]

Can I make a suggestion thatb our Gurus give a talk on getting on line 
from internet cafes etc. It is not vas easy as it sounds :-(
Cheers everyone, Hurry up and retire I can*** Highly recommend 
it  :-)

Malcolm McCallum
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