Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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Both these ISP's work with the Visor, and have thousands of numbers. For no extra cost can you "roam" and while your traveling use a local dialup number in the city your in to call in? or can you only use the area code in the city you live in? Without extra charges. I know AOL lets you do this for free. But I don't want AOL :-D (duhh!)

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Earthlink Roaming

miradu2000

At home I use @home cable for the speed but I subscribe to Earthlink for access when traveling. It's free in the USA but they charge $0.15/minute overseas and you need simple changes to your modem setting and line converters.

http://www.earthlink.net/home/access/roaming.html

Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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I'm talking about Just in the US and Canada. I don't think I'll be going to Eurooe or Asia anytime soon

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I use AT&T Global (geared more for professional use than home...see www.attglobal.net), not Worldnet. They have three different pricing plants, the cheapest being for $5.95 a month + 30 hours. You can roam for free in the U.S. with AT&T, and they have tons of local numbers. Works great with my Thinmodem+. I got it mainly because they have the best "overseas" roaming charges ($4.95 an hour if you get the "premium" 24.95@month plan, $9.95 an hour otherwise), and the most access numbers abroad as well. I highly recommend it.

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I use Earthlink, and you can travel all over and still use your account. All you have to do is change the phone number to one that is a local call from where you are dialling (well, you don't have to change the number if you don't mind paying long distance charges). I think the last total I saw was 3,000 dial-up numbers across the U.S., and I have yet to visit a city or town that didn't have one.

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I use Earthlink, and you can travel all over and still use your account. All you have to do is change the phone number to one that is a local call from where you are dialling (well, you don't have to change the number if you don't mind paying long distance charges). I think the last total I saw was 3,000 dial-up numbers across the U.S., and I have yet to visit a city or town that didn't have one.

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Registered: Dec 2000
Location: June 10, 2001 San Clemente Pier , CA
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I use Earthlink and I download a free database of US access #'s (197k) that I use on my free MobileDBlite.

All works great with my 56k xircom modem.

I was probably the one hogging the lines during Comdex. I was on every night gabbing about the cool things I saw. Even WON a royal flush one night $$$$. This forced me to go back the next day and buy the lie-detector, pen-scanner, and 6gb pocket hard-drive.

note: If you have AAA auto club, you get $2 off per month on Earthlink. $17.95

Might also want to look into NetZero. I've been watching the Lakers(and that other team) and the commercials for their new PAY version($10/mo) look interesting.

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Registered: Apr 2001
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Forgot to mention -- I don't know if Earthlink offers the same, but AT&T Global provides its American subscribers with free roaming inside Canada, as well as many local access numbers up there. Essentially, it's a North American (minus Mexico) ISP, which may be perfect for your requirements.

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Well, with my voicestream service, I can be anywhere in the US and dial my local Earthlink access number. The phone area code stays the same, and so will your access number.

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Earthlink Phone # Dbase

gbgood,

How did you get the Earthlink Phone # database that you could store on the Visor? I've only got a html image.

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check palmgear.com. there is an app that will let you view html docs on your palm. I use it and it works fairly well. However it is a demo

Registered: Apr 2001
Location: 'braska
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Originally posted by miradu2000
For no extra cost can you "roam" and while your traveling use a local dialup number in the city your in to call in? or can you only use the area code in the city you live in? Without extra charges.

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With the AT&T Worldnet service, yes, you can access any of the domestic dial-up numbers without a problem. You can get a list of these from MemoWare in PalmDOC format. The list is also available in several of the DB formats.

If there is no local dial-up, you can also use the 800 number for a fee (I don't recall what it is. )

Another site that might be useful that I don't think has been mentioned is the Worldnet Users Reference Desk

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Re: Earthlink Phone # Dbase

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How did you get the Earthlink Phone # database that you could store on the Visor? I've only got a html image.

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Re: Earthlink Phone # Dbase

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gbgood,

How did you get the Earthlink Phone # database that you could store on the Visor? I've only got a html image.

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Re: Re: Earthlink Phone # Dbase

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Originally posted by Soul Raven
Before Earthlink went to this Javascript-based thing for phone numbers, I selected all phone numbers in the U.S., which was displayed in an HTML table. I copied/pasted that into Excel, then imported that in a thinkDB database. Viola! Searchable by city, state or area code. The bad thing is that it is a couple of years old. I wish they would go back to the old way.

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Registered: Dec 2000
Location: June 10, 2001 San Clemente Pier , CA
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I found the memoware site with the earthlink access#.
http://www.memoware.com/cgi-bin/mws...i?Any=earthlink

I use the one for MobileDB Lt(free database app) but there are others. Give it a shot. This is what I use when I travel. Mine is only updated to July 00' but it has worked from everywhere so far.

good luck.

Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Of course...if your wireless plan is one that allows free roaming and no long distance (like VoiceStream's North American Neighborhood plans) then as long as your ISP's number is within the U.S. and Canada (not Mexico) you only get charged for airtime, but not roaming or long distance. So in that case you don't need to worry about most of the things discussed above. This is the route I took.