Short-term Michigan dailup

[ottothecow]

I am going on vacation in a little over a week and will be gone for 2 weeks or so. Usually I like to leave the tech behind but I will have a need for access to internet (primarily email) since I will not have a lot of time home before I return to school. The area I am in is heavily wooded and by the lake so I barely get a cell phone signal and data is impossible.

What I need is a dialup ISP I can use for a short while for the cheapest possible amount. What it has to have is:
A local dialup number (I will be between St. Joseph and South Haven with an area code of 269 IIRC)
Linux compatability (my laptop runs (k)Ubuntu and has a built in modem. it needs to work with this which rules out something like an AOL free trial)

Thanks for the help,
Otto

 

[crispy2010]

If you have broadband, my dsl company provides me with free dial up that is available from most anywhere, mabye your provider offers he same?

 

[dBTelos]

Its Michigan.

 

[ottothecow]

I have comcast

they dont give you ******

 

[1N0V471V]

Originally posted by: ottothecow
I have comcast

they dont give you ******

Yeah they do, bad service

 

[savvy]

Why should they provide you with dialup? o_o

 

[Henny]

all2easy.net is $5/mo. (I don't know if they have a minimum)

Good luck getting a modem to work with Kubuntu. Most modems are winmodems and they're very Linux unfriendly. Your best bet is an old fashioned external H/W modem like a USR 5686E.

 

[ottothecow]

I have never used it but my modem is supposed to be supported by ltmodem

ltmodem itself is no longer developed but somebody has made 2.6 packages of it and I even found ubuntu packages already made so I think I might sign up with all2easy and try it.

only problem is that all2easy's signup site isnt working well (says it is too busy) and that is kind of a bad sign in an ISP

 

[ottothecow]

anybody tried dialup.cc ?

 

[vailr]

NetZero offers a Lindows version of their dialup software; 10 hours per month at no cost.
Don't know whether it could be made to work with Ubuntu.

 

[corkyg]

As was said, many ISP's offer expanded dialup links. I have use iPass for over 5 years now - good anywhere in the world!

In most cases today, public Internet access and webmail can also be used. Internet Cafes, public libraries, etc., can keep one in contact.

But, I keep good old reliable iPass on my laptop's tool bar. It is global.

iPass

 

[Gigantopithecus]

You mention 'before I go back to school'; if you're a student at a public university anywhere in the US there's a good possibility you can get a guest account with MichNet. If you can't get a guest account with them, most unis have dial up access numbers, including 800 numbers for non-local access. Then there's always phone cards for non local calls that can be had pretty cheap.