Internet Connection
 

Traveling to Dresden last half of July - a temporary Internet connection would help my employer feel more comfortable. Any one know of any such services in that area. I will be staying in a private home, they do not have a connection. Thanks for any help.

Depends on what you want to do. Web access? access your employer's email? <BR> <BR>Who is your current ISP? <BR> <BR>all the major ISPs (eg, Mindspring-Earthlink, AOL, Compuserve, etc) have "Local access" internet phone numbers for web access, abroad. These would use your normal account #s & passwords. Typically there is an additional fee of $0.10/minute, in addition to any local phone charges. <BR> <BR>for web based email (eg Hotmail) you can "usually" access your home email. But if your email is via your employer, that typically goes thru your employer's "firewall" & Hotmail won't be able to get at it. <BR> <BR>You should really check with your existing ISP and/or employer's I.S. Dept for more details.

You can also have your employer forward your emails to a hotmail (or yahoo, or whatever) account. You won't be able to reply from your own work email, but you'll be able to read everything and will be able to reply via your hotmail account (where you should then cc your work email address so you have a record of what you sent). And, messages will stay on your server at work, so when you return, you'll have them all in the office. It's an easy switch for your system administrator to "flip."

Brent, <BR> <BR>I do exactly as Helena suggested. Transfer everything to Hotmail. It saves me from carrying my laptop and all the accompanying adapters. Then you can access your mail from any cyber cafe, public library, etc. The only problem I sometimes run into is that Hotmail has a size limit on what it accepts. If you're expecting large spreadsheets for example, you may not receive them.

I caution you, that most medium to larger companies will use more sophisticated security on their internal email systems, than will a typical small business. IP addresses & resources internal to the company, may likely be inaccessible or invisible to "outside" users. <BR> <BR>for exmpl, my employer's internal email is NOT accessible via Hotmail. Trying to "ping" a desktop PC from "outside" similarly fails.

Thanks to everyone for the info--I think I will do as Stacy and Helena suggest--transfer everything to another account and use a cyber cafe or library. Much easier than tunneling and simpler, always go for simple. I can always tunnel if I have to actually work on any files. Thanks everyone for the ideas.