RE: COMMON at Gaylord Palm, Orlando

Sprint has a card for laptops that lets you use their PCS Vision from
anywhere a Sprint cel phone will work.  Speed is supposed to be about
twice that of a modem.  It's not cheap but enables access from
pratically anywhere.

Personally, I use a Treo Palm/cel phone.  I have access to corporate
email, web browsing, TN5250, etc.  While it doesn't really replace my
laptop, it'll due if I'm out of the office for a couple of days.
Battery life is the biggest concern.

-----Original Message-----
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 10:50 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: COMMON at Gaylord Palm, Orlando


Never use the calling cards from your room - they do charge for that.
Some 
hotels even block all 800 numbers registered to calling card companies.
I 
had a gas station pay phone which blocked both 800-call-att and whatever

the number was for MCI.

Have you heard of a cell phone?  However I can see your modem concerns.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin