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  1. #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers View Post
    ..................You can also drive for 100s of Kms west of the Great Divide without any mobile reception of any type let alone G3 or NextG.............(
    Hell, you can drive 5 minutes from here on Highway 1 and not have any reception.

    Mick
    "If you need a machine today and don't buy it,

    tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."

    - Henry Ford 1938

  2. #17
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    I can walk from one room to the next and not get reception.

    Actually, it's worse than that. I get reception in one corner of the house. Walk 3 metres to the centre and no reception.

    I've looked at the Next G coverage map, all around me is red (good reception) except for 2 squares of pink (marginal) right where I live. I'd have to sign up for 2 years to see if I can actually use it.
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  3. #18
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    G'day.
    If you google WIFI LOCATIONS, it will take you to a site where you enter the name of the town and it will list the open wifi sites.
    I have it bookmarked at home, but am at work now.
    If you need it, give me a cooee.
    Hooroo.
    Regards, Trevor
    Grafton

  4. #19
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    Drive past my house
    There was a young boy called Wyatt
    Who was awfully quiet
    And then one day
    He faded away
    Because he overused White


    Floorsanding in Canberra and Albury.....

  5. #20
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    Thanks namtrak, I'll be the silver suki with two yellow boats on the trailer doing blockies every third day!

    Trevor, thanks for the WIFI locations tip, I'll sift through later. It looks as though for my purposes the maccas trick will be easiest though.

    Cheers,

    P

  6. #21
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    I am an Optus cable user

    but,

    I use telstra when travelling

    I have a wireless laptop and use it at McDonalds, more and more outlets are coming on line

    I connect to the internet at Mcdonalds for free , then to telstra and using a prepaid phone card connect to the webmail for optus and download my mail

    It is very slow , but OK for mail without attachments , tell you friends no attachments while we are travelling

    sending photo's would be slow

    because of speed or other reasons I cannot find out about it will not send some mail , get one of those messages that I cannot understand . But then send it to another address with the same ISP and it goes ???

    would like to get a wireless card and be able to use like a prepaid phone card , maybe in time

    The wireless card you use to connect to McDonalds is different to the wireless card for Optus or Telstra , this why you get into the hot spot where you can look at the internet , but for mail need to sign onto Telstra etc. I think the wireless cards for telstra and optus are specific to themselves , ie not to each other etc

    hope this helps

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