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Detailed travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Detailed Travelogue on Australia and New Zealand

Larry
2006-05-27 03:23:16

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over the hotel/pubs
(in "hotel" rooms), though they're often quite noisy. The CB Private Hotel
though, isn't a pub, but a large, old building that was once the largest
hotel in Sydney. You get a tiny private room (shared bath) for $40 a
night. While the CB Private Hotel wasn't bad, the George Street Private
Hotel (in the same neighborhood) was much better (at $32 a night). It was
full on the day I arrived, though I stayed there at the end of the trip.
In the lobby of the CB Private Hotel was a small, automated Internet
kiosk. You put in A$2 for a few minutes of internet access. At first, I
thought this was a great idea, but soon found out how useless it was. The
only thing the kiosk would let you do is create a NEW temporary email
account for yourself while you're in Australia. It would NOT do what most
people really want to be able to do -- telnet into their EXISTING email
accounts at home to check the mail in their real accounts. While the kiosks
were pretty useless, I did wander by a few public internet businesses in
Australia and New Zealand. In Dunedin (New Zealand) I walked past a sign
that said "public internet access inside and down the stairs" so I decided
to check it out. Sure enough, there was a little room with computers, where
for just a couple of dollars, you could telnet home and check your email.
The connection was fast, and it was there in Dunedin where I first caught up
on my email. Later, in Adelaide (Australia), I saw a similar place.
However, when I sat down to telnet, the connection was so unbelievably slow,
it literally took 2 minutes to have 10 characters appear on the screen.
Just to read one email would have taken -- literally -- an hour. After 15
minutes, I gave up, dropped carrier, and listened while the owner explained
that the lines to the U.S. were always clogged. ...

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