You could have your email forward to a HotMail account.  Then you could
access it from anywhere with a browser.

You can get adapters for most new cell phones to connect to a PCMCIA modem.
 I've received transfer rates of 14.4Kbps - 19.2Kbps which is good enough for
email.

There are also PCMCIA Nics (3com and others) that support mobile wireless
connections.  Bell South now runs the old "RAM" network that offers mobile
wireless connections.  Again about 14.4Kbps - 19.2Kbps


Hi folks

This is perhaps off topic; if so I appologize.

I was talking with a couple this evening about internet access on the road.
They are snow birds, so spend their summer time at home [Wisconsin] and
winters in Florida and Arizona.  They wanted to know how I thought they
could best keep getting E-mail while on the road.  The have a cell phone,
but no standard phone connection.  They do have occasional access to the
Internet via a library computer etc.

They are open to any suggestions such as lap tops etc.

Has anyone dealt with this type of on the road e-mail support and if so how
do you think they are best served?

Mike Buraczewski
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