Internet - 05/31/04
Internet is a little tricky
here.
First, as far as I know any American
provider is going to slap an hourly surcharge on usage
here.
Secondly the providers over here are a
bit flaky. One even advertised you could log in 24 hours a day. I ended up going
with a company called GermanosNet. Cost was 57 Euros for 4 months. They seem
pretty good and connections are reliable. The only problem I have is that the
IBC blocks all dial out internet access calls. They say it's for security
reasons. Apparently most Greek providers have to use a certain prefix and they
block those on the PBX. That MIGHT not be an issue for those of you Games time
folks. I wouldn't think they would block any numbers in the Media Villages or
Venues but hey you never know.
However I did
find that my AT&T Global account has a prefix that can dial out. Makes me
feel like a hacker. Here's a link you can cut and past into you browsers that
should take you to their
site.
http://services.attglobal.net/svc?type=APS&p185=HELP&p29=ATTWEB&p201=ATT
If
this doesn't work just Google up AT&T
Global.
I should add that at the hotel
the best connection I can get is 26.4K and at the IBC it's 52K. Hopefully all
these new places will be able to do 50+K.
Posted: Tue - May 25, 2004 at 06:10 PM