[lug] International ISPs for Travelers

[rm at mamma.varadinet.de]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:39:47AM -0700, Ferdinand P. Schmid wrote:
> I have had good luck with Earthlink.net.  They worked great in Europe - my
> dial-up Earthlink connection in Germany seemed faster at times than my
> sister's ISDN line through a local ISP (t-online.de for those of you who want
> to know).  I was generally surprised how heavily oversold this particular
> German ISP is.

Yup, they're really bad! Unfortunately, since they are the former state telecom
they own most of the cables, so they can make live hard for competitors (since
almost all cables are underground over here it's pretty expensive to put down
new cables).

 Ralf