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Old 3rd November 2003 | 18:20
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FlyingForFun

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ISP recommendations

Bit of a long-shot, this one, but I'll give it a go:

Can anyone recommend an ISP which:

- I can use in the USA (and preferably in the UK too)
- In can install on Windows 2000 without any local administrator priveleges.



A bit of background: I'm shortly heading off to the US for a few weeks, and I was planning on taking my work-issued laptop with me. I can dial in to the office from the laptop, but this has some limitations (not being able to access my non-work e-mail account through the firewall at work is the main one).

Yesterday, I tried to install AOL onto the laptop so that I can access my e-mail while I'm away. It failed, of course, because I'm not a local administrator on the laptop - I can't believe it never occurred to me that this would be a problem. I haven't tried any other ISPs yet, but I assume they'd all have the same problem. The chances of me getting any local admin privileges are somewhere between zero and none, so if anyone knows of a way around this, please let me know! Otherwise I'll have to either give my work e-mail address to everyone I want to stay in contact with, or find an internet cafe.

Thanks!

FFF
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