<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">On a serious note (on PPRuNe?) I just love the N.American hotels where they have the Ethernet plug lying there beside the phone - and charge between nothing and $10 a day for unlimited DSL access. I replaced my (broken) PCMCIA modem with a Xircom modem/Ethernet adapter so I could use these, and I love it!
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One thing to check. Some ISPs only allow outgoing mail traffic from computers on their own networks. Thus you might find that your mail server refuses to allow you to send outgoing mail since you are logged in from a machine (and with an IP address) on the hotel's internet provider (when using in-room DSL)