On Sun, 10 Feb 2013, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
On 10/02/2013 6:50 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
http://www.globalsim.covermore.com.au/
I saw the above advertised today at the travel expo. Is it any good? Are there better options?
That looks a bit interesting, but 25c/MB can still add up heaps.
Yes, it's rather expensive. $0.63 per meg for data access in the US is unreasonably expensive given the low costs to end users there.
All I need is the ability to receive SMS and data access. Phone calls while travelling generally aren't of interest to me.
I usually send SMS via email only (email2sms) -- cost 7c / message.
Incoming SMS get sent to my mail account using an Android app [1], so whenever I check email, I can see SMS.
That's not going to work for Nagios SMS regarding the reliability of the mail server... Of course I could use a Gmail account for that, I expect that none of my customers would complain if I didn't fix something because Google was down.
I think it would be best to get a local SIM when you travel so that you pay the least for the data. I advise against using free WiFi for safety and security reasons, especially if you aren't using some kind of tunnel to protect yourself -- anybody using POP email has their username and password sent in clear text (usually).
Yes. It's a trade-off of convenience vs price. But as for checking email, all you need is a MUA that checks SSL certificates or which tunnels POP/IMAP over SSH and you don't have any problems. Not that 3G net access is a suitable solution to such problems either, don't trust everyone who has root at your telco. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/