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[geschwin AT email.unc.edu]

Thank you all for your concern about my ability to browse from Africa. 
Bandwidth indeed is an issue, as is a reliable connection. For times 
when I do need to get to pages that are blocked using my primary ISP, I 
have a backup account with a dial-up ISP (up to 33.6k only - they 
haven't switched to this advanced 56k technology yet!) that doesn't 
appear to have its IPs blacklisted. I am also considering dropping the 
less than reliable DSL that I currently subscribe to and going with a 
satellite ISP. I talked to a representative of the satellite ISP 
yesterday and they offer a free one week trial membership for me to 
test it out. I'm seriously thinking about giving that a try once I'm 
back from vacation later this month. If I'm lucky maybe their IPs 
aren't blacklisted either.

One thing I learned living here in Africa is to NEVER take anything, 
such as basic utilities for granted. I have had a two week landline 
telephone outage, frequent power outages (backup generators are a 
wonderful thing) and frequent water outages (place your bets as to 
whether water or only gurgling sounds will come out of the spigot once 
you open the faucet). First water outage I experiences was while I was 
in the shower with a head full of shampoo. Now that SUCKED!

Quoting Magnus <magnus AT trilug.org>:

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> Greg Brown wrote:
> > Can someone hook you up with a ssh proxy?  That might be one way to
> > get around some of the block pages from your African IP range.
> > Though I imagine you are lacking in bandwidth on top of having your
> > IP ranges blacklisted.
>
>
> If he has a TriLUG membership he is entitled to a shell account there.
> He can set up a *compressed* ssh tunnel and use ssh as a SOCKS proxy so
> anywhere he surfs will think he's coming from RTP as opposed to Africa.
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