Re: [wlug] is Mgetty the right tool ?

Daniel Lawson wrote:

As another solution, you could use your cellphone (or any phone you are handy to) to dial into the commodity Internet, and run a VPN such as IPSec or encrypted PPTP over the Internet back to your home network.

One benefit of this is that most ISPs have toll-free dialin, so you won't be paying a toll call to connect to your home network (and therefore wouldn't be a problem just borrowing a handy landline).

I could also imagine that the hassle of setting up a new ISP account, plus all the wonderful charges associated to dialing up with a cellphone would be much more beneficial in the short term to dial into a private line. This is what my mums work does as they only require internet once or twice a day. - Drew