Month-to-Month Dial-Up 'Net Access in the UK?

Wee asks: "I'm traveling to London (from the US) this coming Saturday. For various reasons I need to be able to stay occasionally connected to the Net while there. Instead of risking one of my daily-use laptops to the rigors of travel, I've built a working Toshiba 430CDT laptop from parts, purchased an appropriate power adapter, equipped it with an old modem/10mbps NIC (plus an Orinoco card, just because), searched Google for temporary two-week, UK-based dial-up accounts, only to find... nothing whatsoever. Zip, nada, nothing. Maybe AOL, but I'd have to think long and hard at giving them a credit card. I did find some companies that would sell me a monthly plan, but there were usually minimums. Does anyone know of 'temporary' dial-up accounts (with various local PoPs) in London? Failing that, does anyone know of an ISP I can sign up with for only one month?"

You've Iikely already rules this out...

[OldMiner]

But, assuming you mean by an "Orinoco card", a wireless Orinoco card [orinocowireless.com], you could always check for open community LANs in the areas you are travelling. At http://www.toaster.net/wireless/community.html [toaster.net] there's a list of open wirless LANs, including four such LANs in the UK, one specifically in London. [consume.net]

as a British ISP I resent that

[DrSkwid]

have you tried tham all?

ISPs aren't a breed they are people

as diverse as any other bunch of people

as other posters have said, get an 0845 local rate dial up

they are usually free to sign up, the ISP splits the call revenue with the telecomms company.

http://www.proweb.co.uk

is one of many