Thanks for all the information on this thread.

ATTGlobal looks like a possibility but their rates seem on the high side, and I'm put off by some of the negative comments here.

UUNet doesn't have nodes in countries I will be travelling to in the near future, so they're out.

CompuServe or AOL may be of interest, but I have a question. Can you access them through the standard tools in Windows: Dial Up Networking, Internet Explorer, and Outlook Express? (I don't want to use their proprietary front ends.) And can you pick up and send e-mail to and from a non-CIS/AOL address (i.e., dgolds.com)? I was a CIS subscriber for years but got tired of stupid restrictions like not being able to send file attachments over the Internet.