Travelling with Wireless in Europe? 19
MMC asks: "Later on this year I'm going to travel in Europe for a honeymoon (specifically Italy and maybe others) and now that I have a digital camera I'm going to take a laptop etc. Dialing up is fine, but I'm really keen to find places which have publicly accessible wireless networks or somewhere I can plug the laptop in with Ethernet. I'm happy to pay for access in a Cafe or Hotel etc.
Does anyone have any pointers (other than wandering around with NetStumbler)? Most Internet Cafe references seem quite incomplete and out of date."
No laptop (Score:5, Insightful)
Get your prioroties straight... (Score:3, Insightful)
What to do (Score:5, Funny)
Re:one more time... (Score:1)
Re:one more time... (Score:1)
By the way, there should be internet cafés in all major cities. Even in the tiny town I live is one, so checking slashdot should be no problem..
Re:one more time... (Score:2)
Actually, it's a capitalization contest.
Re:Beware of the 50hz/60hz power difference (Score:3, Informative)
Huh? The only thing the electronics see is DC voltage. And this one is the same wherever you go; that's why you can pick a european video card (eg Guillemot) (or whatever other computer part) and plug it without problem in your computer. So given that, could you explain how the BIOS is supposed to drop 6 minutes an hour? Moreover, that drop is 10%, and the difference between 50Hz and 60Hz is 16.7% or 20%, depending on which one is the reference.
Re:Beware of the 50hz/60hz power difference (Score:1)
Use good old phonebooks (Score:1)
802.11 connectivity in Italian hotels (Score:2)
A company called MegaBeam plans to offer 802.11 connectivity in some major hotel chains and highly crowded areas (airports, big railway stations) across all italy.
The url is here [megabeam.it] but I'm afraid its only in Italian. They already cover the airports of Fiumicino (Roma) and Linate (Milano) and a few hotels and plan on covering the whole Starhotels chain very soon.
Not terribly cheap (16 a day or 84/month) but better than nothing (and AFAIK there was absolutely nothing before this one)).
Hope it helps, ciao.
Ditch laptop, get a digital wallet (Score:3, Informative)
Don't take the laptop; it's fraught with temptations for things you probably shouldn't do on your honeymoon (and I don't just mean pr0n).
But you do want to take a digital camera; and you don't want to run out of 'film.' So get a digital wallet, like the Terapin Mine [terapin-mine.com], or the Minds@Work MindStor or Digital Wallet [mindsatwork.net].
Internet Cafe (Score:1)
That's basically it. Europe is bustling with internet cafes. You can just plug in there and upload it to whatever home system any true geek will have...
Yes. Don't forget. Europe works at 220 volts.
related question (Score:1)
Thanks
David.
Hotels with Internet Access (Score:1)
Afaik, the access in the hotel rooms is ethernet, while airport lounges is wireless. They are sure to litter the check-in counter with brochures of everything that's available.
It costs like hell though. :p)
A coworkers six year old daughter managed to get billed for 80 euros after saying yes to some messages (hotel's internet messages, not porn