On Wednesday 10 May 2006 06:43, David Johnson wrote: > We're travelling to Europe for a year and would like to setup a > Debian Laptop. For those Europeans out there, what technologies have > you found to work well? We're currently exploring the high speed > wireless cards that include UMNTS, and 3G. Specifically we'll be > heading to Italy, Switzerland, and the UK. Any thoughts comments on > the best ways to connect to the Internet for mobile users of Debian > would be great.
Well, when I'm travelling back to Europe, I usually stick with the Internet Cafes and use their wireless network... so, 802.11b/g should be safe. :) I haven't played with 3G in Europe yet, but I believe it depends on the provider you choose and their roaming contracts and prices. I further believe that UMTS is available at least in the bigger cities. In the countryside, however it's down to GPRS. If you have a 3G cellphone already, which also supports GSM900/1800, you should be able to use internet access everywhere... either via UMTS or GPRS, the phone will choose by itself. I don't know about the UMTS PCMCIA cards, but I believe it should be the same in that case. HTH Arne -- Arne Götje (高盛華) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Spam catcher. Address might change in future!) PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/685D1E8C Fingerprint: 2056 F6B7 DEA8 B478 311F 1C34 6E9F D06E 685D 1E8C Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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