Re: Internet in Europe for Travelers

2006-08-18 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 02:05 -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > On Aug 17, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > > > As a person who lives in Washington -- specifically in Seattle, I must > > say it really does come down to where you are. Seattle and the > > immediate vicinity has a lot of WiFi access

Re: Internet in Europe for Travelers

2006-08-18 Thread Ma Ackermann
-- at college, at the airports, on the train, in cafés, you name it.> Bottom line: If you're traveling to Europe with Debian and want Internet,> stay with someone who has it, or stay in a hotel that has a WLAN from a big> name provider. Expect to pay. VOIP is possible but the quality is

Re: Internet in Europe for Travelers

2006-08-18 Thread Nate Duehr
On Aug 17, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Ian Greenhoe wrote: As a person who lives in Washington -- specifically in Seattle, I must say it really does come down to where you are. Seattle and the immediate vicinity has a lot of WiFi access if you know where to look. Libraries, independent coffee houses, h

Re: Internet in Europe for Travelers

2006-08-17 Thread marlin9
| In bigger towns you can find an internet cafe every 100m (maybe not | 100m, but very often) - for about 1EURO per hour. My experience of Germany is, they are frequent only in really central places, and maybe up to 2 € per hour (depending on competition density). | use the PCs offered there.

Re: Internet in Europe for Travelers

2006-08-17 Thread Ian Greenhoe
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 19:03 +0200, André Wendt wrote: > I feel the strong urge to add things here. Don't get me wrong, this is > not a hate mail, as I always love to hear from Americans who enjoy their > trips here. But being a German myself, I have to say the exact same > things about Internet ac

Re: Internet in Europe for Travelers

2006-08-17 Thread André Wendt
David Johnson schrieb: > This is a follow up to a question I asked about Internet access in Europe. > Before I get any hate mail, I must say I absolutely love Europe and am > _very_ glad we have come, however the Internet is not nearly as accessible, > as fast, or as reliable as it

Re: Internet in Europe for Travelers

2006-08-16 Thread Evgeni Golov
Hello David, On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:27:23 -0500 "David Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In regards to Central Europe at least (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, > and Italy), we have arrived and I can safely say after a few months > in a few different countries that

Internet in Europe for Travelers

2006-08-16 Thread David Johnson
This is a follow up to a question I asked about Internet access in Europe. Before I get any hate mail, I must say I absolutely love Europe and am _very_ glad we have come, however the Internet is not nearly as accessible, as fast, or as reliable as it is in the US for travelers. I impressed and

Re: Europe

2006-05-10 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Wednesday, 10 May 2006 00:43, 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 t

Re: Europe

2006-05-10 Thread Jan Schledermann
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, an

Re: Europe

2006-05-09 Thread Arne Götje (高盛華)
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 t

Europe

2006-05-09 Thread David Johnson
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 Ita