Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Laptop in Europe
Hi! You do need a plug adapter and you do not need voltage converter if your ac adapter runs on both 110V and 220V (it should be written on a ac adapter) Cheers Jarek -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Laptop in Europe
After searching and searching and searching, I finally found one internet cafe in Paris, and it doesn't seem to me that it had laptop stations... just about 100 PCs you could get on the internet with. Haven't been to Rome yet, so I don't know if it's different there... but yeah, Paris didn't seem too well connected.. Amsterdam on the other hand, had quite a few cafes, and my hostel even had wireless internet. I think too all you'll need is the plug convertor... check the AC adapter piece on your cord, should specify if it can handle 50Hz and 220 Volts. // Scott Carmichael - http://jobe.ca/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 08.24.03 at 17:28: Anyone on this list gone to Europe w/ a laptop? Going to Italy and France. I have an IBM T30. I know I'll need a plug adapter, but don't know if I need a voltage converter. I don't think so, but thought I better check. And, if anyone's used an internet cafe in Paris or Rome, charges? Thanks for any information. -- Ed Jabbour -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Laptop in Europe
On 2003.08.24 22:10, Scott Carmichael wrote: After searching and searching and searching, I finally found one internet cafe in Paris, and it doesn't seem to me that it had laptop stations... just about 100 PCs you could get on the internet with. Haven't been to Rome yet, so I don't know if it's different there... but yeah, Paris didn't seem too well connected.. Amsterdam on the other hand, had quite a few cafes, and my hostel even had wireless internet. I recently drove across Canada, and had a very hard time finding internet cafe's that provided wired _or_ wireless access for laptops. However, I had a fairly decent time finding open wireless access points. Of course you have to consider that (a) these people don't know what their doing, or (b) are very kind, so I tried to be as light on bandwidth as possible. I had luck in cities like Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, etc. I'm not extremely familiar with wifi adoption in europe (assuming it to be about the same or better than here), and they might even use the same radio frequency, so in the case that you _need_ an internet connection, theres always that option. -- Chris I The pollution's at that awkward stage. Too thick to navigate and too thin to cultivate. -- Doug Sneyd pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Laptop in Europe
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:47:10AM -0400, Chris I wrote: I recently drove across Canada, and had a very hard time finding internet cafe's that provided wired _or_ wireless access for laptops. However, I had a fairly decent time finding open wireless access points. Of course you have to consider that (a) these people don't know what their doing, or (b) are very kind, so I tried to be as light on bandwidth as possible. Downtown Toronto actually has a lot of public wireless access points, many of them marked and advertised as such. Of course, with a banker and coffee shop density as high as it is in Toronto, you kind of need that sort of access. You do have to have an account with one of the providers to use it legally, of course. Actually, in Canada there's recently been an agreement between the four different wireless providers to co-operate in setting up such 'hot spots' so that no matter which provider you're with, you can use any of the hot spots around to hook up to the net. Was in the _Globe and Mail_ a few days ago. From some of what I've heard, most parts of Europe have their networks publicly owned still, so within a single country it should be fairly consistent. No idea on how well that would work travelling between countries, though. ---+--- Bryan Feir VA3GBF|This Santa Claus business is played out. It's a Home:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | sneaking, underhand method, and the sooner it's | exposed the better. -- Stephen Leacock ---+--- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] [OT] Laptop in Europe
From some of what I've heard, most parts of Europe have their networks publicly owned still, so within a single country it should be fairly consistent. No idea on how well that would work travelling between countries, though. Phone jacks and 220V plugs are typically different between European countries... IIRC in some cases different countries use the same jack, but wire it differently! You can get a travel kit at a good (European?) electronics store, or at an electronics store at an airport. I would expect you can find publically accessible (privately hosted) WiFi hotspots at all major European cities. But, again, regulations concerning WiFi are different between European countries. They differ in channels allowed, licensing, and if you are allowed to use it outside of a building (as if the radio waves will stop at the walls...). Any Italians or French out on this list? Gwendolyn. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Laptop in Europe
Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: From some of what I've heard, most parts of Europe have their networks publicly owned still, so within a single country it should be fairly consistent. No idea on how well that would work travelling between countries, though. Phone jacks and 220V plugs are typically different between European countries... IIRC in some cases different countries use the same jack, but wire it differently! You can get a travel kit at a good (European?) electronics store, or at an electronics store at an airport. I would expect you can find publically accessible (privately hosted) WiFi hotspots at all major European cities. But, again, regulations concerning WiFi are different between European countries. They differ in channels allowed, licensing, and if you are allowed to use it outside of a building (as if the radio waves will stop at the walls...). Any Italians or French out on this list? Gwendolyn. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list An italian here. You're right about plug madness, I'm back from a long trip to Amsterdam, Copenaghen, Stockholm, Helsinki ... and I found my plug converter very useful. About hotspots I'm not very usefull because of my GPRS internal modem which works perfectly all around europe at a reasonable speed. In italy it's quite rare to find free hotspots but you can find some internet cafè in major cities. When you are in Verona I'll give you some of our 2Mbit for free (only to gentoo people of course). All this because here you can join one of many internet providers for free and pay just the phone call so internet cafè is not a business anymore and, you know, italian people doesn't consider a lot all the services young people travelling have. Ciao Andrea -- Don't take life to seriously, You'll never get out alive -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Vi piacerebbe essere in grado di influenzare importanti decisioni di organizzazioni e governo dando la vostra opinione? Clicca e partecipa Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=1725d=25-8 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
