Thanks Peter for that lengthy synopsis. I think I'll try to arrange a mifi upon arrival for both USA and Canada service.
Regards Pete On 15/05/2013, at 3:47 PM, Peter Faulks <peterfau...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > Using a Mac in Europe > > Just a follow up to Peter's traveling question, I > though this might broaden the scope of answers. > > We are currently traveling around Europe with a > Mac Book Pro lap top, iPad 4 and iPhone 4. I > purchased an international power adapter and set > up a two pin plug to Aussie line socket top, > which I plug into an Aussie small 4 way power > board. I can then plug in all our Australian > plugs and keep items charged up and working. I > also purchased an iPad car adapter and universal > car adapter to use ipad and other devices in our > hire car. > > England > In England we found hotels charged about .50p per > minute Internet and we were in England for four > weeks so I purchased a 3G Wi Fi Huawei E5331 for > £39 plus one months service (2gb download) £30 > from Three UK, (this allows 10 connected devices) > however the device is locked to the UK and could > only be topped up at the Three store because you > need a UK address to purchase this device and a > passport to obtain a Sim Card. > > Worse they will not accept Internet top up unless > you have a UK post code and UK Credit Card, so we > found this quite inconvenient having to find a 3 > store to purchase a top up voucher. However the > device worked brilliantly with the iPad as a GPS > using Maps but once we left England we obviously > lost Internet connection. > > Italy > We traveled to Italy where I purchased a Wind ZTE > MF63 Wi Fi for 69 Euro, (allows 5 connected > devices) our hotels were charging .65c US$ per > minute for very slow connections, (double rip > off, high cost and slow to gather emails etc.), > this included 5 Euro and two weeks service and > worked fine in Italy (12 days). Although the > salesman advised that this device was unblocked > it proved later not to be the case. > > Spain > When we arrived in Spain, I purchased a Wi-Fi sim > from Vodaphone, (20Euro) but this would not > connect through either Huawei (UK) or ZTE MF63 > (Italy) devices, so I purchased another Huawei > E5331 Wi Fi from Orange for 39Euro plus one > months service 2Gb for 40Euro. This works fine in > Spain but again will be blocked for other > countries. > > For the Phone we purchased 3G sim cards in > England which only worked in England unless you > pay 28p per minute for Roaming, but we later > found a world sim card in Spain for 20 Euro that > works in 10 countries (Lebara movil World Card). > A better alternative would have been purchase a > cheap UK phone these work throughout Europe, and > can be puchased for abouth £30. > > I did try to organize something in Perth before > leaving but no one seemed to know what was best, > our service provider thought roaming on our phone > over 7 weeks would be excessive. > > Sorry for the ramble but I just though I would > pass this on to future travelers. If anyone has > better methodology I would be pleased to hear it > because we are still in Europe. > > There are some places where free Wi-Fi is > available but we needed to carry on working > whilst traveling and to keep in touch with family > and for Internet searches for hotels and venues. > Plus the GPS for driving. > > Faulksy > > -- > Peter & Irene Faulks > Unit 1, 9 Newsam Close > PARKWOOD > Western Australia 6147 > > Phone: +618 9457 0747 (h) > Fax: +618 9457 0444 > Peter Mobile: 0416 187 937 > Peter Mobile: in Italy 393420462020 > Irene Mobile: 0439 933 404 > Irene Mobile: in Italy 3420462020 > Email: peterfau...@westnet.com.au > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
