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Post by rio. »

An easy question i hope.

I'm off abroad soon and I want to take the laptop with me, theres no wifi in the hotel.

Ive never used one but will a UK bought pay as you go dongle work in spain :scratch: or will i have to buy one over there??????
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Dongles roam the same as a phone.

But it will cost an arm and a leg to use over there.

Check the networks to see who has the cheapest data roaming costs/offers
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Post by dave.m »

Certainly not cheap:
http://www.spainsim.com/vodusbadslmodem.htm

Have you thought about Internet Cafes?
http://tinyurl.com/ygq7llq

No doubt someone who visits there regularly will come up with the best solution, but those links to have a look at in the mean time.

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starbucks / costa / cafe Nero have them too.
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Post by ultimatehandyman »

I used my laptop in Crete last year using my laptop with a built in modem, so I just have to put a sim card in the computer and it connects to that network.

I have two sim cards, one of which is a Three sim card and this is used soley for internet access. If I used this in Crete it was £3.00 per MB

My mobile phone is with T Mobile and if I used that sim card it was £1.50 per MB, so I used to take the sim out of my phone and use that!

I know a guy that downloaded an album whils abroad and his mobile bill was over £500 when he returned home :shock: Apparently he phoned them first and they said that the download was included in his monthly plan, but obviously it was not!

Pubs and bars with FREE wi-fi are the best option, but as we found out in several bars last year, many of them do not have working wi-fi, so you sit down and order a drink and then ask for the password, only to be told that the wi-fi is down ::b
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Post by rio. »

Il think i'll wait and see what I can get out there.

Ive just been into a vodaphone shop and they reckon if i buy one this end its going to cost me about £16.00 an hour to use over there :shock:


Thanks for all the replys.
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Where you going Rio.
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Peurto del carmen, Lanzarote, on thursday.
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For 3 months :lol:

Have fun :thumbright:
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thescruff wrote:

Have fun :thumbright:
I intend too :wink:
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Post by gas4you »

Do you have BT Fon by any chance?

I ask becasue a customer of mine who is a BT engineer was telling me that when he was in Spain the hotel happened to be part of this, so he could log on, get all his internet for free and make calls for free as well.

I know how the system works, but do not know the specific details.

Maybe worth looking it up and even joining

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Post by scot-canuck »

Fon does work well (not solely BT, BT are their UK partners...a sneaky way to boost their "free" hotspot numbers...sadly in the UK they are mostly in residential streets) Spain its very popular, and I'm told there are a lot of hotspots available...just not in puero del carmen ( maps.fon.com )

General FON site ( http://www.fon.com/en/info/whatsFon )
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Post by rio. »

As it turns out they've just had free wifi put in.

The trouble is you can only get a signal from the router in the bar :thumbright:
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