Internet Cafés, or Cybercafes, are nice places to visit if your depend on net access on travels abroad, or in your home country, but there are some questions you should ask the café owner if you plan to keep the connection with the net during a travel via a café. |
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Visiting a lot of cafés in Europe this summer - I found they where mostly usable for surfing only - working on a site was nearly impossible.
- Do they accept that you configure the e-mail client to receive your e-mail directly from your ISP? (Or do you have to redirect your mail to Hotmail, Yahoo-mail etc.)
- Do they accept FTP - so you could download and upload files to and from your site?
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Do they have a HTML-editor, Paint Shop Pro and other software?
- Is it possible to make a temporary installation of software you bring with you?
- What other equipment do you have access to during your session at the café?
- Is it possible to check you email via a web-based email checker - visit MailStart and check it out.
Essential:
Things to remember to bring with you
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Bring your own bookmarks file on diskette
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- Bring a note of your username, password, POP and SMTP address (in the E-mail client) and the FTP-address you use to transfer files to your site. It's incredibly easy to forget these if you have them installed so you don't have to remember them daily.
And last but not least - visit Internet Café Guide at http://www.netcafeguide.com/ to check for the latest update about the cafes at your destination!
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