Compass Computing » Computing http://www.compasscomputing.co.uk/blog Pointing you in the right direction Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:02:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Internet Access – away from home http://www.compasscomputing.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/09/internet-access-away-from-home/ http://www.compasscomputing.co.uk/blog/index.php/2008/09/internet-access-away-from-home/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:34:52 +0000 Jon http://www.compasscomputing.co.uk/blog/?p=10 I’ve recently starting using T-Mobile’s Web’n'Walk USB Stick, a fantastic device on it’s own allowing [up to] 4.5Mb/s speed [realistically slower, but still great] anywhere you can get a mobile phone signal – and in the UK that’ll be most places you want it, although speed drops depending on the data connection type [GPRS;3G or HSDPA which should, in theory, get up to 7.2 Mb/s before too long].

The other great thing about Web’n'walk is that it comes with free HotSpot access [as does BT Home Broadband if you read carefully]. To get your password just text OPEN to 9526 within the web’n'walk program and you’ll then receive your HotSpot username and password.

T-Mobile have partnered with a whole host of other companies so you can get access at McDonalds, Starbucks, airports and so on. I’m typing this from Munster Airport in Germany – as it works across Europe as well.

So if you invest in the T-Mobile web’n'walk and like me have BT Broadband at home then maybe anywhere you are with your laptop so will the Internet be!

If there’s no hotspot overseas then it’s not the end of the world as in many contries Internet access is only £1.50 per minute. I would also recommend PopPeeper as a tiny email program that will allow you to access as many mailboxes as you like, but only download a small amount of the email (5k is normally enough to see if it’s worth your pennies to download the rest of just press delete).

The other thing regarding email away from home is that you will need to ensure you have outgoing [SMTP] access. If you are connected via t-mobile web’n'walk this can be set to “smtp.t-email.co.uk”.

Don’t forget that all Compass Computing and OxheyNet provide you with web mail for use when away from home. Just go to http://webmail.[yourdomainname.co.uk] enter your username and password and it’s all there waiting for you!

Well that’s all for now.

Surfing away from home….. it’s very handy :)

Jon

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