Travel Tips: Finding Wi-Fi and Power Outlets
- 13 years ago
Travel Tips: Finding Wi-Fi and Power Outlets - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats.
If you are on the road and you need to find a Wi-Fi connection for your electronics or need to make sure that you have a plug-in to power up, my best advice is Mc Donalds, actually. Anywhere in the world, well and we all know Mc Donalds are all over the world. So most places, wherever you are going to find the Mc Donalds, they have free Wi-Fi which is really a fabulous feature. And sometimes they have really good air conditioning too which is a bonus.
So basically if you just go into any Mc Donalds you will be able to pick up normally a free Wi-Fi signal and you can sit there and, you know, work on your phone or your netbook or whatever.
Other ways that I find connections is really I carry an I-phone with me and so, basically anytime I stop at a coffee place or maybe I am walking by some place and I think I want to stop at and sit for a while, all I will have to do is just to take out my phone and see if there is a Wi-Fi signal around and see if there is anything I can quick hop on. So without having a like get out a whole laptop and set up and everything, I just quick check with my phone. And if there is a signal that is good and I can get on there then maybe I will stay longer and do some other internet work.
As far as charging things, keeping things charged on the road, I do have a lot of electronics that I am charging all the time. Certainly if you have limited plugs, which many times you do in more budget accommodations and in different parts of the world. I would say, I just plug-in through my USB ports on on my laptop and charge like my phone and things like that through there.
Obviously my laptop I just charge in the wall and same with camera batteries in still on. You just have to be kind of vigilant about it I would say because we have to remember every time you check into a hotel plug in your electronics, because there will be a time when you will forget and you have a dead battery and be very unhappy.
If you are on the road and you need to find a Wi-Fi connection for your electronics or need to make sure that you have a plug-in to power up, my best advice is Mc Donalds, actually. Anywhere in the world, well and we all know Mc Donalds are all over the world. So most places, wherever you are going to find the Mc Donalds, they have free Wi-Fi which is really a fabulous feature. And sometimes they have really good air conditioning too which is a bonus.
So basically if you just go into any Mc Donalds you will be able to pick up normally a free Wi-Fi signal and you can sit there and, you know, work on your phone or your netbook or whatever.
Other ways that I find connections is really I carry an I-phone with me and so, basically anytime I stop at a coffee place or maybe I am walking by some place and I think I want to stop at and sit for a while, all I will have to do is just to take out my phone and see if there is a Wi-Fi signal around and see if there is anything I can quick hop on. So without having a like get out a whole laptop and set up and everything, I just quick check with my phone. And if there is a signal that is good and I can get on there then maybe I will stay longer and do some other internet work.
As far as charging things, keeping things charged on the road, I do have a lot of electronics that I am charging all the time. Certainly if you have limited plugs, which many times you do in more budget accommodations and in different parts of the world. I would say, I just plug-in through my USB ports on on my laptop and charge like my phone and things like that through there.
Obviously my laptop I just charge in the wall and same with camera batteries in still on. You just have to be kind of vigilant about it I would say because we have to remember every time you check into a hotel plug in your electronics, because there will be a time when you will forget and you have a dead battery and be very unhappy.