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I arrived at the kit below by adding gear only as needed. I started with just an iPhone and laptop and only added to that when it was literally impossible to get reliable internet at my accommodations with the gear I already had. I have trial-and-errored through a bunch of other gear that turned out to be unhelpful or not worth the bulk (e.g. higher ...
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I'm in the same position as you -- I've been working in Sweden for the last 5 years, and I can tell you from experience that certain things will be difficult or nigh impossible if you don't have personnummer.
Talking specifically about banking, no, it won't be possible at all. Even with personal number you might run into difficulties if you are only a ...
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TrueCrypt (unless it is already installed) requires administrator access to the computer. This will almost certainly be problematic. This even applies to the TrueCrypt Portable version. TrueCrypt is not designed to be run on non-trusted machines.
Instead of TrueCrypt, I recommend you use KeePass to store this data. It is built to handle string data ...
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@alx9r wrote a fantastically detailed post here, but I think it may be overkill. I'm on the road for most of the year and need to be connected 24/7 for work. For the most part you can get away with:
An mini-router (I use an Airport Express).
Flakey hotel wifi can be remedied by using a LAN cable to your mobile router, providing a personal wifi spot, ...
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This is NZ we're talking about. It's still lagging with a smaller population in terms of technology up-take and bandwidth capacity.
As such, currently, there are no unlimited data plans in NZ for mobile phones (Orcon has introduced them for broadband internet at home). Why? You can read the whole discussion about what might be required for this to happen ...
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There are several different companies in Japan that rent or sell pre-paid SIM cards and portable Wifi Routers:
mb.softbank.jp
pupuru.com
bmobile.ne.jp
rentafonejapan.com
sallysrental.com
econnectjapan.com
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I don't know the current situation about Wifi in those countries but I am a developer and I've travelled in all of them. I did not have a laptop nor did I do any work but once in a while I did some coding just to keep my brain in shape and learn new things.
I general expect the Wifi to be better in Chile and Costa Rica than in the other countries and again ...
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There is an important distinction to make between the UMTS/3G USB stick, which is the hardware that allows your computer to connect to a base station, and the contract you have with a mobile network provider to allow you to use their infrastructure, embodied by a SIM card that plugs into the USB stick.
You need both, and they need to be compatible, which ...
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Internet options in Spain:
ADSL/Optical Fiber if you have a permanent residence and only want to be connected at home: 30-50 euros/month, 3-50 MBps. The best is Ono, but limited to some big cities. The problem is that most companies have a minimum stay time of 1 year (if you go early you will have to pay a "fine").
Mobile solution (USB or Mobile Phone): ...
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Finally I got a 3 (http://three.co.uk) SIM for 1 pound and unlimited traffic data for 15 pounds.
You can get a 10 pounds - 500Mb plan too.
All of these things as a prepaid plan and working in less than a minute.
You get a ticket with a code to set your SIM card credit and that's all. Take a look at their plans here.
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Not 'prepaid' per se, but Starbucks in Japan now offers free Wi-fi and an English log-in page. I've found many of the FON hotspots to be inaccessible even though I have a FON router at home as many are sponsored by Softbank and hence need to be accessed through a Softbank 3G connection to add the appropriate profile / cookies.
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I'm not aware of any carrier here that offers the kind of service you need. Most of them have an "unlimited" traffic options but after a certain threshold of GBs what happens is that you can still navigate the web but with a MUCH slower speed.
Your best bet is to subscribe for ADSL and then unsubscribe it before leaving but you have to be VERY careful ...
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I've been living in Shenzhen, China, for over a year, here's my experience:
VPN: I believe a safe choice now would be www.julyrush.com. It's the one I've used the most and it works reasonably well.
The most stable protocol is usually Cisco IPSec, since it seems that it's the one with which the Great Firewall has the hardest time blocking, so try to get ...
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You should have no problem in any of the countries you listed. As others have said, places like Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand will have more reliable internet/wife access. But even in Cambodia and Loas, which are less developed, you should have no problem. As long as you are in more heavily touristed areas (and not the rural countryside) you will ...
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I'm not a TrueCrypt expert but I would avoid to give access to personal and important information (like credit card number) to a computer I don't know it is "quite safe".
I wrote "quite safe" because in my opinion and from my experience it is impossible to consider a computer completely safe.
In your case, for example, if I were a malicious internet cafe ...
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There are many, many internet cafes, but most places hardly advertise. They typically run 10-35NTD an hour. Your best bet is asking your hotel/hostel staff for 網咖 (Wangka), or if no one understands you, 電腦咖啡店 (Diannao Kafeidian). You can even just ask people on the street (I've done this many times when I was new to Taiwan... just repeat Wangka until ...
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There is bellen.com, but unfortunately Dutch only. The list of prepaid providers with Internet can be found here. It is in Dutch, but I hope the following translation of the table fields can help:
Aanbieder = Provider
Pakket = Package or Plan
Databundel = Data bundle (amount of Mb you can use for free)
Buitenbundel = what you pay if you go over your ...
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Aha, a site that @Ankur only just showed me earlier this week comes in handy in answering!
The Pay as You Go Sim with Data Wiki's page on the Czech Republic would appear to answer your question.
You have three main choices - O2, Vodafone and TMobile.
It appears... that O2 might be the best option, as it looks like their acceptable use policy is that ...
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I'd expect that no cross GFWOC (Great Fire Wall of China) traffic is 100% secure from interruption.
2 to 3 years ago I was with a friend who had both a Hong Kong and a Chinese 3G USB modem. The Chinese one was vastly cheaper to use. Well up into Guangjhou the HK one still provided Western Internet access, while the Chinese one never did. We were well beyond ...
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There are many to choose from. You'll probably want a prepaid plan from a "discount" provider such as Simyo or Aldi Talk. Here's a comparison.
Typically the prepaid plan includes a pay-as-you-go rate that is very expensive (ca. 24 cents/MB), but you can add a flatrate option which will e.g. cost 9.90 EUR and give you 1GB of highspeed mobile internet within ...
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It's a pain in the butt to get mobile access in Turkey, but you it can be done. Your chances depend on how nice the person you find to sell you the prepaid SIM is, since they'll have to register the IMEI on your mobile phone with them.
Easiest option in Turkey is to buy one of their portable 3G hotspots - they run about US$80 and include the hotspot ...
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I can recomend you to buy a SIM-card from Aldi talk or Fonic
Alditalk: 11 cent/min & sms in Germany, 12 cent/min to EU-mobile, and 29 cent/min to EU-landline. There is also 1500MB high speed data package for only 10 Euro. The signal strength is not the best(E-Plus network) but it's OK
Fonic: 9 cent/min & sms in Germany and EU-landline, 29cent/min ...
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I used Vodafone (they had 3G) and it worked fine in Spain. Once I made it to Andorra, I was roaming and was told what the charges would be. I assume it would be the same had I continued on to France.
The rate was 10 EUR for unlimited Internet which cost something like 3.15 EUR per week. They credited the full 10EUR to your account. Once I hit 20MB/day, it ...
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After having a quick look, I think that
Orange: http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-phones/plans/planDetailPage.jsp?item=prod640006
and O2 (Text & Web tariff): http://www.o2.co.uk/tariffs/payandgo
offer the best deal. Make sure you double check before you buy/top-up though, because these things tend to change really quickly.
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Beitou Public Library, located in Qinshui Park, has public internet terminals. I'm unsure if they're free or not though, but you don't need to be a member.
Randomly, Lodging-world has a query that lets you search for hotels with wifi in Beitou. So if you're going to stay at one of them, then you're fine, but if not you could go along and see if their ...
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