im there for a week. the chalet dont have wrieless 🙁
can i buy a wireless payg dongle?

you’re going to chamonix and you’re bothered about wifi!
internet cafe.

i need to use my laptop

be loads of coffee shop/cafe that have free wifi I’d bet

the mucky’d’s in town has free wifi. next to the train station.

big mac and emails

but can i buy a dongle so i can use it from the apartment?

i can use my dongle abroad so a PAYG would work (not that cheap though if you are likely to use it alot)

i wanna buy a french one or something

a quick google…………

can i buy one on the ferry?

jedi in “not quite as cool as we all thought” shocker!

cool??? i am shite with tech stuff

tech != cool

Tony, most of the UK mobile companies will provide a one off use 3G dongle that will work abroad. As an example, T-mobile will sell you a dongle for £40 and then you need to get a european booster for say ten quid (assuming you don’t want to go over a 50Mb bandwidth limit). That’s just an example.

Does that help?

edit: Note that that is probably not the best deal, I bet with a bit of searching you could do a lot better than that.

im going sunday at stoopid oclock. planning? me? 🙁

Page Stoner – he da man on garlic smelling, frog leg tasting wifi!

Or ask your mobile operator nicely.

Aah right, nip into a high street shop tomorrow then. They’ll lynch you silly but may be able to give you something straight away.

Do you have a 3G enabled mobile phone? You could tether your laptop to it. Most android phones do this easily, you’d just need to get your mobile phone provider to make it work abroad, might cost you though…..

im coaching tomorrow so no time 🙁
i can use my blackberry attched to my laptop???

Yeah, but you need to make sure your blackberry will work with 3G abroad, and you also need to check you can use your blackberry as a modem in the Uk before you leave. It’s not simple with blackberries I’m afraid. You need the Blackberry manager installed on your laptop.

Umm hang on…
http://www.bbgeeks.com/blackberry-guides/the-idiots-guide-to-using-your-blackberry-as-a-modem-88140/

That’s assuming you have a compatible blackberry.

Have a look here

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/mobile-phone-use-when-in-franceitaly

If you are on Vodafone you should be able to get 25mb per day.

Have a good time you lucky lucky begger!

How far are you away from town? When we were in Verbier earlier this year we were in pretty much the highest part of town which is a long way from the centre and we could still pick up ahem…free wireless access points in town.

we’re in the town center. last year i couldnt get anything

o2 do a cap at 40 quid so i think i can use that connected to my laptop?

A few years ago our guide (nasty) Nick from MBMB used to get free internet from the library, a public service apparently.

You should be able to teather through your blackberry.

My laptop uses my iPhone personal hotspot to connect so it should be possible quite easily

o2 do a cap at 40 quid

on 3 this means you get charged normal extortionate roaming rate, and at 40 quid, they cut you off, and send you a text message saying “you have used 40 quid, would you like us to unlock the next 40 quid”

the rate doesnt change, it is to prevent accidental use of roaming, and the associated thousand pound bills.

thats on 3 at least. Check it.