Roaming email
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A question mainly for UK-based folks: What technique/hardware/software do you use to get access to your (work) email when you're out of the office? Are those little red mobile PCMCIA cards any good? :cool: Expensive? What about Blackberries? :confused: How do you do it? Any advice gratefully received! Thanks, S
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A question mainly for UK-based folks: What technique/hardware/software do you use to get access to your (work) email when you're out of the office? Are those little red mobile PCMCIA cards any good? :cool: Expensive? What about Blackberries? :confused: How do you do it? Any advice gratefully received! Thanks, S
I haven't used one of those PCMCIA cards, but my laptop has bluetooth so I have used my mobile phone to dial up to the net and retreive e-mail that way (through OWA, I found it to be faster than Outlook). Nowadays if you are in a 3G area you can connect at broadband speeds, compared to the 9kbps I get through my phone. In times of emergency I have retreieved e-mail on my phone directly, but it is slow and more than anything the tiny size of phone makes it impossibly hard to use. I imagine a Blackberry would have the same problem?
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A question mainly for UK-based folks: What technique/hardware/software do you use to get access to your (work) email when you're out of the office? Are those little red mobile PCMCIA cards any good? :cool: Expensive? What about Blackberries? :confused: How do you do it? Any advice gratefully received! Thanks, S
I just borrow a PC and use a web based interface. But when I'm out of the office, I'm as likely to be out of the continent as out of town. So perhaps I'm not who you were asking. I'll shut up now... Iain.
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I just borrow a PC and use a web based interface. But when I'm out of the office, I'm as likely to be out of the continent as out of town. So perhaps I'm not who you were asking. I'll shut up now... Iain.
I use gmail, which is excellent, but the problem is getting a mobile web connection without the incredible WiFi prices of hotels, restaurants etc. etc. Thanks, S
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I use gmail, which is excellent, but the problem is getting a mobile web connection without the incredible WiFi prices of hotels, restaurants etc. etc. Thanks, S
But the price of borrowing a networked PC at the factory I'm visiting is *very* low! The days of having PCs unable to get on the internet is almost gone. And the world can just wait a few hours, dammit! I did found the last two hotels I stayed in Japan were Free, and ~£2/day for broadband internet. The last hotel I stayed in in the UK with internet, was ~£20/day. I'd rather spend the money at the bar... Iain.