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gmmour · 22-06-2007, 01:29

Hi there!
Basically you do need a cellphone that can be connected to your computer and function as a modem. So try to find the cheapest phone that does that, probably all phones will do that.
If you want 3G speeds (300K) you have to buy a 3G phone. Cheapest one will cost you some 120 Euro (Samsung Z150 is a very good deal for a 3G phone). http://www.e-cosmote.gr/cosmote/esho...ategoryId=null

Markopoulo and Porto Rafti (and whole of the Athens Metropolitan Area) is covered with 3G by WIND which offers the above mentioned service. The same for the city of Chania in Crete. You can find their 3G coverage on their site www.wind.com.gr under "Coverage".

3,49 is a flat rate for data and you won't pay anything more provided that you always use the gwap.b-online.gr access point and proxy servers on your laptop's WAP settings. You'll pay for any minutes you talk on your phone, but if you use the above mentioned (Wind plus non-stop) offer, you will only be charged 3,49 Euro per month for any data usage...

Now if you buy a mobile phone you will probably also get a connection cable and a CD-ROM with the appropriate programs to connect your phone to your laptop and go online.

As far as fixed lines are concerned now, you can always use these either with ADSL (if the houses where you go do have ADSL which is a long-term service so you can't activate it just for yourself if the owners of the house don't want it because it requires a one year contract, although it actually costs a mere 10 Euro per month for 24 Mbps and takes about a month to activate so you have to see into that before you come to Greece) or you can use them for dialup connections with speeds up to 56K (that's ooooold and slooooow but always works fine for email and a little occasional browsing) paying something like 2 eurocents per minute using any of the "Free" dialup services. For example you can use "Tellas Free internet", using 8015005000 as your dialup number, and the word "tellas" as the username and the password. www.free-internet.gr

Now if you use a mobile phone with a WIND SIM card (prepaid or postpaid) and the WIND PLUS NON-STOP option, you will get unlimited surfing for one month with 3,49 flat rate. The speeds will be about 64K on 2G network (nationwide) or up to 300K on the 3G network (your places of interest are covered) or even up to 3,6 Mbps if you have an HSDPA-enabled 3G mobile phone (which are quite expensive)... Note though, that the WIND PLUS non-stop servers actually pose a 1MB size limit per file you download while surfing on the flat-rate tariff! So this tariff is best suited for email, chat and web browsing but not for downloading large files and large attachments (larger than 1MB)...

Opera Mini is a java web browser that can be installed on any mobile phone that supports java applications and with that you can surf the internet on your mobile. It's quite useful when you're out and about without any access to a computer and want to surf the web or check some web-based email on the go.

Besides that, if you live close to someone who is stupid enough to have their home Wifi connection unlocked (quite usual nowadays) you can always "steal" some of their high-speed bandwidth and you can always surf on public WiFi hotspots at sea-ports, airports, hotels and cafes (like Starbucks). And in emergencies, you can use any fixed line for dialup!

So bring your laptop with you. Buy an inexpensive phone that can connect to your laptop and function as a GPRS (or even better as a 3G) modem. Get a WIND prepaid SIM from any tobacco kiosk in Greece, pop it in to your new mobile, connect the mobile to your laptop through the provided cable and software, do the appropriate settings for WIND PLUS (APN access point and proxy servers as mentioned above), activate the WIND PLUS NON-STOP offer by sending the sms to the number I mentioned above, and you're ready to go!
And if for any reason this doesn't work you can always use the fixed line at the house you're staying to go online with dialup (2 eurocenta per minute and the outdated speed of 56Kbps) or go to a place where a public WiFi hotspot is available -provided that your laptop has a wifi card- and go online from there!

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gmmour (Offline) Member Advanced Member Posts: 92 Join Date: 03 Oct 2006 Country:	22-06-2007, 01:29 Hi there! Basically you do need a cellphone that can be connected to your computer and function as a modem. So try to find the cheapest phone that does that, probably all phones will do that. If you want 3G speeds (300K) you have to buy a 3G phone. Cheapest one will cost you some 120 Euro (Samsung Z150 is a very good deal for a 3G phone). http://www.e-cosmote.gr/cosmote/esho...ategoryId=null Markopoulo and Porto Rafti (and whole of the Athens Metropolitan Area) is covered with 3G by WIND which offers the above mentioned service. The same for the city of Chania in Crete. You can find their 3G coverage on their site www.wind.com.gr under "Coverage". 3,49 is a flat rate for data and you won't pay anything more provided that you always use the gwap.b-online.gr access point and proxy servers on your laptop's WAP settings. You'll pay for any minutes you talk on your phone, but if you use the above mentioned (Wind plus non-stop) offer, you will only be charged 3,49 Euro per month for any data usage... Now if you buy a mobile phone you will probably also get a connection cable and a CD-ROM with the appropriate programs to connect your phone to your laptop and go online. As far as fixed lines are concerned now, you can always use these either with ADSL (if the houses where you go do have ADSL which is a long-term service so you can't activate it just for yourself if the owners of the house don't want it because it requires a one year contract, although it actually costs a mere 10 Euro per month for 24 Mbps and takes about a month to activate so you have to see into that before you come to Greece) or you can use them for dialup connections with speeds up to 56K (that's ooooold and slooooow but always works fine for email and a little occasional browsing) paying something like 2 eurocents per minute using any of the "Free" dialup services. For example you can use "Tellas Free internet", using 8015005000 as your dialup number, and the word "tellas" as the username and the password. www.free-internet.gr Now if you use a mobile phone with a WIND SIM card (prepaid or postpaid) and the WIND PLUS NON-STOP option, you will get unlimited surfing for one month with 3,49 flat rate. The speeds will be about 64K on 2G network (nationwide) or up to 300K on the 3G network (your places of interest are covered) or even up to 3,6 Mbps if you have an HSDPA-enabled 3G mobile phone (which are quite expensive)... Note though, that the WIND PLUS non-stop servers actually pose a 1MB size limit per file you download while surfing on the flat-rate tariff! So this tariff is best suited for email, chat and web browsing but not for downloading large files and large attachments (larger than 1MB)... Opera Mini is a java web browser that can be installed on any mobile phone that supports java applications and with that you can surf the internet on your mobile. It's quite useful when you're out and about without any access to a computer and want to surf the web or check some web-based email on the go. Besides that, if you live close to someone who is stupid enough to have their home Wifi connection unlocked (quite usual nowadays) you can always "steal" some of their high-speed bandwidth and you can always surf on public WiFi hotspots at sea-ports, airports, hotels and cafes (like Starbucks). And in emergencies, you can use any fixed line for dialup! So bring your laptop with you. Buy an inexpensive phone that can connect to your laptop and function as a GPRS (or even better as a 3G) modem. Get a WIND prepaid SIM from any tobacco kiosk in Greece, pop it in to your new mobile, connect the mobile to your laptop through the provided cable and software, do the appropriate settings for WIND PLUS (APN access point and proxy servers as mentioned above), activate the WIND PLUS NON-STOP offer by sending the sms to the number I mentioned above, and you're ready to go! And if for any reason this doesn't work you can always use the fixed line at the house you're staying to go online with dialup (2 eurocenta per minute and the outdated speed of 56Kbps) or go to a place where a public WiFi hotspot is available -provided that your laptop has a wifi card- and go online from there!