internet cafes

[Phillip Allen]

I'm going to try to head out in the next day or two... Key West. I want to know how to keep in touch and have never used an internet cafe and don't know how to find one...I'll also keep up with my finances via the internet...?

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

With the advent of cell phones that have internet access and WiFi hotspots, internet cafe's have kinda fallen out of style. If you have a laptop your better of getting a WiFi card and just go to any WiFi hotspot and log on. Thats what I do. In a pinch most Starbucks have WiFi. When I was in Telluride the entire town was WiFi, you could sit on a bench in the park and get a signal.

[High C]

Originally posted by Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson ):
...When I was in Telluride the entire town was WiFi, you could sit on a bench in the park and get a signal.There's another town now, New Orleans. It's already up in the French Quarter and Downtown, and is expected to be completed throughout the city within a year.

[Phillip Allen]

Joe...I have a desk-top and don't even have a flat screen...fashion has never been something I chased. I would have a lap-top if they would cut the cost by somewhat more than half. They are hard to use and have a poor monitor. In any event I don't have such things...I'm going to work where I can find work to my advantage but I won't make more than I would here if the weather was summer-like. Maybe a public library?

[Meerkat]

Decent laptops are now hovering around $600 and an LCD screen is better than a CRT now.

[Phillip Allen]

Well, moot point now. I'm going to find work...I don't have any ready cash to buy such a thing...if I did I would't need to race toward the work.

[Hwyl]

Looks like you are headed for the Iguana Shack

http://www.world66.com/northamerica/unitedstates/florida/keywest/internetcafes good luck, stay in touch, call me if you need help fending off those women.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

OK well then lets help ya out
Try this

http://goflorida.about.com/cs/gettingtoflorida/a/aa110100a_2.htm

http://www.world66.com/northamerica/unitedstates/florida/keywest/internetcafes

[Phillip Allen]

Thanks guys...I gotta check those places out...I'll send ya some sand

[Meerkat]

If you have any money at all ($50), I would suggest getting a flash drive. $50 will buy you at least 512mb of storage, and I can supply you with a small email program that will fit on it and leave you with TONS of room for emails and etc. It lets you carry your online life with you, as it were. Since it's already set up, it will save you time/connect fees at the internet cafe too.

Even $25 will buy you at least 256mb, which is more than enough!

[RichKrough]

Most every town has a library and most every library has free internet access. When I do my long bicycle tours that is how I keep in touch

[George.]

What a bunch of first-world Pollyannas... If it were not for Internet cafes, I would have never posted from Rio last week...

You latest-tech toys have not yet reached the farthest reaches, nor the shallowest pockets. Thank God for Internet cafes, a late 20th-century feature, in the arrogant, exclusive, early 21st-century world.

[crawdaddyjim50]

Phil I used Joe's coffee shop just off of Duval next to the movie theatre when I was down working hurricane repair for my company. He has a good cup and the computers are protected pretty well. I still deleted all my cookies and such but then I am a little paranoid about public computers. Oh by the way be prepared for sticker shock on the food bill. My avg. lunch came to almost $15 without tip. And a lot of the servers are now from eastern europe for some odd reason.