Internet&phone unlimited anywhere world less than $30PM!!!!!!!

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I was just looking at my skype and thinking of recharging my portable phone credit when i found this:
http://www.boingo.com/sales/skype_zones/

It means its now possiable it be in Corsica log on to the capitanerie wi-fi link surf as long as the batteries allow or make skype calls to fix phones!!!all for less than $30 per month!
For internet $20pm s much the lowest monthly rate, and useing macdonalds or hotel conections can be very costly! This way i can have an international passport to good coffee and internet conection and phone!!!

If your in Cannes Ag Mort or Rome Valletta corfu or athens you can find an internet connection for just one price!!!!!

Im going to buy an skype phone(£29) which includes 200mins pc to fix phone calls

Is there a catch???? I cant find one other than to be sure your not way way off the beaten track always!even then there are hotels not to far away--- /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Hear is the shop link for skype phone and 200mins or with another thing anothere 100mins free http://www.voip-interactive.com/products.asp

At last a real benifit for those that are crusing and in Europe!! as well for once! Just the internets worth paying $20 a month for in some ports listed it costs 25 euros for 15mins!!! I will save the whole months abonament in 20mins!!!

It is limited i think it was restricted in the small print to only 1000hours per month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was never on line THAT long!Nor the phone!
 
If only ............"It means its now possiable it be in Corsica log on to the capitanerie wi-fi link surf as long as the batteries allow"

My home port is Calvi, and the captanerie charges 30 euros for 2 hours accses to their wifi output.

Nice idea though!
 
Damm i have calvi 7, rue Colonna d'Istria
Ajaccio, France
+33 4 95 22 31 12
bastia, solerno, camporloro,bonafacio and about 30 others bonafacio is hear seems quite practical Any idea where this could be probably no good for charter boats though
Port de Plaisance - Calvi Marina Port de Calvi
Calvi, France
Tel: +00 33 495650521 Wireless signal

Pity about calvi but it must be a very very small village no hotels or cafes no post office!! As i said if you live away from everything but im sure there must be a small town at least somewhere near calvi???would mean a bike ride but then good coffee
Why not move to Bastia thats the biggest city in Corsica and wonderful it is

Im sure if you went thourgh the index which is slow and user very unfrendly-like macdonalds providing free info but not about its burger dosent help you would find a wi-fi so far all the places ive beenwill go are covered even in Sweden with just 24 links!! not the 500 in France and 300 in Corsica
 
Worth a whirl. But there is often a lot of contention with wifi in marinas etc. Friends who Skype from boats frequently find the call quality is so abysmal they have to resort to more conventional means. So keep the expectations low and with luck you will be pleasantly surprised!
 
Calvi is not a big town, but there are a lot of hotels (2 of which advertise wifi hotspots), shops, banks, people etc!! And a post office! Over 8000 permanent residents, which increases greatly during the season. Not as big as Bastia but nicer in our opinion (not that Bastia isn't nice too!). Anyway, all I can do is tell you how it is here in our experience, which is that apart from the 2 hotel hotspots mentioned, and I have no idea if these hotels charge extra or not, the only other wifi available is via Calvi Capitainerie. As I said previously, they charge €30 for 2 hours and if you don't buy their card you cannot access it. We have many friends who tried during the summer, and in any case those who did buy the card still had trouble as the connection was very unreliable, and if one person was online it didn't seem possible for anyone else to do so at the same time!! Strange, but true. . . .
Anyway, just telling it how it is here in Calvi. . perhaps next year there will be more hotspots and generally it will all be improved.
 
you will have to walk around the port with net stumbler running to find the best place to surf, The capitanerie has its conection through a third party and thats why the company shown will provide you a conection with no extra charge, you have to find the best place to be and in summer perhaps share with others that slow down the conection but after midnight in summers ok

Telephone can be really bad with just a mike and head set work though eyeball chats much more reliable and better quality, BUT if you buy a good skype phone even at peak bandwith use it will work well enough.

For the price a few compromises such as calling /surfing off peak not expecting the signal 100%in your cockpit

oh well what am i going on about no one needs to save the question is rather with is the best mobile/sat phone which is the best to be seen useing

Im perhaps one of the few livaboards that has to be carful with the money and dosent ware designer clothes and look for the place to be seen place to eat rather than the best umm no wonder the port prices have become un payable

In the med im never asked to pay as the capitaneries knows i will leave when ive shopped and taken water as i can aford the day rate anymore
 
Well, when I looked at boingo about a month ago 99% of their 'hotspots' required registration and a seperate tariff.

If it looks too good to be true - it probably is.
 
Most of the places I've been recently have free WiFi either in the marina or if not there at a cafe nearby, and I used Skype to call from my boat free of charge, so I don't see what advantage boing offer over that? Did I miss something?
 
It depends where you are and how you want to phone.Sadly all the people i call though almost all have skype its not running so i have to call their phone number.

With bongo and skype i can call very inexpensivly and when im in a post or town find a wi-fi conection included in the abonament, I agree in town there are enought open connections but not always in as comfortable possition as the boing wi-fi

The extra charge makes me really mad!And it ALL the Swedish hot spots--ALL!!

For France and Italy its quite interesting providing you know where you will be wintering/crusing and check then with planing you arrive in say Calvi or bonafacio wherever and you log on! Being ports the antenas not well possisioned but if you walk around with your net stumbler running you can change places?? and surf in comfort at no extra cost from your own cockpit!!

At 25 euros for 15mins in some ports or as the other post says 30 for two hours you soon recoupe the 20e pm!!

I agree it wont work for me inSweden but in France its nice and Corsica essential plus providing nottomany are useing the connection you can skype with an internet phone and number(30 Euros PA) which has a voice mail box-

OK OK 20 euros PM plus 30 pa is a lot of money for a poor Folkboat sailor indeed but the contract is month by month with Boing and even i can find 30EUROS per year!! for a phone with number!
 
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The extra charge makes me really mad!And it ALL the Swedish hot spots--ALL!!

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I found WiFi was free in most marinas in Sweden - either you were unlucky or I was lucky! At least wi-fi is free in Wasahamnen (Stockholm), Nykoping marina, and Karlskrona. It's also free in Wayne's Coffee, which are everywhere (though I only used their connection in Karlkrona, so can only vouch for that branch). The only marina in Sweden that had paying internet that I found was Kalmar, but I didn't try looking in the town for a free connection.
 
Waynes were charging 240Krone per card which would last a day but umm.
Nykoping marina not only dident have a hot shower (out of order) but charged for their connection!
Now i have my PDA with mini net stumbler and wi-fi finder ill find the free connection that exists but its not the one from the capitanerie I was really angry that i had spent almost a week there useing GPRS only to find when my bluetooth broke on my PDA that i had a wi-fi conection for free!!

Odd that some find the Polish gramer difficult?? And the spelling
 
About Waynes it may vary from branch to branch. But Nykoping, I don't understand, I had no problem connecting without a password. Guess that was mid-August time /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
You may have got another connection? In France i was online drinking coffee with and expensive sandwich, but happy do do so as i had the connection and was a plesent day. To my amazment when i went back with my new wi-fi finder it said first wanadoo secure ch10? then i pressed the find button again the next was Hotel du Paris ch6 open something like that which was next door!

The coffe and sandwiches wernt mush more expensive!!!

I want to go to Nykoping next year as they have an old wooden tender i want and they ought to have contactd the owner by then!!

Since i have my Hobbs wi-fi detector life on lines far easier cost 70 Euros though! But really worth it and this time even the USA price was about $60 not the normal half price--that makes a change.
 
trouville,

You may also like to take a look at

www.voipcheap.co.uk

They are currently offering completely free calls to landlines in most EU countries, USA, Aus, Japan etc. No idea how long it will last!! I use it quite a bit and actually find the signal quality better than SKPE. If you can find a free WiFi access you are in business.

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Voice over Internet Protocol!

The "Economist" published an aricle about 3 months ago forecasting the imminent end of conventional telephony and its replacement by VOIP.

Unwilling to be left out of any nerdist trend, I tried it out for about a month.

I soon returned to using an expensive mobile.

When the LAN and backbone were underutilised the system was adequate, as soon as traffic got heavy it deteriorated, first through asynchronic speech then through strangely distorted transmission to ... nothing. These problems occured for about 50% of the time in the area I was in. Standard wi-fi internet could also be affected but far less so.

Couple that with the relative sparseness of wi-fi access points and the way transfer rates drop off as you get more than 20m away from the access point and I'm afraid the theory is far more attractive than the practice.
In fact at much less than 12 Mpbs, VOIP is impossible - next time you're using a hotspot just check your connection speed.

I'd strongly advise waiting for:-

Better compression alogrithms on the connections
Greater frequency of hotspots
more >125 Mpbs access points.

Meanwhile to those believers I'd agree the end of conventional telephony is near - but not yet!
In fact I'm betting that cellular comms are all set for some big price reductions. Meanwhile I'll carry on using SMS as the most economical means of comms when adrift.
 
It\'s not the poster\'s grammar

but the reader's sense of propriety that's ouraged (or is it just an inadequately nimble mind).

Just keep on posting in your idiosyncratic English - it's far easier to understand than mediaeval Latin and besides getting the meaning is a good mental exercise.
 
Re: Voice over Internet Protocol!

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In fact at much less than 12 Mpbs, VOIP is impossible

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I regularly use Skype over my home .5 mbps line. Quality is usually better than my telephone that shares the same landline.

Contention is the real issue. Our hugely expensive CISCO VOIP office system serving 200 people at several locations is pretty useless when everyone is downloading the latest multi-megabyte corporate missive, at the same time as trying to hold a phone conversation.
 
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