Using internet in Portugal

Hi Grenville,

To be able to use the internet your best option is to find somewhere offering Wi-Fi which means "wireless fidelity". Wi-Fi hotspots are places where you can pick up the internet WiFi signal either for free or pay for it. Internet cafes, airports, hotels and some bars have these hotspots. Your laptop instructions should tell you whether it is "WiFi compatible" so that you can use this service.

The other ways to use the internet are via dial up or broadband but you need to be staying somewhere with a telephone line, have the correct cables (either LAN or telephone cable) to connect your laptop to the telephone socket and also have the correct telephone company discs to install it on your computer.

Hope this makes sense.


Linda

Hi Gary,
The wife and myself will be spending several weeks in the Algarve this winter (2008) I will be taking my laptop with me,
Can you please tell me in very plain language as I am not very computer literate how I go about logging on to the Internet, I would like to be able to send email's home and browse the net.
We are staying very near Albufeira.
Any help much appreciated,
Thanks,
Grenville East.