On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Anton Aylward
Same belief here : it works perfectly within the laboratory, but not in the train in Europe :(
What does work on the train? Perhaps your cell phone? Perhaps you have a data service with your cell phone and can 'tether' to that.
Typically, the cellular service on a train comes and goes - especially if you're on a high speed train (+/-300km/h). This is also dependent on mobile provider... in Germany, T-Mobile seems to have better coverage than O2 for example. When cellular is intermittent internet is close to impossible. Some trains have WiFi on board, but it's expensive. Based on personal experience, a Chromebook would be a paperweight on a train in Europe unless you happened to be on a train with WiFi (not all have it) and were willing to pay the high data rates for such WiFi.
Or perhaps you might live in one of the Google'd cities where there is wifi everywhere.
There are places in Europe where you can get free WiFi while mobile... such as the rest stations on the German and Austrian Autobahn... or McDonalds (most have WiFi)... or coffee shops (the ones that actually serve coffee, not the Amsterdam coffee shops). Oddly enough, I find it easier to find WiFi while travelling in Africa than while travelling in Europe. C. -- openSUSE 13.1 x86_64, KDE 4.12 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org