Not so easy
I am going overseas shortly and some of the hotels that I have booked at have "broadband internet", I'm not sure if that means wi-fi or not.
If not is there a way to connect the ipad to a broadband plug in the wall as you would a laptop?
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Regards,
Mike
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I just came back from Germany. Berlin was our main destination, although we drove quite a bit around the country. WE FOUND NO WIFI CONNECTION ANYWHERE WE WENT, except for the hotel (Hilton in Berlin). However, the cost of using WiFi at the Hilton was quite high. Thankfully, we had our MacBook, and used Boingo to connect ($56 for the month, with connections anywhere in the world where they have a partner). We found this to be the cheapest way to go.
However, some of Boingo partners are NOT SETUP to work with iPads (like our Hilton connection). In that case, you would need a full fledge computer.
Also, I have not used a wireless router at a hotel for a while. But, when I did in the past, it never worked. It seems that hotels' do this on purpose so that you cannot use more than one computer on the same connection should you create a LAN. I am not sure if this is the case any longer.