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[Horizon1]

Hello, I'm going to Ecuador soon to teach and travel. I am debating of whether to bring my small 10.1" Asus netbook. It's slow but I want to keep in touch with family a couple times per week.

I'd rather not take it.

Question: are the Internet Cafes in Ecuador? If so, how common? If so, only in the larger cities? Or in smaller town also?

Thanks to anyone that can answer.

[HLJHLJ]

There's lots of internet cafes around and many hostels provide internet access as well.

[expatella_girl]

We spent a month traveling Ecuador in November. Internet cafes galore everywhere we went.

No worries.

Of course there is always the language problem. You might want to use an English language website, but the browser and all of the computer settings are in Spanish. I managed to muddle my way through.

Also keyboard differences. The keyboards I met did not have @ as a key shift. It took some other weird combination of keys to produce the @, which I now can't remember. But it was strange.

You'll get the hang of it.


--P.S. I did also find some censorship of certain websites and subjects in Quito, common enough websites/topics in the US but for some reason Quito internet cafe computers would not connect, got the 404 message. However it did not happen in other cities.

[misteradventure]

I would bring the netbook. There are ample opportunities to borrow wi-fi from higher-end hotels and cafes. Some ask only you buy a coffee, etc.

Saving teaching materials to a thumbdrive gets old, quick.

-m