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From: Dwight Yachuk (no email)
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 11:33:35 EDT
Hi Rick,
The longest I've been away (out to sea) has been about 2 months. While away I always sign off all chat groups (they can live without me for a while :)
During that time I would use an internet cafe to send/receive email. I use their machine. I use a seperate eddress while travelling.
While I conduct electronic banking here at home, I never do so when travelling. All my bills go either to direct withdrawal or to my MasterCard. Sometimes I prepay my MasterCard more than what I estimate my bill might be (hey, they give me a month free use of their money, I can't begrudge them a month of mine once in a while).
For cash, I use a local ATM machine. I have gone into a local branch of a Canadian bank in some locations to conduct business. At other times I've gone into a local bank to conduct business (exchange money, withdraw money against Mastercard/Visa).
So far this has handled all my communications and financial requirements.
I don't consider myself a liveaboard, more of a sailor/cruiser. While I spend inordinate amounts of time here at work on the computer ( and chatting with friends as I'm never very busy), I find that when out on the boat, I really don't want anything to do with electronic systems, including computers. Yes I use a GPS and an autopilot but that's about it. (I like paper charts).
So while this works for me, others like to have the latest and greatest with respect to computers and associated communication and navigation devices. As long as it works for them.
Good luck,
Dwight
PS It was quite a good flame fest. Richard Goodwin sure had others going :)
-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:]On Behalf Of Richard Bradshaw
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:12 AM
To:
Subject: RE: [world-cruising] Online connectivity while cruising
Dwight,
I'll have a check over there but it may be too late. I did a
wholesale delete when mailboxes exceeded 1 mb (and there were several
of those) knowing that I would never get to the posts. (Didn't even
have time to read them while I was away either; too many. If i start
looking, I'm lost because I _will_ keep reading and I have no time to
do all that.) So, if it was "huge" it might well be long gone. And,
if "debate" is a another word for "flame fest" I think I'll pass.
Don't like to add fuel to a fire usually.
When you used an Internet cafe, did you use their machine or yours?
Did you use them to contact or check on financial matters that
included providing your account numbers and passwords? How did you
ensure that there were no keystroke loggers and the like attached? I
just had an instance here last night where I was unable to access my
own wireless network after coming back. My wife had the same
experience with a wired but wireless enabled tower. I immediately
thought that someone had hacked through a longer than normal alpha
numeric security code and changed the network code. Turned out this
morning that I just needed to unplug the cable modem, network hub,
and the Extreme Airport wireless unit, let it clear for a few
seconds, and then plug them back in one at a time. The wireless
network came back. Paranoid? I guess so but I had just come back off
the road and then all the stuff started to hit the fan. How do you
handle that in an Internet cafe or elsewhere outside your "normal,
controllable" location?
Rick
>Richard,
>
>You might do well to pose your question on:
>
>There is/was a huge debate going on there all last week. I think
>they would be very interested in your story of logging onto someone
>elses network :)
>
>In my experience and hearing from others there aren't many wifi
>hotspots in the carribean. My friend Bill came across just one in a
>marina (I forget where) and it turned out to be one of the nearby
>boats.
>
>I use internet cafe's wherever I sail and have not had any problems yet.
>
>dwight yachuk
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