Hey there GRRR travelers, welcome back! I am in Kolkata, India.
One thing I find as a travel blogger is that I'm really attached to my internet.
I'm always on social media and
because I need to upload things, and I'm scheduled to upload them,
I kind of need internet badly.
So when I arrived into Kolkata
and realized that my hotel didn't have internet
anywhere in the vicinity
and there were no internet cafes that I could run to,
it was like this whole first world problem.
But I recently got an Indian SIM card.
This means that I can finally use the internet.
But even though I've got an Indian Sim and a data plan,
my whole conundrum was how to get it on my laptop
and what if all the other hotels and guesthouses that I go to don't have wifi either.
And I freaked out for a moment.
So today I thought I'd go ahead and talk to you about cellphone hotspots aka mobile internet
and USB internet sticks.
I have an iPhone 5 C.
The great thing about my iPhone is that it allows me to use my phone as a hotspot.
There are many smartphones out there that kind of allow that capability.
You'll have to check with your settings but my settings,
This is my mobile hotspot if I want to turn it on.
WiFi and bluetooth are off. I need to turn them on.
So I turn them on.
Now my mobile hotspot is activated.
and if I want to go ahead and hook in my laptop then I will have to use this WiFi password
right here.
On my laptop I will look for the name of my iphone, which is conveniently labeled iPhone
3.
I'm not sure why there's three because this is my only one.
If you notice here and the top it says personal hotspot, one connection.
That means I'm ready to surfy the internet.
So lets pop out the browser window… and there we go.
There we go. That's the internet.
The 3G speed is pretty darned fast actually.
But that's how you hook up your personal hotspot.
If you don't have a phone, that allows you hotspot capabilities then I would definitely
get a mobile hotspot.
I think Huawei is a popular brand
and the reason I know this is because a friend of mine has it
and he's constantly traveling and uses it all the time.
He swears by it.
The third option is to have an Unlocked USB Internet stick .
If you buy a midi or usb internet stick, one big thing to note
is that it's unlocked because that means you can use it in other countries.
In past years, India sold these internet sticks which you could use to plug in to surf the
web,
on your laptop but the thing was that it was only locked onto India's service providers.
Whatever sim card you get, I always recommend you save the outer shell.
These day sit comes in three different sizes and you've got regular, mini and smaller than
that you've got the nano.
My iPhone fits the nano but my USB internet stick uses a regular sized.
The way you use a USB internet stick is that you place your sim card in this little slot
here.
Mine pops open an application which you can use to search for a signal on this sim.
Once it's connected, it lets me know it's connected…
and that I can go ahead and surf the web.
Most internet sticks come with that app already included on it.
There.
It's looking , looking…
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And until then, may the GRRR be with you.