Wireless coverage in Europe with CF-18

Been a while!!!
I have an 18 and 28 with wifi, & one has a built in sprint card. I will be in Europe for a couple of months and I have NO idea what I need over there to access the internet. Ideas, suggestions?
Thanks man!!!

 

GPRS, EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA are the possibilities for wwan in europe, but look at the frequencies of ur card http://www.umtsworld.com/technology/frequencies.htm ! U can find Devices here i.e. ebay.de/UMTS-CARDS . U should look for "ohne Vertrag" and "ohne Simlock" or "Simlock frei" to take the provider that u want. Or go to the big Electronic-discounts like "Mediamarkt" or "Saturn" or so and buy the USB-Stick or PCMCIA-Card there.
If u will be in Germany for example u can get a really flatrate only from the Provider BASE (Motherconcern is E+) but fixed for 24 months and only not for HSDPA. All other providers call it "flatrate", but they have a limit in the volume (5GB or so) otherwise they have HSDPA (7.2MB/s) and a better coverage then BASE.
If u plan to use a WLAN with ur US-Card inside the Toughbook, u should know, that we have channel 1-13, not like u, channel 1-11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels . U can find open wlan-networks on sites like wefi.com or so.

 

I can MOST DEF SAY STAY AWAY from CDMA in Europe... stick with GSM

 

Thanks for all that info!
The umts site & info is REALLY good!

Now another question...
Know of any good GPS programs for Europe?
Here in the states, I use ALK for my company.

Thanks!

 

ALK means COPILOT? Something like this is Garmin Mobile PC (GMPC), which i prefer. Maps are available at openmaps.eu for free or u can buy such stuff also on every electronic market. All other things are the same as u know and use. Any other proposals?

 

rockstarbus, I was going to say, since you are familiar with ALK CoPilot North America, just buy European map data. However, I no longer see such option on ALK.com . I even checked their UK website, but there is no reference to the PC software at all. Too bad .

As onirakkiss suggests, consider buying Garmin Mobile PC. However, this is a fairly new product. The North American version released only in April, and the European version is not yet available. You could buy the North American version, and then add European maps to it.

There are two versions of Garmin Mobile PC: one comes with Garmin USB GPS20x receiver, and the other is just a software-only product. To use Garmin's own European maps, you will need the GPS20x version. To add 3rd party (Garmin compatible) map data to Garmin Mobile PC you may use even the software-only version. All this stuff is a bit overcomplicated, and since the product is so new, even the Garmin tech support is not yet familiar with it. Best to get answers (if you have any) straight from other Garmin Mobile PC users.

There are other laptop GPS software programs popular in Europe, such as Sygic Drive and Mapfactor PC Navigator (or Directions PC Navigator).

They are all quite good.