How do I use an internet cafe?
 

Going to China and would like to get my home e-mail and send messages but I don't know how to use an internet cafe. I've heard that if I don't have the "right" home service provider I won't be able to do this. Can someone please "teach" me how to use an internet cafe. Thank you for your help.

You should get an e-mail address which you can access from the internet. Usually you can't access your work e-mail from the web, so you'll have to subscribe to a public provider if you don't already have one. A couple of popular sites are www.hotmail.com or www.yahoo.com. When you go to an internet cafe, you just have to get to the site, log on and then you can send and receive mail just like at home. Hope this helps.

An internet cafe is where you pay them to use their computer to web-surf. You will need to have a web-based email service. This means that you will read your email on the web, like reading any other web-page. Whereas at home, you download the email from your ISP server to your own machine. At an internet-cafe you should have an email acct with a ISP like yahoo... <BR> <BR>[email protected] (for example)...in the internet cafe, you go to Yahoo.co home, then access your mail through their web-site. <BR> <BR>Remember, the difference is you are not downloading your mail, you are merely reading it as a web-page. You can reply, or create new email as well. <BR> <BR>Michael From New York

Anyone can go to any computer, log onto the Internet, and go to www.thatweb.com, type in their user name and password, and check e-mail from almost any account. It works just like regular e-mail checking on your private account - you can receive, send, reply, forward, send attachments, etc. Unless you delete the e-mails, they will still be ready to download when you get back to your regular computer. <BR> <BR>Barb, please try it now before your trip. I have introduced this service to many of my friends & family (both here and in the US), and so far, everyone's account has worked. <BR> <BR>Only ONE person needed more information than her e-mail address and password. If you need more information, the site will tell you what you need, and then you can ask your home service provider (should be something like your SMTP server - they will be able to tell you). <BR> <BR>Do try it and let me know if it works! Good luck! <BR> <BR>P.S. And no, I don't have anything to do with the site - it's just a GREAT way to be able to check my work e-mail on the road!! :)

Maybe I should post this as a new topic...but...should anyone have fears of hacking type mischief when using computers in China? <BR> <BR>My concern is that when accessing my email, or possibly viewing credit card and other business account info, that my passwords could be secretly grabbed. I know there is "spy software" that records EVERY keystroke on a computer in which it is installed, but (hopefully) assume that it's just too laborious a project for a would-be thief to study the "dailies" on an internet cafe or hotel business center rent-a-puter. <BR> <BR>However, now that China is becoming Hacker Central...wondering out loud if inputting any passwords is dangerous on public computers...any thoughts from you all?

I am pretty careful when I use email, especially on a shared computer. I can't imagine accessing my banking or credit card numbers in that situation. As far as picking up email from home I think its a non-issue. I don't think I'd ever talk about anything confidential through hotmail.

Thanks everyone-- <BR> <BR>I"ve signed up with yahoo and was able to send a message from my office computer to my home computer--something I couldn't do in the past--so I guess it works!! THANKS again

To pick up your home email from a public computer try: <BR>mail2web.com <BR> <BR>Prompts you for your user name and password and downloads your mail from home.