Choosing a safe cyber cafe to use

Choose as carefully as possible. If it’s an automated café make sure you can access things like USB ports and your preferred websites. There’s usually something posted on the walls about that. Or simply take a wander around and become that dodgy person looking at what everyone else is up to. If you see usb drives sticking out of PC’s, then they probably work.

If the intenet café is run by a human, then ask questions. Can I use a usb drive? Can I use gmail/yahoo, my blog site? etc,. And, do you have Anti virus protection? With that settled, are there other travellers in there doing the same thing you want to do? Or is the place full of dodgy people typing from lists, and or girls modeling in front of old men on web cams. If either is the case, I would advise finding another place to blog from.

Lastly when it comes to finding the best café to write your travel blog from timing can be important. In some parts of the world electricity is rationed. Or there are black outs. Ask if they have a generator and or perhaps more importantly if they have fuel. Also if it works and will they switch it on!
Bandwidth (internet speed) is often dominated by the amount of people in the café, if you are uploading photos choose a time when there are less travellers in the café. Early morning is usually good.

Some tips once inside an internet cafe:

If you have a bag, put it between your legs. It’s easy to become distracted and lost in blogging, that someone can pick through it or remove it.
Pick a computer with a partition on both sides to prevent the pervert next to you peeking at your screen.
If someone is staring at your screen, stare right back at them between the eyes until they look away. If they do it again, loudly (not shouting) tell them to stop looking at your screen (this usually works). If they do it again. Shut up shop, ask to me moved, or leave.
If there are two annoying tourists on either side of you talking away, tell them to please be quiet and that you are trying to concentrate. If they continue, move and make a point in saying why. That usually shuts them up too.
Avoid sitting next to people on Skype or cafés filled with them. It’s noisy, distracting and they are using a lot of bandwidth.

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