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Best Travel Wireless Routers
September 28, 2011 | 
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Another innovation in the wireless internet industry is the travel wireless routers. With these devices, mobile professionals or people on-the-go can access the internet anytime.
We have listed here some of the best and portable travel wireless routers available in the market.
NetGear 54 Mbps Cable/DSL Wireless Travel Router
The NetGear 54Mbps wireless travel router comes in a sleek and portable design ideal for travelers who want to be connected all the time. It is very small, like the size of a card only. This router can be used with any device whether it is on 802.11b or 802.11g technology. It has a built-in WEP encryption which can be upgraded to WPA-PSK. You can even share your internet access to anyone who has a Wi-Fi enabled device.
Linksys WTR54GS Wireless-G Travel Router
The Linksys WRT54GS wireless travel router comes with a built-in access point and an Ethernet port used to connect to a wired network or to other computers. For a secured connection, this device has an encryption capability. This has its own power supply and an antenna. Included in the package is a case for easy safekeeping. It is easy to configure with its user friendly web utility.
D-Link Wireless Travel Router
The D-Link Wireless Travel Router is one of the best wireless travel routers which can also be used as an access point. The size is relatively small which can fit right in the pocket of your laptop bag. It can be used to share internet access with other Ethernet users. It is also capable of connecting to any Wi-Fi spots without additional hardware or software. This travel wireless router is plug & play for easy configuration.
Apple Airport Express Base Station
This wireless travel router made by Apple is ideal for Mac users but is also compatible with Windows OS. It is very powerful that it can share internet access to 10 Wi-Fi capable devices at the same time. The router can also be used as a wireless to extend the range of your wireless network.
For Mac OSX users, the Bonjour technology can be used to detect other devices within the network which makes it easy to share any files to other computers.
Belkin Wireless G Travel Router
This wireless travel router manufactured by Belkin is so small that it can fit in your pocket. Sharing your Internet connection to other users is also possible with this router. For your security, this device supports WPA and WEP encryption. It can also function as an access point and an adapter.
Asus Wireless Pocket 4-Port Router Model WL530G
Asus, one of the leading manufacturers of PC components, have also released its own wireless travel router, the Asus Wireless Pocket 4 Port Router. This model enables internet sharing either wirelessly or wired. A NAT firewall secures the user from any internet threats. The WEP and WPA encryption further secure connection. It has an automatic switching capability from access point to router mode so it does away with any reconfiguring.
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Time Travel – Undo Your Past and See Your Future
When I was a kid my dad told me that there is really a time machine. He said that it is in a very secret place because the government doesn’t want it to be used. He added that when somebody will be caught using it, the police will get them. I know my dad was just making a story to stop my imagination about time travel. And yes, as a kid I was really afraid of the police. They use it to scare me whenever I act like a brat.
But that story didn’t stop me to imagine and wonder what if I can travel. When I was kid, I often dream about going to the future. In the future, I will be able to see how and what I’ve become and then I will go back and tell myself about what to do in the present so that my future will happen or not if it’s not what I want. In the contrary, I guess the thought of time travel when I was young was just about the adventure I could get out of it.
When I started my teenage years, the thought of travelling through time changed. During those years, I desperately wanted to turn back the time to change my mistakes. I thought about the decisions I made, actions I’ve done and words that I had spoken.
For example; during a math quiz bee when I failed to win the first prize because I didn’t follow my intuition of how to solve the tie-breaking problem; for eagerly answering the question of my teacher but then my answer was wrong, for helping my pregnant teacher with her heavy stuffs that caused me to fall in a canal and be seen by my schoolmates and my crush, when I failed to be a part of the Top 10 in class because my attention was already focused to my boyfriend (I started young..I know! But I thought I was mature); and the list goes on.
I wished to change those things. I thought I could have a better life if those things didn’t happen.
But I was wrong.
When I was still 17, I thought about going to the past and changing it but then as I was imagining I’ve noticed that each event in my life in the past has something to do to my present or other people’s present.
The things that occurred in my past molded my present. The things that I have done in the past which I once regret did something to somebody’s life.
I failed the math quiz bee before but somebody won and celebrated. I gave a wrong answer to my teacher but somebody was given the chance to answer it and received a point. I fell in the canal for helping my pregnant teacher but if I didn’t do it and fell for her maybe she’ll be the one who will fell and have a miscarriage. I failed to be in the top 10 but somebody else made it. I had a boyfriend very young but I learned something about responsibility and knowing your limitations.
As of these days when I start to imagine about time travel, I only get tired. I can’t do anything about my past and I don’t want to know my future because knowing it might cause me to alter it in my attempt to live “normally” knowing what will happen next.
The best thing to do is to live life in a good way so that your future will be good. Stop acting stupid, stop doing that things that you know is dangerous and value time. Time is a precious gift and our freedom to choose what we want to do in our life is our responsibility.
Travel Insurance and Alcohol
Whilst we are by no means suggesting that you abstain from alcohol whilst on holiday it’s important to release the implications that heavy drinking will have on your holiday insurance policy. Take the example of Theo Paget, a 20-year old male who suffered a spinal fracture when plummeting 50 feet from a balcony in Marmaris, Turkey. It was a miracle that Theo survived a fall from such a large height and whilst the tabloids have dubbed him ‘rubber man’ one thing that he won’t bounce back from so lightly is his astronomical hospital bill. You see after Theo admitted that he was on a cocktail of drugs and booze at the time of the fall his travel insurance policy refused to pay the price of his hospital admission. And why would they? We do a lot of things drunk that we certainly wouldn’t do with a sane mind and if under the influence of alcohol we believe that we can successfully jump 50 feet from a balcony, it is unfair to make our holiday insurance company pay out when we soberly face the consequences in a foreign hospital bed.
What are even more alarming are the sozzled skiers that admitted to being drunk on the slopes. A whopping 14% of people surveyed by a British holiday insurance provider admitted that they had indeed taken to the slopes drunk. Whilst we’re all for having a warming cup of mulled wine we prefer to enjoy our beverages apres ski and with the French medical care being so costly who can blame us? Whilst the EHIC card has a reciprocal health care agreement with many people, France is one of the few countries which this doesn’t extend too. If you invalid your travel insurance policy by drinking over the reasonable limit, then you should expect to pay around