Originally Posted by SFO voyageur
If you have a laptop with wireless you don't need an internet cafe. Most McDonalds have free wifi and you can go there and order a cup of coffee and work away on your laptop as long as you want. The speed, etc. is pretty fast too.
We've been here for the past week now (arrived on Fri, leaving this coming Saturday) and I've made due with dial-up.
We're staying in an apartment right off Rue Montorgueil at the opposite end from Les Halles. From the apartment I can see six wireless networks, and _every single one_ has WEP enabled. ...? I drove from Chicago to California a few weeks ago and could reliably find an open AP in every po-dunk town along the way (which was pleasantly surprising).
I did find both of the XS Arena shops (and noted the next door KFC and bar/pub!) along Blvd de Sebastopol but didn't stop in. I can deal with French keyboards, but can't get the VPN access I need except on my laptop.