It is not easy to get free or low-cost internet connection while traveling in Germany. Most hotels in North America provide free in-room internet, while their German counterpart do not. Hotels in Germany may have WiFi available, but the cost could be very high. The American style hotel where we are staying in Munich, Holiday Inn, charges 7€ for 60 minutes of connection time. This "low-cost" option allows web browsing only (for the geeks: port 80 and 443 access only). To get more secured access would cost substantially more €.
In the SF Bay area, one just has to walk into a cafe and there is a good chance that free wireless internet would be provided. In Germany, most cafes do not provide such freebies. Instead one has to go to McDonald's or the McCafe (which is usually on the same premise). Their coffee is not bad at all, and beat Starbucks in both price and quality. In order to get one hour of free internet access at McDonald's, a local mobile phone that can accept SMS messages is required, however. One types in the mobile phone number on the T-Mobile connection page, and a password to allow access to the WiFi network in the restaurant will be sent in a SMS message. Typing this password on the connection page will give one-hour of free access.
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