CHAPTER 6: Traveling with Your Notebook62Packing your notebook• Remove all peripheral devices and cables. Remember topack those you will need while traveling.• Pack your notebook securely into a briefcase orhand-carried luggage, and keep it separate fromtoiletries, liquids, and food. Do not pack it in checkedluggage.• Keep your notebook stable during travel. Secure it toprevent it from sliding around in overhead bins and cartrunks.Traveling by air• Do not check your notebook as luggage.• Charge the battery in case airport security asks you tostart your notebook.• Have your notebook hand-inspected or sent throughthe X-ray scanner, but never carry it through the metaldetector.• Turn off you notebook for takeoff and landing.• Turn off all wireless devices while in the aircraft.Dial-up modem• Take a telephone cord to connect the modem totelephone jacks. If you are traveling internationally, taketelephone jack adapters or an acoustic handset coupler.• Take a telephone line protector.• Take a telephone line tester to check for unsafe lines,especially if you are traveling internationally.• Take remote access information with you so you canconnect to your ISP while outside of your usual callingarea. A list of country dialing codes may be especiallyuseful if you are traveling internationally.
