How to Prepare a “Bug Out” Laptop Kit

Can you imagine, away from your computer for a long time? No internet, no email, no jokes, no games to play? Many people have found themselves in this position when the unexpected happens. In the event of a natural disaster, terrorist attack or a pandemic of bird flu, have access to your computer could be a lifesaver. If you are one of the many people that their personal and financial records are stored on your computer without saving and no way to have the emergency access?

Because we are so wired these days, laptop backup should be a substantial part of your survival gear will be no less than three days supply of food and water extra. You can use your laptop or buy an existing be used specifically for use in emergencies.

Now you can buy one of the laptops are made for extreme conditions, but the cost several thousand and is probably not necessary. Here you will find a number of good online used laptops for a few hundred dollars. It should not be the last and best, he has to work only when you need it. to do a good basic laptop with a CD-ROM and a good battery.

The items you want to add, include a wireless card to access the Internet. While your access to the Internet may be down, you may be able to find a hot spot for access. like most laptops have an integrated modem, if you also add a modem card. Connectors on the phone so you can access the Internet from your mobile phone. You need internet access on your phone plan to add. Modem and network cables, you should be able to plug and play. Power cable and AC adapter. A 12-volt adapter and a converter. You can direct your laptop from 12 volt or run it through a converter to charge the battery. A replacement battery. See all laptop accessories you deem necessary, such as external mouse or even a solar charger. With this configuration, you should be able to use the Internet or via modem or wireless LAN. You can also use a small external hard drive or flash drive. A portable printer is good, but not essential. All necessary software should be loaded with a backup or emergency boot disk. Remember, your favorites for free.

You have to decide which files you want to take with you. You must back up your main computer of your personal and financial records. Write this on a CD. You may have an additional CD of your household, complete with digital photos. If your house is destroyed, you have a criminal content. View photos scan family that you have a backup copy of them. Remember, a copy of all your passwords to online sites and accounts have access. Address Book contacts and e-mail is also important. Any other document or important it would be hard to replace and must be saved for recovery from any type of emergency is essential. Consider the scan copies of your will, birth certificate, marriage certificate, titles and deeds. Since this information came as a private security software to encrypt in the case in prying eyes.

You can survive a reference library on CD information that will help you to recover and could be a disaster. Backwoods Home Magazine offers back issues on CD, including a specific survival. Mother Earth News has also re-issues on CD. Both will give you a variety of survival and how information. You can also foreign-language CDs, educational CD for the appropriate age of your children, games, if you can not live without it and so time passes. Reference books can encyclopedias, your local yellow pages, maps, cookbooks, and all that will help you.

If you have a broadband Internet access at home, you get a list of numbers in order to select for the whole country or to consider an AOL account or any other national provider. If you do not have access to the Internet in a way that you should be able to access otherwise.

Now the idea of this configuration to “bug” with her. Puzzles emergency. save all they want in a good laptop bag with easy access. For added protection, you can opt for a waterproof case (although in the case of flooding) or a hard edge, as if a single aluminum can, the photographers are using to protect their equipment. Other family members should know where you keep it so if you are not home and they have to tap them to leave it for you.

Before you pack everything to test it. Make sure the links are working and it starts without problems. Try it once a month and make sure the batteries are still loaded. Try to access the Internet via remote access and a wireless access point. The work of the bugs before you have to use them in an emergency.

After an error in the backup computer for you when the unexpected happens and help you back on the road to recovery.

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