Harold's Internet Cyber Café is not just for surfing and sending/reading ones's e-mail, but has a complete offer for the business person wanting to keep up with their office and do some work while on holiday or attending a seminar. We therefore have Microsoft Office available with Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, Adobe Acrobat, and an assortment of graphic programs.
Internet telephony using Skype is offered at no additional charge to most destinations worldwide as long as the call is to a fixed phone.
Clients also have the possibility of downloading files, saving them to USB keys, or even burning them to CD-Rs or DVDs. Colour printing is also available, and we offer a scanning and photocopying service as well as a fax machine. Clients can also choose between the latest versions of Netscape, Safari, and Firefox. On request, you can even get your own free harolds.ch email address!
For those who may be worried that we use Apple Macs rather than Windows PCs, have no fear. We have only very rarely been unable to open a file due to software, but in those cases it is very doubtful that we would have had the software (eg an accounting program) available on a PC either. On the other hand, we cannot open files that have the .exe extension, and even if we had PCs we would have to disallow opening this format as these are executable programs that may install malware on the machine, including viruses.(There is one exception: we can open e-faxes using e-fax's software.) It is understandable that we do not allow clients to install software on our machines.
Clients can either pay per session or become members. There is no set-up fee to become a member, but we require that an initial non-refundable deposit of frs 20 is paid onto the account. Usage price is more than 30% cheaper. Members have the advantage of having their own log-in to the computers without requiring intervention on behalf of the staff. On log-out, their bill is automatically deducted from their account. Accounts with sums under frs 2.– are temporarily blocked until the member adds an amount of his/her choice (min frs 10). On request, members can have a folder set up on the server into which they can save their own personal files. Files therefore remain private. You can compare the prices by clicking here.
Payment can be made in most currencies or by credit card (Visa, Eurocard/Mastercard, American Express, and Diners), so if you have just arrived and do not yet have Swiss Francs, you can surf anyway.
Harold's Internet Cyber Café also caters for those who have brought their laptops with them. One can either connect using our high speed WiFi (802.11n), our Ethernet network, or use one's preferred ISP using either ISDN or an analog modem. However, we take no responsibility for setting up the laptop, and we assume that the client knows how to configure his own machine. Pricing for WiFi or Ethernet is frs 5.- per hour or per session.
If you are worried about not being able to speak French, don’t. All our staff speak English.
.
