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I live near Kaisers on Warschauer Straße, which closes on Saturday 11:30pm and opens on Monday 8am. Otherwise it's always open. Spätis are 24/7 and some have ba

I live near Kaisers on Warschauer Straße, which closes on Saturday 11:30pm and opens on Monday 8am. Otherwise it's always open. Spätis are 24/7 and some have basic groceries in addition to booze. If I really want to, I can go to a 24/7 Real in Ostbahnhof. I don't remember the last time I couldn't pay with credit card in a grocery store. It still happens elsewhere and annoys the crap out of me. It's also super annoying that many require PIN or signature instead of the contactless payment method which is faster than cash. Mobile internet is truly shit. Not just expensive, but coverage and bandwidth are pathetic. When I was in Taipei, I don't think the "LTE" icon on my phone ever went away (including the subway). Getting internet hooked up in a new apartment is always a complete disaster. In theory it should be sufficient to hook up the router they sent you. But at least in my (3) cases they always had to send a technician and I waited for ages.

realityking 10y ago
Hah, I live right next to Ostbahnhof. Unfortunately the REWE is not quite 24/7 - it closes between midnight and 6am. I love it. :D
- passiveincomelg 10y ago
  Me getting the name and the opening hours wrong shows how often I need to buy groceries on Sunday. :)
- kayoone 10y ago
  i kind of love/hate it because i only go there on sundays when i need some stuff and of course a lot of other people have the same problem and so it's usually super crowded to the point that you have to wait in line to actually get into the store.
kayoone 10y ago
Which mobile ISP are you using ? Telekom has LTE pretty much everywhere outside and i frequently get >50Mbps when doing a speedtest around the city, all reception is usually strong. Vodafone should also be decent, but anything based on O2/Eplus can be shitty (but cheaper). Not saying mobile internet is great, imo it's too expensive to get a decent amount of mobile data and speed, but it's not shit. At home, if you get cable it should be set up in a couple of days, DSL can take weeks though.
- passiveincomelg 10y ago
  I've switched from O2 to Congstar (D1/Telekom) in 2013. Just to find out that I barely had any signal in my flat in Prenzlauer Berg (where O2 worked fine, at least for calls). Overall D1 is much better than O2. I have to try doing speedtests, but gut feeling when e.g. searching for stuff in Google Maps is that it is much slower than what I had in Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong or major US cities. If Berlin wants to be all high tech and startuppy, they have to match that. Oh and if you take the train out of Berlin, hoping to get some work done... don't bother trying.
  - kayoone 10y ago
    Currently sitting in my apartment on the couch and get 27/12Mbps with a ping of 33ms on Telekom LTE, that should be enough for anything you can do on a mobile device. Not sure what other major cities are getting and i don't doubt the average could be higher, but it's not that bad. Congstar is also a lower cost ISP, so even if its D1, it's not the same quality of service. For example it's limited to 20Mbps in most cases vs Telekom which goes up to 300Mbps in the center of Berlin.
    - passiveincomelg 10y ago
      Guess I'll have to live with it or get Telekom proper. Which is very unlikely. I avoid these long term lock-in contracts like the plague.

realityking 10y ago

Hah, I live right next to Ostbahnhof. Unfortunately the REWE is not quite 24/7 - it closes between midnight and 6am. I love it. :D

passiveincomelg 10y ago
Me getting the name and the opening hours wrong shows how often I need to buy groceries on Sunday. :)
kayoone 10y ago
i kind of love/hate it because i only go there on sundays when i need some stuff and of course a lot of other people have the same problem and so it's usually super crowded to the point that you have to wait in line to actually get into the store.

kayoone 10y ago

Which mobile ISP are you using ? Telekom has LTE pretty much everywhere outside and i frequently get >50Mbps when doing a speedtest around the city, all reception is usually strong. Vodafone should also be decent, but anything based on O2/Eplus can be shitty (but cheaper). Not saying mobile internet is great, imo it's too expensive to get a decent amount of mobile data and speed, but it's not shit. At home, if you get cable it should be set up in a couple of days, DSL can take weeks though.

passiveincomelg 10y ago
I've switched from O2 to Congstar (D1/Telekom) in 2013. Just to find out that I barely had any signal in my flat in Prenzlauer Berg (where O2 worked fine, at least for calls). Overall D1 is much better than O2. I have to try doing speedtests, but gut feeling when e.g. searching for stuff in Google Maps is that it is much slower than what I had in Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong or major US cities. If Berlin wants to be all high tech and startuppy, they have to match that. Oh and if you take the train out of Berlin, hoping to get some work done... don't bother trying.
- kayoone 10y ago
  Currently sitting in my apartment on the couch and get 27/12Mbps with a ping of 33ms on Telekom LTE, that should be enough for anything you can do on a mobile device. Not sure what other major cities are getting and i don't doubt the average could be higher, but it's not that bad. Congstar is also a lower cost ISP, so even if its D1, it's not the same quality of service. For example it's limited to 20Mbps in most cases vs Telekom which goes up to 300Mbps in the center of Berlin.
  - passiveincomelg 10y ago
    Guess I'll have to live with it or get Telekom proper. Which is very unlikely. I avoid these long term lock-in contracts like the plague.