3g dongles again

[ASB]

Cheers. Will try and pick one up at some point.

[FarmerPalmer]

What make and model is the router? I could do with one at home. Ideal of course would be one that can take a pcmcia card so I can just bang the data card in to it.

http://www.linksysbycisco.com/UK/en/support/WRT54G3G

It has a PCMCIA slot but it won't take my latest 7.2Mbps data card, it only uses the HUAWEI Mobile Connect E620, which maxes out at 1.8Mbps.

There is a later V2 model, don't know what that uses, but I think they are now discontinued so you may need to look at secondary market (ebay for example).

[ASB]

I bought a Vodafone Router as backup because my ADSL was so flaky and HSDPA here is solid. I was about to tell my telco to shove it and they sorted it out and its been fine ever since - but I kept the router it still comes in handy when we get the odd outage.

I have 1 3Gb/£15/month contract with vodafone for use at client co and drop that sim into the router as and when I need to.

What make and model is the router? I could do with one at home. Ideal of course would be one that can take a pcmcia card so I can just bang the data card in to it.

[ASB]

You can get one with a 15Gb cap for around £15-£20, it's the price you pay for exceeding this you need to look out for as o2 are charging 20p per Mb.

http://www.compare3gmobilebroadband.co.uk/

I use voda 3g only. It's £15 no cap (corporate contract from employer). I generally find usage is about 2-3gb. Fair usage is defined, I think, as 5gb but all they do in whinge a bit. I did get a query from them last week when I had about 3gb usage in one day. If you constantly exceed it I guess they start to throttle. I get about 2 mbit down and 1 mbit up in TA9.

3 are now doing a 15gb contract for either 15 or 20 per month. But their out of contract rates make Shylock seem generous.

[gingerjedi]

You can get one with a 15Gb cap for around £15-£20, it's the price you pay for exceeding this you need to look out for as o2 are charging 20p per Mb.

http://www.compare3gmobilebroadband.co.uk/

[dinker]

Had a chat with a sales guy from T-mobile the other day as I would really like to get away from BT. "What`s your download cap?" I asked, expecting it to be around 50GB a month..... "1GB" he said.

[pzz76077]

Maps of 3g coverage and Ofcom trying to suppress them...


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07...ap_suppressed/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07...coverage_maps/

and the maps...

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/ifi/licensing/classes/broadband/cellular/3g/maps/3gmaps/coverage_maps.pdf

All mobile cos will let you look at their real-time coverage (IE at this actual moment and a bit of delay) Heres Vodafones: http://maps.vodafone.co.uk/coveragev...b/default.aspx

Paper-based ones are always going to be out of date.

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[cojak]

Have you seen this article from El Reg?

Maps of 3g coverage and Ofcom trying to suppress them...


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07...ap_suppressed/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07...coverage_maps/

and the maps...

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radiocomms/ifi/licensing/classes/broadband/cellular/3g/maps/3gmaps/coverage_maps.pdf

[FarmerPalmer]

I bought a Vodafone Router as backup because my ADSL was so flaky and HSDPA here is solid. I was about to tell my telco to shove it and they sorted it out and its been fine ever since - but I kept the router it still comes in handy when we get the odd outage.

I have 1 3Gb/£15/month contract with vodafone for use at client co and drop that sim into the router as and when I need to.

[pzz76077]

I've not bothered with these as coverage was patchy at best but I hear it's much better now, has anyone here ditched their ADSL line in favour of a dongle?

I can only get fixed 2meg ADSL as my line is crap, to add insult to injury the few ISP's that offer fixed rate charge this as premium service so it's much more expensive than adaptive.

Try one of the ones that you can get from 3. Works great for me all over Europe.


PZZ

[Fred Bloggs]

When I looked at this a few months ago, data was prohibitively expensive. We use around 12 to 15Gb a month bandwidth and this is really pricey on 3G. Add to that the fact that we can't even get a decent normal mobile phone signal at home, so there's no chance that we can get a reliable 3G connection anytime soon. I dropped the idea for now in favour of staying with ADSL.

[gingerjedi]

I've not bothered with these as coverage was patchy at best but I hear it's much better now, has anyone here ditched their ADSL line in favour of a dongle?

I can only get fixed 2meg ADSL as my line is crap, to add insult to injury the few ISP's that offer fixed rate charge this as premium service so it's much more expensive than adaptive.