RobCarden

vodafone are doing

£15.00 upto7.2Mbps 3GB a month 12 months contract

is that pretty good? its only for my notebook, no downloading - got the desktop for that. this is more for forums/emails/youtube at lunchtimes.....

thoughts? what is everybody else on?

Rab

I am on PAYG from Three. £10 for 1Gb, £15 for 3Gb, £25 for 7Gb.. Top ups last a month.

Dunno about speed, but it's just as fast at home. I use it constantly when on the ship, and have never used more than 3Gb, and thats after d/l ALOT of porn

vinnyvangough

Vodaphone use's 3G to access dont it? No good for me here, dont get 3G for miles.

JLStretton

they use 3g or the fastest signal that it can so if no 3g about it will switch to edge or gprs

RobCarden

any views on if the above is about the best deal around? cheers

Jim Galbally

what phone do you have, you can probably use your phone as a modem instead and save yourself a second lot of line rental

RobCarden

long story... notebook has bluetooth built in... dell d420. but now its on xp it doesn't recognise the in built toshiba bluetooth 'bit'... all the drivers i cxan find seem to only work with vista rather than xp.... so i thought if i ve got to have a bluetooth dongle hanging out the back to pair to my phone i might as well have a usb modem instead.

i have a nokia e90 communicator for work....500meg a month limit.

was just thinking for £15 quid the usb modem would be easier, maybe quicker and less worry about going over the data limit....

maybe i ll try a bluetooth dongle in it with the phone first and see what its like.

majorly gutted the inbuilt bluetooth doesn't want to work. any thoughts on that jim? i know thats sort of up your street?

_SpeedX_

iTrader: (1)

any of this 3g mobile broadband is naff, the speeds you get if you can even get a signal are extremely poor.

Jim Galbally

the E90 will work perfect for this, it's HSDPA anyway! plug it in with the USB cable (bluetooth is limited speed anyway) fire up nokia PC suite, click the "connect to internet" button and you're away. 500mb is a lot for just the occasional browse

bluetooth driver are always a bit of a pain to find, can you not find them on the manufacturer's website? what model laptop is it, i'll have a look. it can DEFFO be fixed, just might take a bit of googling

Daveyboy

the bluetooth driver you're looking for is on dell support pages. I know, ive downloaded them this morning

Thrush

iTrader: (1)

I've no trouble getting signal, even at home, away from the cities in the rural, and speed wise it loads PF faster using my phone's 3G than using my wifi!

Jim Galbally

Thrush, you live in greater london, ofcourse you get a fookin 3G signal

Thrush

iTrader: (1)

I don't live in Greater London, no.... And I do get 3G reception, thats what I said

Jim Galbally

youre about 2 minutes off the M25, thats the country's most major metropolitan area

Thrush

iTrader: (1)

No I'm not You don't listen I've moved, I'm in Essex

tonyk

I have this with T-mobile and its ok for me. It will never replace a dedicated home broadband connection as its just to slow, even on HSPDA. You then have monthly limits to watch or you can be billed big.

Rab

Three mobile broandband is high speed data network. So, I get d/l speeds of 2mbps.

I even get signal at sea a few miles from land!!! In my cabin!



And it's PAYG, so no line rental. Just buy a top up, convert it to BB data useage. I top up with say £100, then onnly convert what I need when I need it. Works well enough for me.

Jasesapphy

iTrader: (1)

i use 3 through company 3 gig a month £15.00

RobCarden

cheers jim
its a dell d420 on xp. think the bluetooth bit inside is toshiba

Adrian

I use 3 too when I am out and about, have no issues and use £10 when i need it (PAYT) lasts 30days and get 1gb.

Rob, the XP drivers will be available for the D420 on the Dell website. I know as I have used them from there. If I was at work I could mail them to you, or upload them to my webspace so you could download them.

dave_si

I use 3, £15 a month with 3gb, nice and simple.

Ginge !

where in essex, do you have gas, do you have the chance to have cable ?

anywhere south of luton is reconised these days

im with jim on this one,,, loughton is essex,,,,, JUST as its a fucking big county

Stu.H

I'm on t-mobile and pay their 7.50 a month for unlimited data. Have also used mobiles/pda's as modems and had no problems.

Thrush

iTrader: (1)

Harlow. Chelmsford postcode, NOT Greater London. I didn't say ~I didn't get 4G, infact I said I DID get 3G, and the point of saying I did was someone said it was slow. Yeah it ain't 2meg ADSL speed, but it's not particulary slow for an OTA connection. It's faster than my wifi connection!