Got an o2 one

They work by finding the connections in range and grabbing a slight bit off each

So if both your next door neighbours have good broadband, you'll get good range

If you live near a hotel or a net cafe, or live in a city, you'll hit hotspots which make the net free, but will not allow you to download even though it's free

There in, lies varying speeds it loads up a web page

If there's only one net connection around you for it to connect to, it will grab the minimum, and you'll get a page loading up at 1-7k a second (say a page needs 100k minimum to load up)

Mainly, from my experience, they're good, work well with connections around them, work better after about 4pm because people are generally going onlined

Pretty naff during the day, unless you're near hotspots of public interest (travelodges, cafes, anything with a netword etc etc)

Posted By: pants on June 5th 2010 at 23:37:45

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Does anyone have any experience of mobile internet using a dongle? (n/m) (General Chat) - Klobo04, Jun 5, 23:23:25
- I've got a 3G one as they are the only ones who cover my area of Scarborough (General Chat) - Klobo04, Jun 5, 23:49:51
  - Are you in your first month of having it? (General Chat) - pants, Jun 5, 23:59:14
    - Nah I have had it for 7 months (General Chat) - Klobo04, Jun 6, 00:04:52
      - You got anything on automatic update? windows updates? (General Chat) - pants, Jun 6, 00:09:48
        
        I dont have automatic updates on (General Chat) - Klobo04, Jun 6, 00:13:59
        
        bet it's a really simple explanation (General Chat) - pants, Jun 6, 00:19:13
        
        I know i have had endless phone calls from them (General Chat) - Klobo04, Jun 6, 00:22:16
        
        Mate of mine left them on contract, and had to cos (General Chat) - pants, Jun 6, 00:40:50
        
        I was happy to renew my phone contract with Vodafone (General Chat) - Klobo04, Jun 6, 00:49:25
        
        yeah, me too (General Chat) - pants, Jun 6, 00:54:37
        
        I prefer Vodafone (General Chat) - Klobo04, Jun 6, 00:58:07
- Got an o2 one (General Chat) - pants, Jun 5, 23:37:45
- Yes - and it's crap. I had a Vodafone contract, but in reality mobile broadband speed are (General Chat) - Higher Wrather, Jun 5, 23:37:04
  - I'd feel terrible if I was on a mobile broadband contract. especially as dongles are only (General Chat) - pants, Jun 5, 23:42:29

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