Re: Mobile Broadband at home

Graham J <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Ivor" <ivor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sam Nelson <sam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <1j00pv2.16nqsgkpi2hegN%ivor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ivor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Just thinking if this makes sense or has any obvious pitfalls that I've
missed.

If you can work within whatever bit-cap is offered, I don't see it as a
problem. Running any sort of externally-accessed server at home might be
troublesome.

My download speed is abysmal (distance from exchange etc), my allowance
is 20GB and I'm paying around £15 a month, yet looking at T-Mobile
mobile broadband for example offers PAYG £17 a month, 3GB A DAY
allowance and possibly (?) better speed than I'm getting now and all I
need is a £29 dongle.

Seems reasonable.

is there any reason why I
shouldn't stick one of these babies in the back of my Mac Mini and use
it as a home connection?

Anyone done this or have any thoughts.

I got an O2 dongle last week, and plugged it in to one of these:

http://www.solwise.co.uk/3g-routers-3gwifimrw.htm

and connected to that via ordinary everyday wi-fi. With an O2 mast on
the
hill opposite, I get 7.2Mb/s, I'm told. It certainly gave the impression
that it Just Worked.

Thanks for the info. I get not much more than 1Mb/s sometimes less and a
lot of dropped connections today coupled with lame tech support makes me
wonder if this is a better way. Annoyingly I recently took out another
year's contract but a dongle as a fallback option seems to be a
reasonable idea.

You might find that changing to a professional ISP would improve your ADSL
speed. How far are you from the exchange - along the route that the phone
lines take? For 1Mbit/sec I would expect you to be at least 7 km distant,
so if you're less than that get a good ISP will get BT out to improve
things.

Of course you should do all the things that have been repeated here many
times over ...

Well my ISP was highly rated when I opened the account and is a BT
subsidiary. Whether that is a good or bad thing is debatable.

Ivor
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