Re: Mobile broadband

On Aug 25, 2:08 pm, Marjorie <dontusethisaddr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Anne Burgess wrote:
We have been camping recently and in order to keep up with
emails and
umra I took a mobile b/b dongle with me.  When I logged on I
found
that the dongle hitched a ride with the wireless service
offered by
the camp site. I thought little of this at first until I saw a
notice
in the site office about this service for which they charged
£4 per
hour (better rates for longer periods). I gathered that to use
the
service you needed to pay up front and would then be given a
password
to enable you to access the service. I got it for free. How
was that?
Mike Ruddock

Probably because although your laptop found and recognised the
camp site's (phenomenally overpriced) wireless network, it
sensibly did not actually log into it, but instead did what a
dongle does best and picked your e-mails out of the aether.

I've just been on holiday too (3), and like you I took a dongle
with me (T-mobile, being the only one with a
pay-as-you-go-per-day/week/month rather than pay-per-quantity of
bytes downloaded). In spite of the coverage maps and postcode
listings of all the mobile b/b providers telling me that there
was no chance of coverage where I was, I was able to access my
e-mail and other web sites seamlessly, albeit at a sometime
frustratingly slow connection speed.

(3) Not camping. I share Usha's views on the dubious joys of
camping. My absolute bottom line is a proper bathroom, with hot
water, under the same roof as my bed.

Ah but maybe Usha is converted now that she's tried it?
When she was saying how blissful it was being there, in that
"what-can-possibly-go-wrong?" tone of voice, and then the closing theme
tune started, it was obvious that it was not going to be bliss for long,
but I think this may have more to do with the arrival of the Snells in a
massive motorhome than with the lack of baths etc.

I wanno OP that the Snells park their camper on top of Alans tent.

And/or that the tent will be destroyed/flooded, and that Usha will
"reluctantly" have to stay in the Snell's camper.

Or that the camper will fall over a cliff (Robert having failed to
secure the handbrake) and the Snells will be invited test the 4-man
capability of Alan's tent, with hilarious consequences.

Yup, think I've covered all the possibilities there.
.

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