Re: Mobile Internet


"David" <david.park@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Jim Kewley" <JKewley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dunno how many here are internet nerds, like me. In my attempts to
maintain a web connection on our travels with the van, I bought a 3
mobile PAYG dongle internet connection thingy. Big mistake.

3 mobile appears to offer the cheapest way of getting on the web whilst
travelling, consequently I bought one of their dongles. Sadly 3 mobile
merely serves to emphasise the truth of ' you get what you pay for '.
Despite the apparent value in it's bandwidth offering the truth is most
of the time the connection is so slow and unreliable, with frequent
dropped lines, that anybody would be hard pressed to take advantage of
the bandwidth available.

Finally, after my umpteenth dropped/slow connection, I gave up with 3 and
decided to try an O2 version of a similar PAYG dongle set up. O2 is
slightly more expensive than 3 but so far I've found it's connections to
be consistently far better and so much more reliable than 3 mobile.

Sent from the Caravan Club, Wirral Country Park site, via my O2 PAYG
connection. O2 is retaining a steady 3G connection at 3.6 gigs, checking
the 3 mobile dongle it seems to be struggling to find a GPRS connection
at 56 mbs.

HTH for anybody interested.
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Well I am interested in an internet connection whilst away and would be
interested in knowing costs.

So far I have been to McDonalds and connected or local libraries for free
connections with my lap top
I just wish there was a reliable way to find Free wi-fi places, the Google
Search sites given are very lacking in locating them.
Would have thought free wi-fi would spread, if so will the system you
mention not be needed?


Here's a list that may be of some help
http://www.btopenzone.com/find/roaming/index.jsp

Rgds

Andy R


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