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Hallo,

Does anyone use these, or have ideas of the best deals. I want to get one for my dad, as it`s easier than getting `normal` boradband in, plus he will only use it occasionaly for Skype etc.

I saw 3`s Pay as you go deal, but seems expensive for a little 1Gb limit. Plus £1 a meg if you go over!

Do the other networks in the UK have anything similar?

Rgds

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Yup.. MASSIVE charges. Really, you are paying WAY over the odds for the dongle convenience. I think 3 is the cheapest!



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i have a friend who has the o2 version, @£20 per month. he seems to have excellent coverage, but the limit is 3gig a month, then 20p per mag after that, so if 3 is £1 per meg after the cap it`s much more expensive :(

but imo it`s only worthwhile if your rambling around with your laptop all the time, otherwise normal broadband is miles better.

Vodaphone Dongle BB is £2.50 per GB over limit , with a 3GB monthly allowance!! Bwahha ha aha ! What planet are they on?? (:¦



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Just a word of warning, a guy I do work for has got the 3 one, borrowed it when my broadband went down and the dongle doesn`t work on vista. May have been fixed by now but that was only a couple of months ago

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I was using the black "3" one in cornwall on my vista laptop at the start of May- worked ok fo me.
PAYG, saved me going to an internet cafe, just cost a £10 topup.

sister in law has one as bt wanted nearly 200 pounds to put a telephone line in with board band, does the job, 15 notes a month 3gb download limit 12 month contact a few months back, though do hammer you if you go over the limit. A few things to look at are, there are black spots where the dongle will switch to gprs rather than the faster broadband 3g service , if looking at a vodafone one they have a map showing slow connection areas. Am sure the other ones are the same but the vodafone has a usage monitor which I quite like. Dont get me wrong a dedicated land line would be better, but I remember a couple of years ago I was on a 1gb a month limit, did me fine. Not bad speeda and connection considering its using the mobile network., vast improvement over the early cards.

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Few guys at work here use them (no wireless on client site). Two have 3 ones and one has a T-Mobile one, for one person they seem fine as long as you are not uploading/downloading massive files shouldn`t be a problem. Pages load fairly quickly to.