I’ve ploughed through all this stuff online and am none the wiser.

3 seems cheap, yet might be crap?

5gb monthly allowance seems like it might be enough, yet is more expensive than 1gb?

7.2 Mbps seems like a fast enough quoted speed, yet it might be nowhere near this in reality?

I’m intending to use the mobile internet dongle thingy indoors on my PC at home in Aberystwyth. Mobile signal seems pretty darn good right in the centre of town where I live. I’m also planning to use this setup using a fairly reasonable PC, but it dates from 2003.

Is this likely to be some sort of hideous mobile internet car crash in reality?

Depends where you are going to use it. Each provider should have a 3G map. Like this. Choose the one with the best coverage in your area. As if your not covered it wont work.

http://www.vodafone.co.uk/personal/price-plans/network-and-coverage/uk-coverage-map/

According to 3s map they have full-on indoor coverage for Aber. (It’s most probably the same for Vodaphone.) But I’m skeptical as to what this actually works out to in reality! 😉

If you are with someone like Vodafone, you have the right to return the product with 14 days (IIRC), if the quality of the signal/speed is not good enough.

Outside our flat in central London, it was blisteringly fast.

Go inside, and it was 10kb/s on a good day.

Vodafone took back the dongle (went to their local shop), and we agreed it was not fit for purpose.

Depending on what phone you have I’d suggest taking an unlimited data bundle and tethering the phone rather than having a seperate dongle.

Hmmm… yes, but. I don’t have a contract mobile phone 😳

Don’t want one either!

I see. What are you, some kind of technological pygmy?

no_eyed_deer – Member
Hmmm… yes, but. I don’t have a contract mobile phone
Don’t want one either!

I’m with you on that.

No debts, no one sucking money out of my accounts.

Cash is king.

Until technology can handle this, it sucks.

we are a ‘tech’ company, so using the net all day every day, watching vids, spotify, iplayer, and generally pi55ing about ( though we work sometimes, honest! ), and between 9 of us only use ~ 2gb/month.
i personally am streaming radio or whatever pretty much 8 hours/day.

Del – Member
we are a ‘tech’ company, so using the net all day every day, watching vids, spotify, iplayer, and generally pi55ing about ( though we work sometimes, honest! ), and between 9 of us only use ~ 2gb/month.
i personally am streaming radio or whatever pretty much 8 hours/day.

You’re definitely a light user then!

We chomp through around 100 gigs per month, company of 20.