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Originally Posted by bopdude
Does anyone use Vodafone's data card or this or similar for internet on the move ? They have recently cut their prices and upped the cap to 3 gig p/m. I'm thinking of getting this or similar as my new job will involve me being away from home and being the sad git I am, I don't think I could face no connection with my cyber worlds :p
Any thoughts or alternatives, has to be mobile. i.e no dial up etc
EDIT: looking at the 3G coverage from their own page doesn't look good, how can companies market the toys if they can't give the service ? |
Watch out data can get expensive (i tried the new mobile internet bundle) but due to a problem with their billing system it charged it instead of coming out the bundle (although hopefully that little problem is all sorted now)
Only popped the laptop on for all of 5 minutes to check a webpage for a mate and forgot about windows update. ended up costing £9 (this was on a phone with the 120mb mobile internet pack on)
I actually now have that modem you linked to with 3gb /month usage on t-mobile
If your in HSDPA coverage the speeds can be excellent 400kps - 1mbit/s throughput is usually achievable and I've managed to hit 1.5mbit/s before.
Also the modem will fallback to 3G if theres no HSDPA and if theres no 3G it will fallback to GPRS (which although is very slow its better than nothing)
T-mobile were doing the modem free on the 12month contract during august also their FUP is slightly different it just states that if you go over 3gb they reserve the right to cap your speed and ask you to upgrade package, and if you constantly go way over and ignore their warnings they can chuck you off.
vodafones one states that they reserve the right to charge you for data over 3gb and at around £2 per MB I'd be a bit worried about going over.