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FAO Maldwyn

If you notice in the posting I went PAYG!!! But of course it will only work where there is a signal.
 
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maldwyn said:
if you have just got it(3 dongle) cancel the contract asap,you will find that it wont work on 99% of sites in the UK.
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It's info like this that makes this site so worthwhile! Thanks mate! Does anyone know if Vodafone coverage is as good as their maps claim in England & Wales? It's the best network for the south west of Scotland but are there dark corners of the UK where it's no good? Knowing me, those are places I'll want to go!:rolleyes:
 
Works in my garden and dining room....dead in the rest of the house. Vodafone blame it on the Cuillins!!
 
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hi
just bought a 3 payg dongle starter kit from carphone whorehouse £97.50 for 12 gig of usage spread over 12 months, that works out quite cheap.

live long and prosper:D:)
 
bevo said:
hi
just bought a 3 payg dongle starter kit from carphone whorehouse £97.50 for 12 gig of usage spread over 12 months, that works out quite cheap.

live long and prosper:D:)
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Hi Bevo,what is the coverage like where you live and more importantly nationally nothing worse than buying something and then finding it's unsuitable and having to persuade shops to take things back,some shops aren't to fussy as long as they make a sale won't warn you of the pitfalls.Andy:)
 
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hi messenger 2.5
we live in the northwest reception ok here they tell me at carfone that 3 has a 90% coverage over the uk, but time will tell.

let the force be with you;):)
 
I've just seen in the Vodafone catalogue, their are now selling a PAYG dongle that has no time limit on the top ups, at least thats how I read it! £15 for 1GB and as I'm a light user I going to jump ship, I think!
 
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I've a "3" dongle on contract £5 per month 1G download. Works fine even when in France in the summer although a lot slower.

Stewart
 
We have just settled on an O2 pay-as-you-go dongle. Reason - we have 50 days to try it out and if we don't like it to take it back for a full refund.

ALSO you can buy 'airtime' in increments of a day/week/month so as our useage in the MH will be sporadic it felt like a good idea. When we want to use it we just top it up according to how long we are away for.

Not even taken it out of a box yet so not sure of it in terms of 'useability and coverage' yet :confused:
 
any updates on these dongles as i am looking into them, looks as if we are gona take the van for an extended break end of march time so need one to keep in touch .
 
I took out a contract with 3, it hasn't let me down yet, very easy and simple to setup.

Tom
 
mandrake said:
any updates on these dongles as i am looking into them, looks as if we are gona take the van for an extended break end of march time so need one to keep in touch .
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hi mandrake, have had a t mobile web an walk for a year now ,i pay 20 pounds a month no other charges gives me 3 gig a month never had a prob.its not as fast as home b,band but i would not go back to it.use it on the home computer when were here just unplug an stick it in the laptop when were away.i think the 3 gig is down to 15 a month now . chose t mobile cause at the time the dongle was free. same network as my mobile never really have reception issues apart from the usual in extreme places
 
I have a vodaphone one which works ok. No idea what it costs as my partner pays the bill and I never asked him.
 
Living on Skye where mobile phone reception on any network is patchy, I use a Vodafone Pay as you Go dongle on my laptop rather than a contract.
Seems OK if you stick to the software with it (Mobile Connect Lite).
If you download and install the full package from Vodafone I find, at least with my HP G70-111EM, it disables the internal wireless.
 
We chose the O2 PAYG offering in the end, after lots of research. The reason is that we concluded our useage was going to be sporadic as it is only for use when off in the van. As that can be anything from a couple of days, to weeks at a time, none of the contracts seemed to fit. I hate the idea of having a contract that we are spending out on to just sit in the cupboard between trips. With O2 you can buy as little as a day at a time.

Do you also know about BT Fon? If you have a BT Broadband service then you can sign up to Fon for free. If you have their BT Homehub you are then expected to allow open access to part of your service (a small proportion of your link is programmed for open access but the remainder remains secure and private to you). As a BT Fon user you are then entitled to X amount of free WIFI time via other Fon users BBand lines or the BT Openzone places (often at motorway services etc). On the BT Fon web site is a very detailed map of where other BTFon users are, so you can identify the road before you drive by trying to pick up their signal :D:D

If, like us, you live in a relatively quiet place off the beaten track the chances are your service won't be used that often........... but you can bet we'll be using theirs ;)

Overall I think this is a splendid idea from BT, when you consider the propensity for us to all have BBand/WIFI systems in our houses these days. It starts to look like a decent 'open network' more or less anywhere you go......... and surely that is what the internet is all about :)
 
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Hiya,

I have a contract Vodaphone dongle and have used it for about a year now. Never yet failed to get a signal of some description, and usually quite a fast one. I'm a long distance driver covering the whole country and find Vodaphone to give the best phone coverage. Unfortunately the dongle is quite slow at home or I would bin my broadband home connection,(Orange). When the blue light, 3G, shows the Vodaphone is just as quick as my home connection.

Hope this is some help,
Derek.
 
ive been looking whats on offer, and 3 seems a good bet as coverage is a lot better nowadays.
 
I used a T Mobile Web and Walk for my Wifi for a couple of years in UK, then went touring Europe and carried on using it throughout, OH dear!!:(:mad: The bill was criminal to say the least. Now I rely on a free wifi connection, when I can get it. The BT Fon looks a good idea, will look into that, I am already on BT Broadband.

Happy Camping:)
 
as for free internet access there are at least four unprotected connections round me, that i could access quite easily . but i dont think piggybacking is ethical or really legal, but then again if they dont protect themselves whose fault is it in the end .
 
voda

i too use a voda dongle. it picks up signal in some pretty secluded places and haven't been anywhere there isn't a signal yet. speed is ok ( compared to bloody ntl/virgin cable ). if you're out and about a lot, aim for the one with better coverage. to me, speed isn't as important. poss that's age creeping up !!
 
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