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Having been royally screwed around by Virgin and account suspended (and then suddenly re-instated with all charges cancelled) I borrowed a 3G broadband dongle from a nephew.
Had to top-up £10.00 for 1Gb for a month (£15.00 for 3Gb) - the only thing is you have to use it within one month or lose it.
Must admit it worked quite well - just plug in and wait while it went through the installation process.
Did a speed check and results:
D/L 1.8Mb/sec and U/L about 3-4 KB/sec.
Not superfast but quite acceptable but had an odd glitch - at times it would hang before site had fully downloaded leaving just a white page but clicking "disconnect" would reveal part of the page then clicking "connect" and it would carry on from where it left off - rally weird but could work round it.
The strength where I am is quite good (about 5 bars out of 8) but I do live upstairs in a flat so obviously signal strength would vary.
Connecting to a longer USB cable only diminished the signal strength.
Overall it was quite good and you can also put in a micro SD card to convert to a modem + USB flash card.
Could certainly be handy for anyone on the move providing you can get a good signal.
Had to top-up £10.00 for 1Gb for a month (£15.00 for 3Gb) - the only thing is you have to use it within one month or lose it.
Must admit it worked quite well - just plug in and wait while it went through the installation process.
Did a speed check and results:
D/L 1.8Mb/sec and U/L about 3-4 KB/sec.
Not superfast but quite acceptable but had an odd glitch - at times it would hang before site had fully downloaded leaving just a white page but clicking "disconnect" would reveal part of the page then clicking "connect" and it would carry on from where it left off - rally weird but could work round it.
The strength where I am is quite good (about 5 bars out of 8) but I do live upstairs in a flat so obviously signal strength would vary.
Connecting to a longer USB cable only diminished the signal strength.
Overall it was quite good and you can also put in a micro SD card to convert to a modem + USB flash card.
Could certainly be handy for anyone on the move providing you can get a good signal.