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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Varche on 03 December 2009, 14:40:09
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I am pretty desperate to get away from dial up phone to some form of broadband. No ADSL where I live.
The mobile phone companies here in Spain do a 3G USB modem dongle but I believe you can also connect a desktop PC to the Internet via a 3G phone. What sort of cable do you need or does the phone come with one?
I might even go back to having a mobile after 4 years without one and get rid of my landline!
Varche
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the cable should come with the phone....or use bluetooth :y
ive done it using bluetooth in the past.
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Hang on a bit!
I haven't a clue what Blue Ray is or Blue tooth. I used to be right up with technology but got "off the train" five years ago. My last mobile was a Nokia5146.
If it comes with a cable great. I'll use that.
Next question then. My car still has the handsfree kit for the Nokia 5146. Can I (cheaply) connect my mobile, if I get one, up to it to charge and be useable?
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the cable should come with the phone....or use bluetooth :y
ive done it using bluetooth in the past.
same as jim, great connection too. not too slow either.
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I connected my laptop to the internet through my phone about 5 years ago. It was very expensive though and I dropped it very soon.
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3g connection is not too bad for internet (0.3mb) but better off using a 3.5g phone or dongle (Sim Free dongles are cheap enough now), running at 3.5g or HSDPA will see good results, up to 7.2mb speed.
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I would be very very wary of how much data you will be using though mate, and remember the case recently of some company director using a pc via a mobile to access the internet and landing a £6600 bill IN ONE MONTH from Orange for the amount of data he used......!!!
Be careful !!!!
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I would be very very wary of how much data you will be using though mate, and remember the case recently of some company director using a pc via a mobile to access the internet and landing a £6600 bill IN ONE MONTH from Orange for the amount of data he used......!!!
Be careful !!!!
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£5 for 3gb internet on the mobile with three. and i pay 15 for 3 gbs on my dongle as well which i use all the time now.
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internet in Spain is very expensive compared to the UK. The 44k dial up part for my landline unlimited is about£20 per month!
The Orange 3G dongle with speeds up to 3Mg is £41 per month "unlimited" with a cap of 10Gig and then for rest oif month speed drops to 128k . Aren't you glad of UK prices!
V
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I would be very very wary of how much data you will be using though mate, and remember the case recently of some company director using a pc via a mobile to access the internet and landing a £6600 bill IN ONE MONTH from Orange for the amount of data he used......!!!
Be careful !!!!
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£5 for 3gb internet on the mobile with three. and i pay 15 for 3 gbs on my dongle as well which i use all the time now.
3gb isnt that much to be honest......
I downloaded the Top Gear Vietnam Special to my iPhone last night and that hour and a quarter programme was 852mb........which is getting on for 33% of your monthly allowance then.......
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I haven't a clue what Blue Ray is or Blue tooth. I used to be right up with technology but got "off the train" five years ago.
Bluetooth has been around for at least 15 years.
If it comes with a cable great. I'll use that.
Mobiles work great as a modem, but if you are limited to GPRS then you might as well forget it.
Next question then. My car still has the handsfree kit for the Nokia 5146. Can I (cheaply) connect my mobile, if I get one, up to it to charge and be useable?
"Cheap" depends on whether there is an adaptor to convert your car kit to your current model.
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I would be very very wary of how much data you will be using though mate, and remember the case recently of some company director using a pc via a mobile to access the internet and landing a £6600 bill IN ONE MONTH from Orange for the amount of data he used......!!!
Be careful !!!!
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£5 for 3gb internet on the mobile with three. and i pay 15 for 3 gbs on my dongle as well which i use all the time now.
You need to watch you data use VERY carefully, 3GB is nothing, and there are very nasty charges if you go over.
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I am pretty desperate to get away from dial up phone to some form of broadband. No ADSL where I live.
The mobile phone companies here in Spain do a 3G USB modem dongle but I believe you can also connect a desktop PC to the Internet via a 3G phone. What sort of cable do you need or does the phone come with one?
I might even go back to having a mobile after 4 years without one and get rid of my landline!
Varche
Varche! I did look at the dongle system in Mallorca this year and the cheapest for 3Gb was around €42 per month. Seeing I am not in Mallorca all the time it was not worth it. I just use dial-up from Orange when I am there. I did use my mobile phone with cable a couple of years ago and I soon ditched that idea when the bill came in. :'(
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I would be very very wary of how much data you will be using though mate, and remember the case recently of some company director using a pc via a mobile to access the internet and landing a £6600 bill IN ONE MONTH from Orange for the amount of data he used......!!!
Be careful !!!!
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That only happened because he couldn't grasp the fact that one movie (even in DivX/Xvid format) was hitting him for a minimum 700MB.