TNM
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
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Ive been working away alot recently and ive cant belive how much hotels want to charge for Wi-Fi!
Most of them want to charge £5 for 60mins or 25mb or £6.50 for 24 hours and about 100mb. More than that it gets stupid.
One hotel i was in last week had a mcdonalds next to it with free Wi-Fi. There was some one asking at reception how much the W-Fi was and the girl said oh its not very much. I told the guy it was free at mcdonalds next door. 5 mins later i was sat in the bar as i saw him walking out the hotel heading for mcdonalds with his laptop bag over his shoulder 
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Steve
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pmsl
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TNM
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I stopped at the cambridge services on the M11 and the Wi-Fi there is for 3 users only. Whats the point?! I didnt think any one was on 3!
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
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Just get a HSDPA modem, problem solved
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TNM
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Yes but i dont want to pay for that Maffooo! I would only use it when im working away. Work will pay for anything i want apart from tin'ternet
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Matt H
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£10 a month you tight bastard
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TNM
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for about 3mb!
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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1gb mofo
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James_DT
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Cambridgeshire
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You can get the 3 Modem on PAYG, too.
My GF has the 3 Modem, it works much better than I expected it to.
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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I need something like that but data card with anything other than emergency usage was loads of money per month.
It also needs to work at the Pod 
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James_DT
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Should get 3 coverage at the Pod. £10 for 1gb, £15 for 3gb.
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DarkBahamut
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Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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The mobile data services really don't cost very much anymore (unless you are on orange ).
A few of the decent data networks have data cards (such as three, t-mobile, vodaphone) and if you have a contract phone with these you can sometimes get them cheaper via your phone contract.
I pay £12.50 for 3GB a month on t-mobile on my phone contract. Means i can use the data on my phone or use the phone as a modem and use my laptop when away from home. Its ideal really  .
[Edited on 05-02-2008 by DarkBahamut]
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Matt H
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
I need something like that but data card with anything other than emergency usage was loads of money per month.
It also needs to work at the Pod
Keyword 
Whats the pods postcode? I'll do a check to see if mine works
[Edited on 05-02-2008 by Matt H]
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Rob_Quads
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quote:
Originally posted by DarkBahamut
The mobile data services really don't cost very much anymore (unless you are on orange ).
A few of the decent data networks have data cards (such as three, t-mobile, vodaphone) and if you have a contract phone with these you can sometimes get them cheaper via your phone contract.
I pay £12.50 for 3GB a month on t-mobile on my phone contract. Means i can use the data on my phone or use the phone as a modem and use my laptop when away from home. Its ideal really .
[Edited on 05-02-2008 by DarkBahamut]
Is that the web'n'walk package?
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DarkBahamut
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob_Quads
quote:
Originally posted by DarkBahamut
The mobile data services really don't cost very much anymore (unless you are on orange ).
A few of the decent data networks have data cards (such as three, t-mobile, vodaphone) and if you have a contract phone with these you can sometimes get them cheaper via your phone contract.
I pay £12.50 for 3GB a month on t-mobile on my phone contract. Means i can use the data on my phone or use the phone as a modem and use my laptop when away from home. Its ideal really .
[Edited on 05-02-2008 by DarkBahamut]
Is that the web'n'walk package?
Thats the one. I use the web'n'walk plus package. The standard £7.50 a month one is abit limiting in what they allow you to do with it (no IMs, no peer to peer, no modem support and no voip) and only give you 1GB a month. The plus one for £12.50 increases the limits to 3GB and allows everything expect voip, which i don't think is unreasonable.
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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NN29 7XA
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Matt H
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Marginal at best, bit sketchy infact. I'll take mine along & see how it is, there's no planned masts to go up over the next 4 years so fingers crossed 
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DarkBahamut
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Seems abit out of the way . T-Mobile claim to have good 2G access but low to none 3G access. So you could get GPRS access there, but anything more seems to be pushing it.
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Matt H
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384 kbps is better than nothing
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DarkBahamut
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Registered: 4th Jun 06
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384kbps is 3G. 48kbps is GPRS . You can get slightly faster with EDGE, but not many networks support this.
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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Just voda, t-mob & 3
And it's much faster than 3g! Mines faster than my home broadband!
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James_DT
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Cambridgeshire
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The Three HSDPA modem is fantastic. My GF gets the full HSDPA service, although in her room it goes between 3G and HSDPA every couple of minutes. Still works perfectly with 4OD and Napster though.
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Matt H
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They go down to 3g when idling on a web page, then HSDPA kicks in when you need it
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DarkBahamut
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quote:
Originally posted by Matt H
Just voda, t-mob & 3
And it's much faster than 3g! Mines faster than my home broadband!
HSDPA is alot faster than 3G, it can support speeds of up to 14.4Mbit/sec, although networks only use 1.8 or 3.6 mbps currently.
EDGE is slower than 3G, somewhere in the region of 200Kbps or so. Only O2 and orange support this is i believe. EDGE is a 2G tech, so would be available if you were out of 3G range, which is useful, but is hardly support at all. O2 only support EDGE now because of the iPhone, since thats the fastest data transfer the iPhone can do (what a shit phone ).
[Edited on 06-02-2008 by DarkBahamut]
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