im really quite impressed! I bought a vodaphone usb modem today for £5 at CPW, and its actually faster than my sky broadband! And also cheaper, since
i can now cancel both the sky and the bleeding talk talk phone line. 
Technology, here i come!
Another amusing thing i noticed; i was umm-ing and ah-ing about getting a netbook, but was wondering about performance - did a check and the cheap
ones are the same spec as my 4 year old desktop! Ie roughly 1.8Ghz and 1gb or ram. Now i think about it, the harddisk is bigger too!
If only everything else fell together so well...
On a down note, i just melted my thermos lid trying to boil some mould out of it 
[Edited on 6/8/10 by JoelP]
i've had a vodafone dongle for nearly two years now, I've never been anywhere it's not had signal. Even in the middle of nowhere in Wales and Scotland, can't fault it
I have one from T-mobile and it's very useful.
One thing to watch - they often have quite a low "fair use" limit.
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
I have one from T-mobile and it's very useful.
One thing to watch - they often have quite a low "fair use" limit.
I agree re the "fair use" policy blowing chunks. The orange broadband one is the worst. They don't tell you what it is (they decide once you've signed) and some people have been cut-off for downloading less than the capped tarriffs. Not sure how that works......
We live in the middle of nowhere and can't get ADSL over the phone line.
We got a Vodafone one but could only ever get 2G/2.5G where we live even though the guy in the shop looked on his database and said we should be
fine!
Had loads of 'discussions' via email and eventually they agreed it was not my computer that was at fault and let me cancel.
So we got an orange dongle, 3GB/month for £15 and the coverage is excellent, regularly getting 1.5Mb Downlink.
Don't use it as much now though because we use a local wireless provider. Get around 4Mb Downlink and 1Mb Uplink.
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Originally posted by JoelP
Might get a contract one on 3 though, which gives 5gb a month for the same wonga.
Sounds like my contract with T-Mobile is a bit more civilised than some - there is a fair use limit, but you don't get penalised immediately if
you exceed it.
First you get a letter, message or similar to say you've gone over the limit, but they don't limit your connection unless you've gone
seriously over the top. They don't charge extra either (I'm on a fixed sum monthly payment of £10 - special rate for people with a T-mobile
phone with internet access).
You only get line restrictions if you've been warned 2 or 3 times in successive months.
The one downside is that transmission speed can be severely compromised mid-evening - I guess that their max data capacity is not too good. This
doesn't really bother me as I mostly use it during the day.
I bought a Mifi from 3. Awesome bit of kit, 1Gb limit for £10. Allows anything with a wifi connection to access t'internet (and I got a few of them, PSP, PDA, netbook, Laptop, and main PC if I can't be arsed to switch router on) It's ideal for Ipod / Ipad etc