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~Allan~
--- In [email protected], "Adrian Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi
> Beén lürking On here for ä while.
>
> Hello!
>
> I've got an E220 plügged into ä Belken wiréless router .... best
of both worlds.
> No config change for laptops as it setup with the samé Settings as
wifi at home.
> .
> Cürrently at Winkwell On the grand ünion heäding north no signal
(first time This has happened) so forgive typó's.
>
> Äde
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:20
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [canals-list] free wifi OT
>
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew
Dyke
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >Sorry if I am being thick here but can you explain HST please?.
>
> No idea! The dongles are HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access)
which
> give IP connectivity at a speed which is not far short of wot I get
from
> home.
>
> >I am
> >interested in this thread as I am considering getting the 3 dongle
at 50 UKP
> >and use it PAYG. I know Martin Phillips is pleased with his. The
only down
> >side I can see is the 10 UKP, 1gb top up PAYG must be used with 30
days, so
> >not true PAYG. Was it easy to set up?
>
> The 3 dongle (using the E220 device which is wide and flat and
comes in
> pink) is dead easy to set up. You plug it in, follow the
instructions
> and you're attached to the internet. Totally painless. Ten quid for
a
> month's access seems a bargain from my POV - if we're going away
for a
> while I'm happy to pay it, otherwise for the odd weekend if I
really
> need connection I'll hunt out a free wifi point. In the two week
trip
> which we've just had, we only used about 60 MB of the allocation,
which
> included a quite large amount of webmail usage to the company MS
> exchange site. I think that unless you're downloading a lot of
video or
> porn, most people will be pushed to come anywhere near 1 GB in a
month.
>
> The E220 also works with Linux painlessly (it was easier to set up
on an
> EEE with native Xandros than on Windoze).
>
> The 3 dongle worked fine pretty much anywhere we tried it, other
than
> outside the Boat at Ashleworth which is a location where R4 is a
bit of
> a struggle.
>
> Wassail!
> --
> Martin E Phillips http://www.g4cio.demon.co.uk
> Homebrewing, black pudding, boats, morris dancing, ham radio and
more!
> The Gloucester-Sharpness canal web page http://www.glos-
sharpness.org.uk
>
>
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