I hit lucky :-) The local store had one left at the bottom of a drawer - and the salesman remembered it when I asked as the promotion finished a couple of months ago!
I'm using it now but the speed is v e r y s l o o o o o o w :( Trevor - hoping the ice goes before the credit!! On 21/01/2010 16:14, Dave Wedd wrote: > Take care with your Vodafone dongle. The no-expiry service is not > available on new dongles. I'm told that the old dongles are dedicated > to the old SIM cards, so you can't just swap the SIM into a new > dongle. The no-expiry dongle has to be used at least once every 6 > months, and can still be topped up for £15 per 1GB. New dongles are > £15 per 3GB but expire after 1 month. > > The 3 network were giving 150MB free at each topup, but they've now > stopped it. Apparently it was a mistake - it was only supposed to > apply to phones and not broadband dongles. > > Dave Wedd. > > 2010/1/21 Trevor<[email protected]>: > >> Hi David, >> >> I'm actually using a PCLine four port thumb drive(unfortunately it is >> only USB 1.1 spec so I'm getting regular nags about how USB2 is so much >> faster .. lol ..) and tests, here at home this morning, have been very >> successful - I've even managed to get a decent '3' signal (quite >> unusually), although the dongles are probably at least a couple of >> metres higher than previously. >> >> The fact that I'm also using a 5 metre powered USB2.0 active extension >> cable, immediately before the thumb hub, might also have something to do >> with that. >> >> Power supply to the dongles *was* a concern, before the tests, and I'd >> found some 'Y' cables on Ebay - luckily I seem to be able to manage >> without one :-) >> >> Everything is mounted onto a length of dowelling which then goes into a >> white plastic pipe (black pipe isn't usually successful, I'm told - >> although I haven't tried it personally - that this is due to the >> inclusion of graphite to provide the black colour) on the advice of some >> members of CARC who, apparently, often use this idea when building >> aerials for their rigs which they want to keep neat and dry! >> >> The pipe itself is actually the leg from an old, and now defunct, patio >> table and the whole assembly is going to be attached to the outside >> bulkhead of the saloon, close by the side doors, using a number of >> small, though extremely powerful, magnets - which I discovered whilst >> rummaging through a box of bits that I discovered after taking over >> 'Wyrd'! Doing it this way allows me to demount, and bring inside, the >> aerial assembly if I am leaving the boat for any significant period of time. >> >> So, all the parts are OK - individually - I just need to put it all >> together to make the finished product :-) >> >> Many thanks for the feedback - it is always appreciated! >> >> Trevor >> nb.Wyrd - on the K&A >> >> >> >> On 21/01/2010 09:54, David Morris wrote: >> >>> Two USB peripherals on the same physical port? Were you planning on >>> using some sort of Y cable? That's not going to work. Two USB dongles >>> plugged in to a USB hub would - the hub would handle contention and >>> 'routing' between the two dongles. 500ma is the correct number, but it >>> would need to be a powered hub. Some USB ports on desktops / laptops >>> can supply 500ma - some fail dismally and use a Y cable simply to >>> double up on the power availability. It's not uncommon to see these in >>> use on USB 2.5 HD enclosures for instance. My Sony eBook reader >>> shipped with one for the same reason - for charging. >>> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
