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bilco8 wrote:Free Wifi on some buses now!
gap74 wrote:I've treated myself to a T-Mobile dongle thingy - no more relying on the cafe across the road when I'm at work, a boon considering most of my job involves sitting around doing nothing!
Very easy to set-up to, just plug it in, load it up and that's pretty much you.
Only really use it in city centre, where the various mobile technologies used are fairly strong, so can't comment on how it is in outer areas - although I have used it at home in Cambuslang and it wasn't too bad.
Oh, and by default, it loads highly compressed graphics, for full quality graphics you need to also download an accelerator, something oddly not given very prominent mention (if at all!) in any of the documentation.
gap74 wrote:I tend to run it with the graphics at original quality, and to be honest, it's not blistering, but neither is it hugely slow. As for bandwidth, I found in the first month that I only used about 1.3Gb from my 3Gb allowance - to be honest, unless you're a huge filesharer or video downloader or the like, I can't see that being a huge problem - I use it for general surfing, with the odd large email attachment, and some fair Flickr and YouTube usage too.
Was originally sampling it with a view to ditching my landline and broadband at home, simply because I don't use my landline for anything other than broadband, and I detest BT! Jury is still out on whether it's a usable substitute.
scotgio wrote: if your needs are the occasional light browse/shop/email/facebook etc I think you could quite easily ditch a landline.
Josef wrote:scotgio wrote: if your needs are the occasional light browse/shop/email/facebook etc I think you could quite easily ditch a landline.
Not to quibble with that, but I am aware of a couple of public organisations that barred access to Facebook and Bebo by staff and found that 40-60% of their bandwidth was freed up instantly.
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