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Is mobile broadband any good from three.co.uk?
I have a contract phone from them and that entitles me to half price mobile broadband.
I don't need it but it would suit my mother-in-law perfectly. 1GB monthly allowance, no cables, and no phone supplier change, all for £5 per month.
Is there a cheap source of modems or do you have to get one from three.co.uk (£50 pay as you go or free with 18 months contract)?
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I believe you are looking for a HSDPA type modem. I've been having a look at Option and most of there products are upwards of £100 with some of the data cards reaching £200+
For the peace of mind that the hardware they supply will actually work it's a pretty good deal.
You might want to ask whether phone customers or mobile broadband customers have priority on the network as it can slow down a bit during the day. 
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A work pal of mine is on three with the dongle and thinks its good. I have used a vodafone variant and it had a connection speed of 3.6Mb/s.
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Did you know you can use your 3 mobile phone as a modem too? All the software comes with the mobile, so you can just plug it into your laptop and start surfing at broadband speeds. You'll get the same great value that we offer with Mobile Broadband, with Add-ons starting at just £10 for 1GB of data. It would appear that almost any three phone would do instead of a modem.
Is there any difference in the 3 (number, not name) USB modems Three (name, not number) offer?
This sounds like a breath of fresh air.
When mobile companies talk about 3.6 or 7.2 Mbps they are referring to these theoretical maximum speeds, not speeds you can actually experience ? that's why at 3, we say "up to 2.8 Mbps", even though our HSDPA Network has a theoretical maximum speed of 3.6 Mbps. But your distance from a mobile mast, trees and other buildings between you and the mast, and the number of users can all influence the speed you experience. Most people on our HSDPA Network can expect a speed ranging from 1Mbps to 1.5 Mbps, allowing you to download a 3-4 minute music track in 30 seconds or less.
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AFAIK, it just offers broadband, not email or web hosting etc.
But if you don't want a web page and you're happy with webmail. it's ok.
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I had a fiddle in the shop today and it managed 339KB/s down but only 35KB/s upstream.
Also, if I were to upgrade from 1GB to 3GB limit I'd have to pay full price (i.e. £15 and not £5)
gaming: E4400@2.66GHz / P5K-E / 2x1GB PC8000@533MHz / 2x80GB D'Max 9-RAID0 + 320GB / 8800GTS 512MB / ViewSonic VX2835wm
server+media: P4 2.8GHz @ 2.4GHz / 775Dual-VSTA / 2x512MB PC3200 / 1000GB+500GB+250GB / HD2400pro
also: P3 for the mrs and a linux box and probably enough bits to build another one
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If they are indeed in bytes that is not bad at all. About the equivalent of a 2 Mbit/s connection from BT, albeit with a slightly faster download speed and a similar upload speed.
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I was impressed. That speed was in a large, steel built shopping centre.
What I'm not too happy with is their £1 per MB charge over your limit for PAYG. i.e. £5 for 1GB and £1000 for the next 1GB ! There must be some fiddle there which leads me to my next point ...
I've just sent a blank email with an attatchement of 213K. Outlook express reports it as 218K but my phone says it is 294K.
Now, I know that emails are old tech and text based but that still seems like a large discrepency to me.
Edit: before my post - no, I've just checked it with telnet and the message is 300,312 bytes or to you and me, 294K 
Muse: A 38% overhead with binary email attatchements. Mmm, perhaps we need a new email system that cuts on size and combats spam.
gaming: E4400@2.66GHz / P5K-E / 2x1GB PC8000@533MHz / 2x80GB D'Max 9-RAID0 + 320GB / 8800GTS 512MB / ViewSonic VX2835wm
server+media: P4 2.8GHz @ 2.4GHz / 775Dual-VSTA / 2x512MB PC3200 / 1000GB+500GB+250GB / HD2400pro
also: P3 for the mrs and a linux box and probably enough bits to build another one
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