By Kubla Khan.
Thursday, 28. May 2009, 01:15:37
broadband dongle, bullshit, bullshit broadband deals, broadband charges
Unlimited broadband at just £15/Gb. Yes, that's right, it's
unlimited! Well, unlimited til you get to 1Gb...
These people should be flogged.
By Kubla Khan.
Sunday, 5. April 2009, 15:39:40
journalists, mobile computing, reviews., broadband dongle
Journalists are a lazy bunch at the best of times. Certainly don't rely on them for an inbiased review of a new product. Most likely you will just receive a rehash of a press release. For instance, the connection speeds that the 'journalist' claims will never actually be possible in the 'real world'. In Journo/PR world these dongles are amazing, not quite as amazing as claimed of courses - so you think 'ah this journo is given me the unvarnished truth' - but they might claim to get 2Mb connection when the dongle provider PR claims 3.2 or up to 7.2Mbs. In fact you will incredibly lucky to get 500Kbs and that's downhill-with-the-wind-behind-you.
By Kubla Khan.
Friday, 3. April 2009, 14:17:56
mobile computing, mobile office, broadband dongle, usb sticks
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It is a close call between Three (incredibly unreliable, at times sub-crawl speed even in good or excellent signal areas) and O2 (poor coverage and piss-poor speeds) That leaves Vodafuck (only 1Gb per £15) and T-mobile (doesn't work and 'free wireless' certainly doesn't work)
You simply CANNOT RELY on any of these services. Three simply denies all knowledge of any problems, offers to fix modems (that aren't broken anyway), offers to send out engineers, reneges etc etc
O2 just has embarassingly poor coverage.
This is all on top of the drumming they all received on BBC1's Watchdog...
Oh yeah, Skype is pretty shit too.
Read more...
By Kubla Khan.
Saturday, 21. March 2009, 01:58:43
mobile computing, mobile office, broadband dongle, mobile broadband
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I bought a Huawei D100 which is a neat little device for plugging your Three broadband dongle into. It then broadcasts a wireless signal protected by 128-bit WEP (DOH! What's wrong with WPA?) encryption. VERY easy to set up, very small and rinky dinky slinky. It even has an ethernet port if you need someone to connect that way (eg if they haven't got a wireless laptop/desktop) AND they've included the RJ45 (ethernet) cable. Well, you'd expect them to at a pricey £68 but once you've got it, you've got it and I won't go back to plugging my stick in at home. Though I've yet to check out it's limits, i'm happy to report that it sends through walls no problem.
By Kubla Khan.
Thursday, 19. March 2009, 01:02:47
mobile computing, mobile phones, broadband dongle, O2
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Basically it's so crap, I can't watch BBC iPlayer without the wheel of death appearing every few seconds. This is even when I put it pause for a good while to allow it to build up a head of steam.
Come back Three, at least I could watch iPlayer when it worked...
Also the O2 widget doesn't allow one to see what speed the connection is running at.
The O2 website also promises unlimited wireless access to The Cloud etc but as we all know from T mobile, that won't work.
Another expensive disappointment brought to you courtesy of the UK crappy mobile phone companies.
All together now "...you're shit and you know you are, you're shit and you know you are, you're shit and you know you are, you're shi-it and you know you are..."
By Kubla Khan.
Tuesday, 10. March 2009, 21:07:24
broadband dongle, Three broadband, mobile internet, Three
Just HAVE to vent my spleen yet again about the FUCKING APPALLING 'speed' of mobile broadband with a Three dongle and with GOOD SIGNAL.
More screenshots to follow...
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By Kubla Khan.
Wednesday, 8. October 2008, 00:50:30
broadband dongle, Three, mobile broadband
This is the broadband speed in an excellent signal area. Impressive huh?
Needless to say we want to get out of this contract. Vodafone gives much better speeds from the same area even though the signal shows as much weaker.
This is a second test a few minutes later. Better but still nothing to write home about . A totally unreliable service.
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