The Mégane II Owners' Club

Hi all,

Something a bit different. Has anyone had experience with mobile broadband, you know those little dongles you plug into your laptop?

I am in Lancashire and the best bet so far seems to be pay as you go with 3 mobile. Anyone have experience with their broadband network?

Any help would be great.

Ta
Ant

I looked at these but decided against, seem alot of money for not a great deal of data limit.. I am
With bt broadband and therefor have access to bt openzone and other hotshots via wifi, I find in most cities I've visited there is pretty good coverage, I think you can check it online.. Defending worth looking into, the payband go thing would have cost around £25/50 a month for the data I use so saves alot!

depends on what 3G signals you have in your area.
I have an o2 data sim in a mifi device and it works fine if there's decent 3G signal

Yeah I checked the coverage for 3 and they claim it will work well indoors. The plan I'm looking at provides 3gb's of data over a 3 month period. Do you think this would be okay for general surfing ie. no streaming video, music downloads etc.

3GB is plenty for ordinary surfing (checking emails, looking at standard web pages and so forth). It was standard on wired ADSL a few years ago (some deals still exist). EDIT - I see that you have 3GB per quarter meaning 1GB per month - it's still plenty.

You should be able to get free software to monitor the traffic levels anyhow.

Signal strength varies obviously, but I could get a steady 7.2Mb/s last time I tried on 3G. If you can only get GPRS (your phone settings ought to inform you of what protocol its using) it will be much less (more like dial-up).

Okay thanks for all your help guys