[BNM] 3 mobile broadband

[Mark Ng]

I've had good luck with the t-mobile white dongle (not the new black
one) on a macbook with Tiger.  It's the same hardware as the one 3
use.  Only problem I've had with it is through the new forest.

Mark

On 08/04/2008, Chris Billett <chris at chrisbillett.net> wrote:
> n' I have a CEO at Imag. waiting for one of these, too, so any knowledge
>  would be awesome. o2 (our supplier at the moment for phones) claim to have a
>  USB dongle coming out in the next fourteen days, but Vodaphone did us well
>  all over Europe for Where Are The Joneses, so they'll be hard to beat.
>
>  (the one I have to do is a Leopard based MacBook Air, so if they're unstable
>  that's bad!!)
>
>
>  On 08/04/2008 21:25, "Tom Nixon" wrote:
>
>  > Just resurrecting an old thread. Tom, are you finding your 3G dongle
>  > to be stable on Leopard now?
>  > Anyone else have any other mobile broadband options?
>  > My priority is reliability and coverage (especially on the trains to
>  > london!) rather than super-fast speed.
>  >
>  > T.
>  >
>  > On 7 Jan 2008, at 15:23, Tom Hume wrote:
>  >
>  >> It's possible I imagined it, but the speed I was getting seemed to
>  >> jump suddenly towards the end of last year...
>  >>
>  >> On 7 Jan 2008, at 15:14, wayne wrote:
>  >>
>  >>> My T-Mobile dongle says it's on the HSDPA network when I use it in
>  >> b-
>  >>> town.
>  >>>
>  >>> -----Original Message-----
>  >>> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
>  >>> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
>  >>> ] On Behalf Of Alastair James
>  >>> Sent: 07 January 2008 15:12
>  >>> To: Brighton New Media
>  >>> Subject: Re: [BNM] 3 mobile broadband
>  >>>
>  >>> Hmmm... Looking at the 3 site, it says brighton is not yet in the
>  >>> HSDPA network... Not sure if thats just not updated yet. I may pop
>  >> in
>  >>> next time I walk by....
>  >>>
>  >>> Al
>  >>>
>  >>> On 07/01/2008, Tom Hume <Tom.Hume at futureplatforms.com> wrote:
>  >>>> The fast signal is their HSDPA network - 2mb they say, I think. If
>  >>>> you
>  >>>> don't have this, then you still get online at 3G speeds which I
>  >> found
>  >>>> quite reasonable. When I first got the modem last October, Brighton
>  >>>> was outside coverage but London was inside. I really noticed when
>  >>>> they
>  >>>> rolled out to Brighton.
>  >>>>
>  >>>> BUT BUT BUT I'm finding that either coverage here is a bit on/
>  >> off, or
>  >>>> the Leopard drivers are rubbish. I have hours when I can't connect
>  >>>> (and my laptop reports that it can't even find the modem) at the
>  >>>> moment. Any PC people finding the service reliable here? I have a
>  >>>> feeling it's Leopard, before I upgraded it was pretty reliable.
>  >>>>
>  >>>> On 7 Jan 2008, at 11:26, paul perrin wrote:
>  >>>>
>  >>>>> I am not 100% sure but I think the £5 a month internet pack is
>  >>>>> limited to
>  >>>>> the basic data rate, the others (£10 +) use the faster signal (if
>  >>>>> you have
>  >>>>> coverage). And I think only particular phones/devices can use the
>  >>>>> faster
>  >>>>> signal...
>  >>>>
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