[BNM] 3 mobile broadband

[Tom Hume]

Yep, I'm finding it good now. I think many of my problems were down to  
a cable being dodgy.

Met a rather smart telecomms analyst yesterday who pointed out the  
bleeding obvious: that 3 are a good one to go for because they have  
less customers than any other operator... i.e. lower contention for  
the bandwidth.

Trains to London *do* dip in and out, but I get stuff done  
nonetheless. Mind you it used to be nice having an enforced switch- 
off... <sigh>

On 8 Apr 2008, at 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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