[BNM] 3 mobile broadband

Tue Apr 8 23:47:43 BST 2008

I found it quite funny watching people wrestle with their phone t'other day
on the Brighton line, as I sat there happily devouring bandwidth on the
on-train wireless. I was skyping a friend in Norway, with video, and they
were having trouble calling Haywards Heath to get the fish fingers in the
oven!

Bloody expensive though. (unless you've got iPass... *whistles innocently*)

CB

On 08/04/2008 21:56, "Tom Hume" wrote:

> 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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