[BNM] 3 mobile broadband

Wed Apr 9 09:41:49 BST 2008

I've got the white T-mobile one. Works nicely with both Tiger and Leopard.
And the brighton-london train connection is pretty good.  I partly went with
tmobile coz I figured they'd have done a bit of work on the 3G network to
make sure it works for the train wifi.

Still think a suction cup on the back of the dongle would be good. Could
stick it high up the window on the train, which ought to help in deep
cuttings.

-g

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Mark Ng <mark at markng.me.uk> wrote:

> 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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