Re: [Hampshire] Mobile Broadband opinions

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Author: Rik
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Mobile Broadband opinions

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 18:13 +0000, Andrew Rogers wrote:
> Good afternoon fellow LUGers,
>
> I'm shortly moving into a home that has no broadband, but as it is
> possibly quite temporary I dont want to arrange home broadband. So
> what other options do I have? I currently when away from home use my
> mobile phone connected to my Eee PC 701 running Ubuntu 8.10 without
> problems using Orange 3G+ at £1 a day for every day I connect. So my
> question is, is this my best option or would I be better getting a
> dongle and either a contract or PAYG? Its hard to say what my usage
> is going to be but I would guess its going to be around 5-8Gb/month.
>
> Regards
>
> Andy Rogers
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This may be somewhat useful to you:

http://www.sitefinder.ofcom.org.uk/

Gives you an idea of what mobile services are local and who has them.