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My 3 account page says it is "SIM Only Broadband 5GB" (ISTR the dongle
was a £19 one-off purchase); I can only see the £5/mo 1Gb package on
their website now. They may be able to do a deal in-store, I don't know?<br>
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The dongle is a Huawei E156G:<br>
$ dmesg|grep HU<br>
[ 8.584368] usb 1-1: Product: HUAWEI Mobile<br>
[ 8.584377] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: HUAWEI Technology<br>
[ 13.766175] scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM HUAWEI Mass
Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2<br>
[ 13.772569] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access HUAWEI MMC
Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2<br>
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Some recent GNOME installs pick it up automatically; I prefer to
control it with the command line:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://steve-parker.org/urandom/comment.php?art=736">http://steve-parker.org/urandom/comment.php?art=736</a><br>
<br>
Steve.<br>
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On 15/12/10 16:58, Tristan Miller wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:201012151658.42378.psychonaut@nothingisreal.com"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">Dear Steve,
On Wednesday 15 December 2010, Steve Parker wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">I have been using a 3 dongle for the past 18 months; £15/month with a
5Gb cap. Works fine here in Holborn, and almost everywhere I've tried
it.
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</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">
That sounds great. Can you give me more details of the package? I don't
see it listed on 3's PAYG mobile broadband packages page at
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://threestore.three.co.uk/payg/?modem=1"><http://threestore.three.co.uk/payg/?modem=1></a> or
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.three.co.uk/Mobile_Broadband/Choose_a_price_plan/Pay_As_You_Go"><http://www.three.co.uk/Mobile_Broadband/Choose_a_price_plan/Pay_As_You_Go></a>.
According to these pages you buy the modem for a certain price (depending
on how much data allowance you want at the outset), but £15 gets you only
an additional 3GB, not 5GB.
Also, do you know the make and model of your dongle? It's possible that in
18 months they've switched to another brand and model which might not work
with Linux.
Regards,
Tristan
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