[sclug] Mobile Internet from T Mobile.

[Dave Rice]

Hi all,

this is my first send to the list - I have recently moved to the area for a
while whist studying so thought i'd pop onto the list whilst here :)

I haven't tried the Vodafone modem but have the 3 one.

The modem worked fine under Ubuntu with speeds here (beaconsfield) upto
1.8mbs.  However I had to send it back as the coverage at work, which is
where i was to use it, wasn't great and with 3 they don't let you use normal
GPRS data transfer.

3 are the cheapest i found at just ?10 a month for 1gb transfer, ?15 for
3gb.

The modem was a Huawei E220  and i found details on how to get it working
under all *nix variants here: http://oozie.fm.interia.pl/pro/huawei-e220/
the site speaks about kernels 2.6.20 and below, but on ubuntu 7.10 i still
had to apply the patch, but it worked fine after then. The little stats GUI
worked nicely too.

If you can get strong 3g coverage then it's certainly worth looking at.

hope that's useful, and hello again :)

Ricey



On 07/12/2007, Tom Dawes-Gamble <tmdg at weardale.cl> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 23:30 +0000, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> > On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:25:16 +0000, tmdg at weardale.cl said:
> >
> > > It would seem to me to be a much better deal than buying hot spot
> time.
> >
> > Bizarre. There are two deals:
> >
> > Broadband Plus Free USB modem
> > ? ?15 a month
> > ? Broadband Plus 24 month contract
> > ? Up to 3GB of data allowance a month and speeds of up to 2.8Mbps
>
> > or
> >
> > Web 'n' Walk Plus Free USB modem
> >
> > ? ?15 per month
> > ? Web 'n' Walk Plus 24 month contract
> > ? Up to 3GB of data allowance a month and speeds of up to 1.8Mbps
> >
> > So, basically, identical including price except one gives you a faster
> > connection.
>
> There is of course coverage and it's the famous "up to" I may look into
> it though.
>
> Regards,
> Tom.
>
>