[Gllug] PAYG mobile broadband

[David Abbishaw]

Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:05:27 +0000
> From: Tristan Miller<psychonaut at nothingisreal.com>
> Subject: [Gllug] PAYG mobile broadband
> To: gllug at gllug.org.uk
> Message-ID:<201012151605.32755.psychonaut at nothingisreal.com>
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> Dear all,
>
> We're moving house next week, and unfortunately Internet won't be installed
> for another month.  (The new house doesn't have a phone line and the
> earliest appointment they have to send an engineer over is mid-January.)
> Until then I thought we could get a pay-as-you-go mobile broadband service.
> I did some web searches to see what providers' USB modems are compatible
> with Linux, but it seems most of the information is from 2008, which is
> probably out of date.
>
> Can anyone here recommend a specific PAYG package (modem + service) which
>
> a) is available in London,
>
> b) is not too expensive (say, 35 GBP or less for the month), and
>
> c) will work with KDE on openSUSE 11.3 on my x86-64 notebook?
>
> Regards,
> Tristan
>
What about the following -

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/THREE-3-MOBILE-BROADBAND-SIM-CARD-3GB-DATA-90-DAYS-/290482497512?pt=UK_Mobile_Home_Phones_Sim_Cards_CV&hash=item43a21b27e8

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ZTE-MF627-THREE-PAY-BROADBAND-USB-MODEM-1GB-READY-/160395269728?pt=UK_Computing_LaptopAccessories_PCMCIACards&hash=item25584d9660

zte-mf627 Should work with Open Suse,   It works with the orginal eeepc 
OS too.


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