[Gllug] PAYG mobile broadband

[Steve Parker]

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?

The dongle is a Huawei E156G:
$ dmesg|grep HU
[    8.584368] usb 1-1: Product: HUAWEI Mobile
[    8.584377] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: HUAWEI Technology
[   13.766175] scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HUAWEI   Mass Storage     
2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[   13.772569] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     HUAWEI   MMC Storage      
2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2

Some recent GNOME installs pick it up automatically; I prefer to control 
it with the command line:
http://steve-parker.org/urandom/comment.php?art=736

Steve.

On 15/12/10 16:58, Tristan Miller wrote:
> Dear Steve,
>
> On Wednesday 15 December 2010, Steve Parker wrote:
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> 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
> <http://threestore.three.co.uk/payg/?modem=1>  or
> <http://www.three.co.uk/Mobile_Broadband/Choose_a_price_plan/Pay_As_You_Go>.
> 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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