[Gllug] PAYG mobile broadband

[Steve Parker]

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.

Steve

On 15/12/10 16:05, Tristan Miller wrote:
> 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 probably out of date.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
>
>    


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