Pay as you go dongles

[Skyedriver]

Hi, I know I'm going back to the dark ages here, I used to have a Vodaphone internet dongle about 12 or more years ago which was sketchy at best but in a poor signal area.
I'm likely to be at a place with no actual internet although phone signal is OK.
Is there a decent USB dongle to allow lap top usage?
thanks

[x5tuu]

Just hot-spot your phone?

[Ham_and_Jam]

Either that or a mobile mifi router.

[Jenny Tailor]

Yup - you can even get a full fat proper router with 4G or 5G instead of being wired to a landline.

Fill your boots.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Router recommendations in there as well as directional or omni-directional antenna advice to improve signal strength / speed.

[LeeM135i]

Have had a Vodafone Mifi dongle since COVID began and we found our Wi-Fi wouldn’t handle both of us working from home on teams calls. I send the invoice to work and they pay it back. Cost is £25 a month for unlimited data. I only have the MacBook connected to it and it works well.

[Bacon Is Proof]

How much do you want to spend?
I use a £50 Huawei 4g mifi thingy for my internets.
Fine for browsing or Netflix, though it's just the two of us.

[Skyedriver]

It would seem that things have moved on since 2009!

To clarify, it's probably for a week, maybe two, bit of browsing plus MotoGP on BT Sport and a couple of football matches on NowTV.

At home we are with BT for internet and my mobile phone while TV is through Sky (with BT Sport add on) with the occasional one day licence for NowTV.

Remembering I'm back in 2009 in my limited tech knowledge, I need to start reading up but if anyone could nudge me towards 2022 in simple terms that would be really helpful.
Thanks

[Wacky Racer]

When on holiday I tether my laptop to my mobile phone, never have a problem unless the reception is crap.

I'm with Smarty.

[Big Pants]

Skyedriver said:

It would seem that things have moved on since 2009!

Remembering I'm back in 2009 in my limited tech knowledge, I need to start reading up but if anyone could nudge me towards 2022 in simple terms that would be really helpful.
Thanks

If your phone signal is ok (which it seems to be from your first post), then it's as simple as setting up your phone to broadcast a local wifi signal that you can then log in to with your laptop (tethering).

On an iPhone go to Settings & click on Personal Hotspot.

If you have an android it'll be something very similar.

Edited to say make sure you have enough data in your phone contract to allow for your planned usage, obviously.

[Skyedriver]

x5tuu said:

Just hot-spot your phone?

This sounds like an option I think.
Thanks