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[rushdriver]

Hi

I am thinking about getting one of those cards that you put in the side of your laptop so you can recieve emails and surf the net whilst being away from home. All of the large networks do them and whilst I know that the speed is slow does anyone have any opinions on which one is the best to go for?

I want to really be able to use it and no worry too much about the cost so a fixed plan would be nice.

Cheers

John

[m12_nathan]

Orange are doing a £25 a month fixed cost gprs deal at the moment, the card is £120 and you can spread the cost interest free over the first 12 months.

[rushdriver]

m12_nathan said:

Orange are doing a £25 a month fixed cost gprs deal at the moment, the card is £120 and you can spread the cost interest free over the first 12 months.

Nathan

Thanks for the info. I have spoken to Orange and they told me that this is subject to their "fair use policy" which basically means that if I download 100mb in one month (I would not know 100mb if it jumped up and bit me!), then they would contact me to "discuss my tarrif".

To be honest I would go with Orange but I am worried about going over 100mb (whatever that is). Does anyone use Orange and if so what is the fair use policy like?

Thanks for the info

John

[UpTheIron]

The Orange card is 99p from here: www.scancom.co.uk/customer/product.php?productid=16390&cat=312&page=1

If out and out performance / quality product is preferred to bargain basement price, then these are the daddy: www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=AIRCARD750

Of course, in a strong signal area then there will be next to nothing between the two.

[m12_nathan]

100MB should be ok for email unless you tend to get a lot of big pictures etc as attachments, light web browsing should be alright as well, but again no videos, streaming media etc.

[Simpo Two]

rushdriver said:

I would not know 100mb if it jumped up and bit me!

If you're familiar with a dial-up connection, 100Mb would take about 8 hours to download - so spread over a month that's 16 mins downloading a day.

I think...

[rushdriver]

Simpo Two said:

rushdriver said: I would not know 100mb if it jumped up and bit me! If you're familiar with a dial-up connection, 100Mb would take about 8 hours to download - so spread over a month that's 16 mins downloading a day. I think...

16 mins per day does not seem that much to me to be honest. I wonder if it is worth going to another supplier?

Thanks for your help everybody.

John

[Simpo Two]

True, but that's solid downloading time. If you're only going to send/receive plain e-mails (no attachments) they're 3-15Kb each - so even at 15Kb that's room for 6,666 e-mails!

I think.