O2 + Netbook

Hello

What I know about this subject is nearly zero, but...

I have an iPhone provided by my company. I'm thinking of getting a netbook
that says it has 3G support (Acer Aspire One). So, can you simply take the
SIM card from the iPhone and put it in the netbook AND expect the netbook to
be able to get on the interweb thing? Or will O2 realise that it's not an
iPhone and stymie my plans?

Ta.

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:38:57 +0100, "Grumps" <mrg@hotmail.com> wrote:

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Should work, I think!
Do acer now do a netbook that takes a sim card then?

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<am@x.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:38:57 +0100, "Grumps" <mrg@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> Should work, I think!
> Do acer now do a netbook that takes a sim card then?

It looks like the Aspire One A110 is 3G:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/my4ffg (play.com)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/nyhs8s (acer.co.uk)

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:13:20 +0100, "Grumps" <nothere@hotmail.com>
wrote:

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It looks like it does, the one I had I couldn't get a Dongle to work
with Linux.
I've given up with Linux & 3G Dongles!
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On 16 July, 12:38, "Grumps" <m...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> What I know about this subject is nearly zero, but...
>
> I have an iPhone provided by my company. I'm thinking of getting a netbook
> that says it has 3G support (Acer Aspire One). So, can you simply take the
> SIM card from the iPhone and put it in the netbook AND expect the netbook to
> be able to get on the interweb thing? Or will O2 realise that it's not an
> iPhone and stymie my plans?
>
> Ta.

O2's terms and conditions specifically exclude using the iPhone SIM in
another phone, as a modem, or in a dongle

however, people do keep mentioning it

but it is much rarer to read any of them coming back and saying
whether they actually tried it or if it actually works for a
significant time

it would be hard to explain things to your employer of O2 impose any
sanction, so I'd
suggest get a separate SIM for any experiments

but on the other hand, mobile broadband deals are cheap anyway

Just wondering which linux?
Ubuntu (ibex edition) is suppost to have good support for stuff like that

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On 2009-07-17, am@x.com <am@x.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:13:20 +0100, "Grumps" <nothere@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
><snip>
> It looks like it does, the one I had I couldn't get a Dongle to work
> with Linux.
> I've given up with Linux & 3G Dongles!

I've had Fedora 10 working with the Vodafone PAYG dongle (indeed, it
just worked, practically no configuration needed), and the "original"
H3G dongle works out of the box on the Asus EeePC, and I've managed to
get it working on an old Red Hat 9 machine (with kernel upgrade, of
course).

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In message <mvc06591q45b7olg5h34op4pvrrq6rfmpm@4ax.com>
am@x.com wrote:

> the one I had I couldn't get a Dongle to work with Linux.
> I've given up with Linux & 3G Dongles!

I use a Huawei E160G dongle very successfully with an original Eee
with Xandros. I did need to use the Eee's update facilities first,
though.

Dave