 Re: PAYG Mobile Broadband O2 or T Mobile?
"Grumps" <nothere@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "iain" <spamtrap@hairydog.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:43:26 +0100, "Grumps" <nothere@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks for the link. Ideally I'm looking for a SIM only. Do these USB
>>>dongles/modems have a SIM inside?
>>
>> Yes, but as you can get a free sim from 3, that's not a sane way to
>> get a sim.
>>
>>>
>>>> I agree with you about the 3 site data - those figures are way out if
>>>> it
>>>> is 1GigaByte. They do sat 1GB and elsewhere 3.6Mbps, implying they
>>>> mean't
>>>> bytes.
>>>
>>>I had an online chat with a 3 rep. It is indeed 1Gbyte. He was unable to
>>>say
>>>why a music track (by their numbers) was 32Mbytes, and an email 1Mbyte.
>>>He
>>>said that "it was variable"!
>>
>> He is right. How long is a music track? 1 minute? 1 hour?
>
> They suggest 4 minutes.
>
>> Has the email got lots of photos attached?
>
> Come on, the average email is not 1Mbyte!
>
>>>He also asked which post code I would be using it in. I thought this a
>>>strange question for mobile use.
>>
>> Not really. He can look up coverage by postcode.
>
> Point is, that being mobile internet you can't say what postcode you'll be
> using it at. Only you home address and some regular places.
And I've just run a little test to see what amount of browsing you can do
for 150MB (Mbytes). Using NetStatLive from AnalogX, it suggests that after a
bit of surfing (BBC, Wiki, Google, eBuyer, play.com, and a few forums), I'd
downloaded 12.4MB in 34 minutes. That's about 365kB/minute. So your 150MB
would last for about 7 hours' surfing! Then again, if you're googling for
pr0no, this figure will be less (but you probably only need 10 minutes of
surfing if that's what you're doing ;-)
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