Vodafone USB broadband dongle in a non 3G (2G only) area??

Hiya, a friend wants to know if he can use the Vodafone USB dongle for 2G
only? Yes, I know it will be painfully slow, but there's no 3G coverage what
so ever where he is! So are these dongles 2G/3G? Or 3G only?


Cheers, Matthew Long

On Sun, 4 May 2008 22:54:50 +0100, "Matthew Long" <No-Sp@m.com> wrote:

>Hiya, a friend wants to know if he can use the Vodafone USB dongle for 2G
>only? Yes, I know it will be painfully slow, but there's no 3G coverage what
>so ever where he is! So are these dongles 2G/3G? Or 3G only?

They will normally operate on both, falling back to GPRS when only a
2G network is available.

Chris

In article <fvlbbe$eco$1@aioe.org>, No-Sp@m.com says...
> Hiya, a friend wants to know if he can use the Vodafone USB dongle for 2G
> only? Yes, I know it will be painfully slow, but there's no 3G coverage what
> so ever where he is! So are these dongles 2G/3G? Or 3G only?

They will work in any area of coverage, and always utilise the highest
available network speed, so yes it will work and yes, it will be
painfully slow.
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Regards
Jon