Anyone on here use one, Plug in and get Broadband anywhere, Offered by a couple of Mobile phone companies for around £15/20 a month for unlimited use.............. Any Good, worth the money..............Anyone??

I've been using it for 15 months. Main reason was to get internet access in my summer cottage where an ordinary telephone line would be too expensive to install.

This was a PC card for laptop. Later on we got the USB variety for our home PC where we earlier had relied on an old-fashioned 56 k modem.

With access to the 3G net you should expect an actual connection speed of 350 kbps or so regardless of what the ads say. Better than the cheapest ADSL offers (250 kbps) but definitely not broadband - I prefer to call it "mobile internet connection".

I don't know about 3G coverage in the UK, but I guess that in remote corners you may have to rely on the GPRS net which will give you a connection roughly equal to a 56 kbps modem.

I think it works fine, but of course that also depends on the net provider.

When I was first 'online', I used an IR link from my laptop to my Ericsson SH888 - at a mighty 9.6kbps! VERY slow, but I had 50 mins per day free on my contract(local rate ISP dial-up), which amounted to quite a sizeable porn collection over the years... *ahem*

I've been using it for 15 months. Main reason was to get internet access in my summer cottage where an ordinary telephone line would be too expensive to install.

This was a PC card for laptop. Later on we got the USB variety for our home PC where we earlier had relied on an old-fashioned 56 k modem.

With access to the 3G net you should expect an actual connection speed of 350 kbps or so regardless of what the ads say. Better than the cheapest ADSL offers (250 kbps) but definitely not broadband - I prefer to call it "mobile internet connection".

I don't know about 3G coverage in the UK, but I guess that in remote corners you may have to rely on the GPRS net which will give you a connection roughly equal to a 56 kbps modem.

I think it works fine, but of course that also depends on the net provider.

Thanks for that, Do you Know if they can be set up with a wireless router so I can run a couple of PC 's ( with wireless cards fitted ) then removeded so you can use it else where??

Apparently yes:

Vigor 3G Data Facility

But I've never tried so I don't know if there's some small print that must be read before you get one - and they aren't cheap! £135 or so...

Thanks for that Mr SwedishSkoda.......................

Thanks for that, Do you Know if they can be set up with a wireless router so I can run a couple of PC 's ( with wireless cards fitted ) then removeded so you can use it else where??

If you mean the Orange deal, then yes you can, I have a Netgear router running wireless and 4 wired.

If you mean the Orange deal, then yes you can, I have a Netgear router running wireless and 4 wired.

Thanks Moose...I didn't realise that Orange were doing this at the moment, I was thinking about " 3 " and T-Mobile.

Can't see a reason why it wouldn't work in the same way.