FabSwingers.com forum: people who use mobile dongle thingys??

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

How the hell do you do it??

I use BT at home and spent the last week in a caravan somewhere near Blackpool (the website said wayyyyyy closer than it was but thats another whinge lol) and wanted to take me lappy, so I goes out and gets a payg mobile dongle thingy.

I checked it out at home first - in the garden where my normal broadband dont work

seemed fine.

Did a top up, paid for 3 gigs (means nowt to me but Steven said 3 gigs is enough to read forums for a week) HE LIED I ran out

The other problem is the thing kept cutting out and booting me, I mean how on earth am I meant to keep up to date with who has fallen out with who, if the damn dongle thingy keeps booting me offline??

So this it to the people who use the dongle things all the time - I take my hat off to you I cant imagine having to use this crappy dongle thingy all the time

mind you maybe I got a really crappy one

Shona

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

iregularly use my vodaphone dongle as i work all over the place in fact on it now on a boat in the middle of the solent mine works fine !!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Wasnt a vodaphone one so maybe it proves my point - Steven made me buy a crappy dongle thingy

Shona

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Wasnt a vodaphone one so maybe it proves my point - Steven made me buy a crappy dongle thingy

Shona

x x x

this is why i like being single ....i make my own choices..you shouldnt have listened !!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If it kept cutting you off then chances are there wasn't much of a signal where you were.

The 3g signal doesn't travel very far from the mast and is designed to expand and contract as it gets congested.

I find that Three and Orange have the best coverage for mobile broadband and as the dongles are so cheap now I use both on PAYG, just top up the one that has the stronger signal where I'm staying with work.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I dont normally listen to him about buying stuff but the guy in the shop started speaking an a different language - it might as well have been some weird star trek language for all the good it was to me

Steven on the other hand is very good at speaking in different tongues usually the ones I refuse to listen to - ohh wait that was my first clue wasnt it

Thats why I listened to him cos he *claimed* to know what the guy in the shop was talking about, mind you this is the husband who said "yes get the 12 year old a contract mobile cos its cheaper" cos the guy in the same shop said she had unlimited texts and internet minutes - reeeeaaaaalllllyyyyy??? how come I have had to pay more for her contract than mine then???

Shona

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"If it kept cutting you off then chances are there wasn't much of a signal where you were.

The 3g signal doesn't travel very far from the mast and is designed to expand and contract as it gets congested.

S. "

Ohh maybe it wasnt a crappy dongle then - it was a Three one

I got it cos Steven said it was cheap (a tenner for a 3 gig 30 days doodah) I thought 3 gigs sounds loads completly forgetting I use unlimited at home

Honestly tho it kept losing the signal and showing me the *internet explorer cannot display the page" page miffed me right off.

Might have been the rain - well that was Stevens excuse

Shona

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shona,

It depends on the coverage. Some areas have better coverage than the other. Therefore, if you are in an area that has poor coverage, then yes, you can get kicked out from time to time.

Nowadays, one of the things I do before I go camping, is to check for the mobile broadband coverage first. If the coverage is poor, then I don't bother topping up until I arrive at the site to confirm if that is truly the case.

I also look for sites with WiFi as a backup, and would pay for it if mobile BB is poor.

Good luck!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Shona,

It depends on the coverage. Some areas have better coverage than the other. Therefore, if you are in an area that has poor coverage, then yes, you can get kicked out from time to time.

I also look for sites with WiFi as a backup, and would pay for it if mobile BB is poor.

Good luck!

Pretend you're telling a 5 year old please Pearl

I understood the first bit and knew about checking it out online for the best coverage for the area.

Maybe thats where we went wrong - the website I booked the holiday thru is supposedly 8 miles from Blackpool it wasnt, I know miles and there was more than 8 from where we were and the sign for Blackpool.

Mind you that wasnt all that the website got wrong and they stupidly gave me an email address to tell them my thoughts - that was very stupid of them, well not as stupid as telling me there was loads for my daughters to do when there was nowt for them, unless they count arcades all day and night

standing there shoving 2 pences into a machine is not my idea of a holiday, even if the 7 year old did want loads of Me To You bear pin badges

As for the wifi network thing I dont think it said anything about having one at all, and my lappy never found anything not even on the train on the way back.

Which was pretty pants when we got told we were running late and would prob miss our connecting train, cos we couldnt get online to see when the next one was.

Mind you the driver did make up most of the time so wasnt all bad

Shona

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Did ya plug it in ??? xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i have a couple of friends that use three for their mobile provider and they both have real issues with signal. they're a couple and it really doesn't work for them because loui has a stall that he takes to festivals on a weekend and lauras house, that i lived in can drop signal on that network without any warning. why they're still on it i don't know. could be that you was in a bad area for signal.

i used to use a t mobile one all the time because i didn't have any other way of getting the internet and that was always hit and miss. i used to go to the park for an hour or so when the weather was nice so i could speed up the connection. it wasn't ideal, but it beat trying to use the internet on operas mobile browser application, and i got a laptop with the deal too. the dongle comes in handy if the internet goes down too, but i don't live too far away from a t mobile mast. in fact, it's right outside my work door

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

A work colleague uses Vodafone for this, and he never seems to have any issues.

Surely it's the same as mobile phone signals....some areas are better than others? (unless you have an Apple, in which case it's all 4 bars...everywhere....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mobile broadband coverage is not the same as mobile phone coverage.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ooo, mine is working with excellent coverage, however, I am not in the middle of nowhere!

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

"Mobile broadband coverage is not the same as mobile phone coverage.

It isn't? Do they have separate masts then?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Did ya plug it in ??? xx

Dontcha just love women and technology hehehe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I got into debt with my normal provider and had to borrow my daughters laptop with T-mobile dongle, had exactly the same, constant no signal, puff of wind or dead calm, completely gone, left myself logged into websites including here and once took an hour to get back online to log out

Even taking it on a tour of the house didnt always help either and would never ever buy one. So glad that now ive paid the bill im back to normal

I wouldnt log onto msn whilst i had it as i couldnt trust it, just a shame some people wouldnt take the hint, plus moaning cos i wouldnt show them pictures as they are on my pc and i couldnt be bothered to put them on a CD to put on my daughters laptop, funny though how they had no pictures on their profile

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the almighty block user is a great tool on msn. has made my life a little more peaceful from time to time. if only it was people begging for pics though. drama queens, who'd have 'em?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"the almighty block user is a great tool on msn. has made my life a little more peaceful from time to time. if only it was people begging for pics though. drama queens, who'd have 'em?"

It was more that i couldnt risk logging onto msn and losing the signal midst flow but dont worry, im an expert at the block button and as its not set to log on automatically, i dont get stuck chatting to him, plus funnily enough he is rarely on it when i do log on but i did have to block him from my mobile, more though for his boring same old questions zzzzzzzzzzzzz

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If it kept cutting you off then chances are there wasn't much of a signal where you were.

The 3g signal doesn't travel very far from the mast and is designed to expand and contract as it gets congested.

S. "

Where as we had a Three dongle and found it to not be so good, use 02 now and had no problems at all.

Tried Orange also and found them to be the biggest rip off.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

we've got a TMobile dongle which works fine in towns etc, but recently we went to Yorkshire, just south of Scarborough and it was worse than useless

Granted, the place was pretty isolated, but we thought broadband coverage would cover the wilds of Yorkshire. Wrong!!

But..we don't go out into the wilds very often, and so will carry on using it.

We got a monthly contract with ours so it doesnt run out.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Did ya plug it in ??? xx

Dontcha just love women and technology hehehe

OI you pair yes I did plug it in

I even remembered to top up the thing so there

Shona

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By *nkednkinky_bbwWoman
over a year ago

cannock

i use a Three dongle all the time and have very few problems with it (apart from it costing me £15 a week cos of how much we use it).

Now and then I have to use a t-mobile one which does keep disconnecting itself. Also the t-mobile one won't let me use skype to talk to my parents in spain

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"i use a Three dongle all the time and have very few problems with it (apart from it costing me £15 a week cos of how much we use it).

Now and then I have to use a t-mobile one which does keep disconnecting itself. Also the t-mobile one won't let me use skype to talk to my parents in spain

I only pay £15 a month for unlimited access with TMobile, and I'm sure all the other providers will do a similar deal. £15 a week is a bit expensive aint it?

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By *nkednkinky_bbwWoman
over a year ago

cannock

I only pay £15 a month for unlimited access with TMobile, and I'm sure all the other providers will do a similar deal. £15 a week is a bit expensive aint it?

I can't get a contract, my ex left me in loads of debt a few yrs ago and I have ccj's

wouldn't be so bad if my teenager would keep off msn cos that seems to kill the credit more than me being on here all day.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hahaha When i went in to see who was the best for my area. I was told i was in one of the worst areas for coverage. I ended up having a choice of 02 or orange. Decided to go with orange. Now the only downside ive found. Is that it really doesnt like it when i go in the chatrooms. Freezes then loads get in the room i want. Then nothing!!!!! At fisrt i thought everyone was whispering. But after 5mins of nothing, I gave up!. Oh to have a phoneline and hub!!!!!!

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By *uckscouple2007Couple
over a year ago

Bucks

we bought an o2 dongle last year when we started traveling lots for Socials & Meets but cant say it was our best investment ... we've usually managed to get a signal but it has never met the bandwidth expectation

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By *ustyWoman
over a year ago

inverclyde

i have an orange dongle that i bought last year for when am away and it works fine, signal is brill

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When i'm away on holiday the last thing on my mind is using a computer

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By *andKCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

I suppose I can be considered greedy cos I've got two of the things, one my own (T mobile)and one work (Vodaphone)issue.

The reception can be so diggerent with them next to eachother in the hotel room. The hotel I stay in in Plymouth is a classic

1st/2nd floor can forget a signal on either and I have to pay well over the top hotel internet rates, floor 3 my own works but it is soooooooooooooooooo slow and cuts out periodically. floors 4-7 Tmobile works fine, Vodaphone seems to depend on the way the wind is blowing but hey if I get upgragded to exec room floors 8-9 then I get full connection on both no worries.

However at home vodaphone works fine most of the time but Tmobile wont even register.

funny old (mobile) world

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By *aravancoupleMan
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love

"How the hell do you do it??

I checked it out at home first - in the garden where my normal broadband dont work

seemed fine.

Did a top up, paid for 3 gigs (means nowt to me but Steven said 3 gigs is enough to read forums for a week) HE LIED I ran out

So this it to the people who use the dongle things all the time - I take my hat off to you I cant imagine having to use this crappy dongle thingy all the time

mind you maybe I got a really crappy one

Shona

x x x "

We use our 3 dongle all the time in the caravan as we are away most weekend,we have a long extension that we plug it into then hang it on the skylight, 9 times out off 10 we get a good reception.

Carol

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By *uton_coupleCouple
over a year ago

luton

O2 pay as you go in luton is fab

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

you can buy aerials which plug into a little hole in the dongle they help quite a bit you can buy outside ones to fit on caravans too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I suppose I can be considered greedy cos I've got two of the things, one my own (T mobile)and one work (Vodaphone)issue.

The reception can be so diggerent with them next to eachother in the hotel room. The hotel I stay in in Plymouth is a classic

However at home vodaphone works fine most of the time but Tmobile wont even register.

funny old (mobile) world

i borrowed my daughters laptop with T-mobile, had to ask her why she is paying for this service, it should be free as the signal is so poor, often had to take it on a tour of the house to get a signal. She cant use it at home at all, has to take it to work

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I suppose I can be considered greedy cos I've got two of the things, one my own (T mobile)and one work (Vodaphone)issue.

The reception can be so diggerent with them next to eachother in the hotel room. The hotel I stay in in Plymouth is a classic

However at home vodaphone works fine most of the time but Tmobile wont even register.

funny old (mobile) world

run this by me again ???? you borrowed your daughters laptop to go on fab ?????

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

my mobile and bb is with 3 and sometimes its great other times have been known to launch it right out the bloody window!!

the 99% coverage i think is a pure lie as in my house there only certain areas i can get a signal on both and in my mothers house i dont get bb but get phone signal albeit it poorly!

the only good thing is that bb only 15 quid a month and only twice have i ever ran out xx

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By *anndelCouple
over a year ago

farnborough hants

We use an O2 dongle and 9 times out of 10 its fine, occasionally we end up in an area where there is no coverage, but that will happen with them all. Have also used a 3 dongle from time to time as my daughter has 1 for college and that seems good as well.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I use a dongal and best value is t-mobile £15 unlimited per month.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

But saying that I have problems with msn connection but can use internet and browse.

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