On Monday, July 16, 2007 12:13 PM [GMT+1=CET], [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has any body discovered how to connect to Broadband without a > landline? I use the Vodafone Mobile Connect Lite widget. That's a little box that plugs into a USB2 socket and provides wireless access similar to a mobile phone. The current model can pick up any if three Vodafone networks depending on what's floating around in your local bit of the aether. It doesn;t give true broadband speeds, but is the best aproximation I've come across. If it can get it, it tunes to the new up-grade 3GPlus network. The widget is capable of receivint his at 3.6 Mbps, although I'm told that at the moment the network can only deliver about half that. But this netwrok is fairly new and I'm not sure how widely it's diseminated. If that network's not available it will pick up the ordinary 3G network which somewhat slower. Failing either of this, it will try to connect to the GPRS network, which is slow by comparison with the others. Of course, there are some places (often quite local - in a cutting of the shadow of a building) where it can't find any of the signals. Mike Stevens narrowboat Felis Catus III web-site www.mike-stevens.co.uk Defend the waterways. Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk
