[Hampshire] Crash course mobile broadband

2012-09-23 Thread Rob Malpass
Hi all Given my eyesight, I’ve never had to worry too much about smartphones or mobile broadband but a monster train journey shortly is about to change all of that so I need to know (by Tuesday if poss!) what kit I need. I have about 7 hours on a train on Tueday and need web access while

Re: [Hampshire] Crash course mobile broadband

2012-09-23 Thread Ian Park
On 23/09/12 11:48, Rob Malpass wrote: Hi all Given my eyesight, I’ve never had to worry too much about smartphones or mobile broadband but a monster train journey shortly is about to change all of that so I need to know (by Tuesday if poss!) what kit I need. I have about 7 hours on a train on

Re: [Hampshire] Crash course mobile broadband

2012-09-23 Thread Samuel Penn
On Sunday 23 September 2012 11:48:37 Rob Malpass wrote: I have about 7 hours on a train on Tueday and need web access while doing so. Thus far, I only have access to a Toshiba satellite laptop running Ubuntu. In theory, I think all I need is [1] a usb dongle from argos or somewhere similar

[Hampshire] [OT] Hardware for sale

2012-09-23 Thread Tony Whitmore
I have the following for sale: MSI K9N SLI Platinum motherboard with AMD X2 2200+ (dual core) CPU and 5GB RAM.* - £50 USB 2.0 internal card reader (supports MS/SD/MMC/CF/SM etc.) - £5 Liteon SOHW-1653S DVD/CD rewritable drive, black (PATA) - £10 Pioneer DVD-106S/ DVD-ROM drive, black (PATA).

Re: [Hampshire] Crash course mobile broadband

2012-09-23 Thread Vic
1) Will a high street dongle work with Linux? IME, they tend to be just fine. But I've yet to get my hands on one that promises to be supported :-( 2) If so – I don’t want to do any sort of contract – I want to just pay £20 for some sort of 1Gb limit and chuck it away post use –