Darren
I have pretty much discarded the tethering idea for reasons you point out as well as that my Macbook seems to not want to link by Bluetooth to the iphone Interesting suggestion about virgin which I will look at My only concern about that is whether they will want to tie me to a 12 month contract if I am only going to rent for 6 months potentially I had a good look the Vodafone website yesterday and found a FAQ indicating a specific USB dongle if you have a mac DF Dr David Fox MFOM (GMC 3313497) Consultant occupational physician Serco occupational health Boundary House Middle Lane Birmingham B47 6LW T +44 (0) 8452600690 F +44 (0) 8450946513 [email protected] www.serco.com <http://www.serco.com> <http://www.serco.com/> This e-mail and any attachments are for the intended addressee(s) only and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not a named addressee, do not use, retain or disclose such information. This email is not guaranteed to be free from viruses and does not bind Serco in any contract or obligation. Serco Limited. Registered in England and Wales. No: 242246 Registered Office: Serco House,16 Bartley Wood Business Park, Hook, Hampshire RG27 9UY United Kingdom. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Darren Morgan Sent: 11 March 2010 17:35 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [sussex_mug] advice Hi Dr Fox, Official tethering using iPhone is expensive and restricts you to 3G speedzzzzzzz. http://shop.o2.co.uk/update/internet.html Unofficial tethering still has the same speed problem and O2 will probably be alerted by your consumption. Not sure what they'd do about it. I've only ever used it as a quick fix, usually when staying in £15-per-day-for-internet-mickey-taking hotels. I don't know of anyone using it as their primary internet connection. Darren On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 4:03 PM, David Fox (Doctor) <[email protected]> wrote: Thank you for all the suggestions so far I won't be able to get a landline/cable broadband without hooking up to BT which I don't particularly want to do as I will be renting a flat for 6 months Therefore I think I am stuck with mobile broadband I have used a Vodafone datacard on a PC which generally seems to have been reliable I have thought about tethering the Macbook via Bluetooth to my iphone.......does anyone access the internet in that way? Dr David Fox MFOM (GMC 3313497) Consultant occupational physician Serco occupational health Boundary House Middle Lane Birmingham B47 6LW T +44 (0) 8452600690 F +44 (0) 8450946513 [email protected] www.serco.com <http://www.serco.com> <http://www.serco.com/> This e-mail and any attachments are for the intended addressee(s) only and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not a named addressee, do not use, retain or disclose such information. This email is not guaranteed to be free from viruses and does not bind Serco in any contract or obligation. Serco Limited. Registered in England and Wales. No: 242246 Registered Office: Serco House,16 Bartley Wood Business Park, Hook, Hampshire RG27 9UY United Kingdom. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of andrew lancaster Sent: 11 March 2010 15:30 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [sussex_mug] advice I use a 3 mobile dongle on my boat - it seems to work just fine and speeds are adequate. I'm sure a landline would be better all round though. Andrew On 11 Mar 2010, at 3:20 pm, Paul Howard wrote: The Vodafone software doesn't work with Snow Leopard - you have to install it as a modem and do some fiddling. 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