T-mobile USB stick

ksebruce · 04-05-2008, 02:01 PM

Hi, got SWMBO a t-mobile USB stick yesterday £15 a month on 2 year contract. Installed it today piece of cake and am now on full HSDPA and we live out in the sticks. Absolutely brilliant!!!

pappajohn · 04-05-2008, 02:59 PM

thought about getting one but i dont understand download limits so i dont know if i'd get a month from it or go over the limit.

johnsandywhite · 04-05-2008, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by pappajohn

thought about getting one but i dont understand download limits so i dont know if i'd get a month from it or go over the limit.

Last summer, I converted both our son and daughter from AOL Broadband onto the THREE USB Dongle. Neither of them have gone over the limit yet. Both are VERY happy with the speed and mobility.

Digger Driver · 04-05-2008, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by pappajohn

thought about getting one but i dont understand download limits so i dont know if i'd get a month from it or go over the limit.

I have a USB stick with T-Mobile i went over the 3 gig a month limit just once!
They just sent me a letter saying if i do it the following month they would have words with me!
Thats the only time i have been over in 3 years!

ksebruce · 04-05-2008, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by pappajohn

thought about getting one but i dont understand download limits so i dont know if i'd get a month from it or go over the limit.

Hi Pappajohn 3gig is a lot unless you are interested in downloading movies or some such, a movie can be 1gb or more. Thing with t-mobile is they warn you if you are going to go over but in my view it's most unlikely.

For example a windows update might be say 2.5 mb.

There are 1024 kb's in a mb
1024 mb's in a gb

and you get 3gb

Hope this helps.

By the way on the web site they say you pay £10 for the stick. In the shop they are free along with a few pens, some lollies and a couple of packets of jelly beans.

pappajohn · 04-05-2008, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ksebruce

Hi Pappajohn 3gig is a lot unless you are interested in downloading movies or some such, a movie can be 1gb or more. Thing with t-mobile is they warn you if you are going to go over but in my view it's most unlikely.

For example a windows update might be say 2.5 mb.

There are 1024 kb's in a mb
1024 mb's in a gb

and you get 3gb

Hope this helps.

By the way on the web site they say you pay £10 for the stick. In the shop they are free along with a few pens, some lollies and a couple of packets of jelly beans.

that just did it for me.........

seriously, now i know what sort of numbers we're talking it sounds very attractive.

now the crunch question...............if i use a dongle on one of my PCs is it possible to set up a wireless home network from that PC. if not it will mean at least two dongles. one for me and one for shirl. assuming a dongle can be used on more than one computer (not at the same time obviously)

john.

ksebruce · 05-05-2008, 09:54 AM

I stand to be corrected but if all your computers are wireless enabled then I see no reason why you can't set up a home network with internet sharing.