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2009-09-22 , 23:17
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Originally Posted by autodrivel View Post
You might consider doing what I did.
Get a T-Mobile Mobile Broadband dongle and stick the SIM in your phone.
Suits me just fine - I rarely do more than 10 minutes of calls and a couple of dozen texts a per month.
But I need/use a LOT of data
So I took their Mobile-Broadband Max package @£15pm - calls cost 20p per min & texts are 10p each.
My monthly spend is about £18 for using the phone exactly how I want (little chat - lots of eMails/streaming/browsing/file transfer)
Also if I know I'm going to be doing extra data T-Mob will happily bump my account to a Max+ (=10GB data) for one month for £5 extra.

I'm using an unlocked e71 - and it tethers quite happily to my laptop & N810.
Should be a doddle to move to the N900
This sounds exactly like what I want! Thank you!!

I had no idea they provide a SIM with those dongles!
I imagine I shouldn't have any problems transfering my Orange number either.
 
Alex Atkin UK is offline Alex Atkin UK
2009-09-22 , 23:31
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#42
That reminds me - does the Maemo kernel support routing and does anyone know if the N900 can act as a WiFi access point?

If I can have the N900 AND carry an iPod around connected to it over WiFi, I could have the best of both worlds. I know you can do this on Windows Mobile albeit with commercial software. Linux however should be able to do it stock as long as the WiFi chipset driver supports the right mode.

Its not a deal breaker, but could be useful as you could then put the phone is the best place for reception and keep the laptop/ipod roaming, or share with several people at the same time.
 
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2009-09-23 , 01:02
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#43
Originally Posted by Faz View Post
This sounds exactly like what I want! Thank you!!

I had no idea they provide a SIM with those dongles!
I imagine I shouldn't have any problems transfering my Orange number either.
You dont even need the dongle, any old sim will do.

3 are doing a sim only data deal, 5GB for £15 on 30 day contract. And you can use Skype over 3G.
 
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2009-09-23 , 07:51
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#44
Originally Posted by Faz View Post
...I shouldn't have any problems transfering my Orange number either.
Hmmmm, I didn't try that - In theory it should be possible, but Mobile Broadband is marketed as a Data solution rather than a voice solution. So the admin systems may not be in place to handle porting a number from a voice network to a data network.

Happy to be proved wrong though
 
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2009-09-23 , 08:14
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#45
Originally Posted by Alex Atkin UK View Post
If I can have the N900 AND carry an iPod around connected to it over WiFi, I could have the best of both worlds. I know you can do this on Windows Mobile albeit with commercial software. Linux however should be able to do it stock as long as the WiFi chipset driver supports the right mode.
Linux can do it, no doubt about that. You might have to install the NAT module for iptables separately,
like it was on the N810, but it's all open source and you could even compile it yourself.
But I don't know if the iPod supports Ad-Hoc WiFi mode.
 
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2009-09-23 , 09:43
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The iPod should support ad-hoc mode as I managed to connect my iPhone to my 5800 as a wifi hotspot. It wouldn't work straight away though, had to download a wifi finder from the app store
 
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2009-09-23 , 19:50
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3 also seem to offer an add-on to their pay as you go service where you pay £5 for a month of internet access.

http://www.three.co.uk/Pay_As_You_Go...e_with_Add_ons

In their price guide they define that as 30 days with up to 2GB.

Since I rarely make phone calls on my mobile that sounds extremely good to me. In fact it's better than the equivalent contract which seems to give you 1GB / month.

It doesn't seem to say anywhere if / what restrictions apply (e.g. tethering), but I don't really need it for anything other than web browsing, mail, IM and, err, SSH to my home PC!
 

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2009-09-23 , 22:30
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Originally Posted by equim View Post
3 also seem to offer an add-on to their pay as you go service where you pay £5 for a month of internet access
I tested that offer last year, with a 3 PAYG SIM in an unlocked phone, but it seems to only work if you bought the phone from 3. They sniff the browser string. If you spoof the browser string it goes through a proxy and you get served web pages tailored to the spoofed device. Or something like that, I can't remember exactly, but it didn't work satisfactorily.

On the other hand, I had no trouble getting full internet service using Orange and T-Mobile PAYG SIM Cards.
 

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2009-09-23 , 22:55
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Originally Posted by pycage View Post
But I don't know if the iPod supports Ad-Hoc WiFi mode.
It does. I can use it with Joikuspot.

But this doesn't allow PSM...

We better get BlueTooth somehow working on iPod... ahem..

UK data plans should be outlined at http://wiki.maemo.org/Data_plans

Originally Posted by eiffel View Post
I tested that offer last year, with a 3 PAYG SIM in an unlocked phone, but it seems to only work if you bought the phone from 3. They sniff the browser string. If you spoof the browser string it goes through a proxy and you get served web pages tailored to the spoofed device. Or something like that, I can't remember exactly, but it didn't work satisfactorily.
Here my Vodafone NL was using a proxy too, by default. When I had used a browser over BlueTooth DUN I couldn't use my browser on my Nokia E71 anymore because it asked for a username and password. But you can bypass such nonsense by disabling the proxy, or using a VPN.
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2009-09-23 , 23:07
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If you get one on PAYG, how do you get the data connection? I do not understand how people can use smartphones with PAYG. What about A-GPS? Does that use network data bandwidth? I've never had a smartphone or GPS device, so I do not know.
 
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