Mobile wireless

I hope this is the right place to post this, I've noticed that some laptops have a built-in antenna to pick-up an internet connection when your on the fly. But what I'd like to know are the specifics about it, do you pay as you browse or do you pay something like £25 a month and you can browse the net as much as you like? Also is it like a mobile phone, so you get as much coverage as you do when browsing the net on your phone, or is it only select areas that you can pick up a connection? I think that's all I'd like to know, but if i have any other questions, i'll just ask! Thanks

 

I think most are pay unlimited per month charges. I use Sprint in the US, and it costs about 40 dollars / month for unlimited WWAN.

 

Yeah. Go with Sprint. Fastest in the US if you get an EVDO Rev A card and also well priced. Verizon will have better reception and almost as good speeds (as I think they're still EVDO Rev 0). I have Sprint and I use their EVDO Rev 0 and it's pretty nice. Reception is good for me, but Verizon was better when I had it.

 

Oh right, thats good to know thanks, I don't live in the US, is $40 good for a monthly broadband connection or is it about as much as it would cost if you got broadband through your home phone line?
Also does anyone know of anyone who provides this in the UK? I think Vodaphone does, but the reception on a Vodaphone phone is really poor in the area I live in, so if their internet coverage is like the mobile phone coverage, it wont do for me. Vodaphone can't be the only provider of this service in the UK can it?

 

Last time I looked vodafon where doing it for around 65 sterling a month, that was quite a while ago though so its probably gone down quite a bit. Reason I remember is that was a worldwide flat fee, didn't matter if you where in London or Peking, the bill was the same.
It was 'unlimited' but in the small print 'unlimited' turned out to be around 1gb a month.
cheers

 

Oh right, since posting my last reply I've been on Dell's website and I think it was £25 with 1gb a month, or £40 for unlimited, I think I should wait until there are a more providers for this service before taking the plunge & having it, one thing though, if I got this on my laptop to be, is there anything that I could connect to my laptop so I can share the internet with other laptops/desktops? Or is this solely for my laptops use only?

 

With a LAN or wireless card you can set it up to act as a router with a built in DNS server, there are quite a few howto's around for it. Works well, as to 'allowed' to do it, yes you are. Even if they say you aren't (doubtfull) your private network will be invisible behind the laptop if set up correctly so they will never know.
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They have the internet outside of the US?

 

All you need to be able to get is a EV data signal on your cellphone. I have no idea if it is offered in the U.K. I use Alltel here and pay $25 on top of my cellphone bill for unlimited surfing. Your cell phone plugs into your USB port. I connect at about 280kb/sec enough speed to watch a youtube video without stopping.