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I have limited knowledge and limited funds, so just trying to find a way around it.
How will i know if dongle drivers will work?
Is it just a case of buying dongle and trying it out.
Sorry in advance if its a stupid question, as i said before, this is all new to me.
Thanks
This is the reason why I'm trying to slap you awake before you do something silly.
If you look at my post history you will find a 30 day contract with Orange that you can order online via Quidco. £10 for the MiFi and £17.50 for the 2GB of data contract(already double what you would get at O2). As soon as you have ordered and the order has been confirmed, contact Orange in order to stop the contract running any longer than the 30 days. You should still be eligible for Quidco cashback of £10.
Once received, pop on to eBay to purchase the unlock code for your new MiFi, costing 99p.
So a total price of £18.49 for an unlocked Mifi and 2GB of data for 30 days.
In time for the next month, order the 3GB of data over 90 days SIM card to which I linked, costing less than £12. So now instead of paying O2, £10.21 per GB, you will pay less than £4 per GB.
With our help you will enter the THREE connection details within your new Mifi and off you go. Now you can use the connection not only for your laptop, but any other machine with WiFi capability. All for the price of the cheapest dongle that you could find anyway.0 -
The way you are carry on at me right now feels like u are the sales person.
I am trying to get info from different people and check it all out and make my own decesion.....
as i said before what u said was unnecessary
So what have you achieved? Conflicting info and more confusion, because you have no idea.
You are lucky that the O2 person had it completely wrong, as otherwise you would have made a silly mistake. You are lucky that I am here to correct the mistakes of others.
So anything you do from here, you have no one to blame but yourself. Hope we don't see you on here later moaning about the mistakes that you made in choosing....
Good luck.
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How astonished would you be if you learned that some mifi devices have usb ports, and some don't?NiftyDigits wrote: »Thanks for taking the time to explain, but you have this wrong and anyway I have already explained to the OP that you can use a MiFi plugged in or wireless. So whether the wifi card is working or not is not an issue.
Plug it in via USB and it can act as a dongle/USB modem. Not plugged in and you can use it as a Hotspot.
I think this is just a case of in one ear and out of the other.
What the OP was doing in an O2 shop, nobody knows.
They were told to look through my previous posts, which would have led them to online deals via Quidco with THREE and Orange....but somehow they ended up in an O2 shop.
A waste of energy in trying to explain I surmise.
To the OP...Stay out of the way of salesmen, absorb what you are told here and act accordingly.
OP: there's a difference between knowing what you're talking about, and knowing it all. Be careful whose advice you blindly follow.0 -
How astonished would you be if you learned that some mifi devices have usb ports, and some don't?
OP: there's a difference between knowing what you're talking about, and knowing it all. Be careful whose advice you blindly follow.
Since both of the choices that I recommended(Huawei E5332 and Huawei E5220) have USB ports and can act as USB modems... there is no issue.
What about your 'advice'? Was that comprehensive and accurate?
It appears you are referring to yourself, as I do the research before I post.
You wouldn't catch me writing nonsense such as this:Mifi: again, the mifi picks up the internet through 3g. Instead of passing the internet to the laptop through the USB port, it broadcasts it wirelessly. Your laptop uses its wireless option to connect to it. You don't need drivers, but your laptops wireless has to work.
Erm.....no.
As an aside, perhaps you can tell us which current MiFi are missing USB ports...
Yours just looks like a sad attempt at saving face and now you have fallen flat on it.0 -
This weeks " web user " magazine has a review of three mi.fi dongles.
Maybe worth a read0 -
dazzaofdagenham wrote: »This weeks " web user " magazine has a review of three mi.fi dongles.
Maybe worth a read
I don't think the issue is of which MiFi USB modem. The OP supposedly has a fixed budget and has already been given the best advice.
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