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Orange mobile broadband - Help
Kiechi
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I purchased orange mobile broadband last April under the impression it would be the best option for me with my hectic life-style, always on the move. But the problem is, wherever I go the connection is terrible, it barely loads google. As advertised, the maximum speed is 3.2 mbits, however I've never reached such speeds, hell, I'd love it if it even reached 1 mbit. Would this be grounds of ending the contract prematurely? As the product is not comparable to what was advertised? I pay 40 squid a month, for a barely working connection and an idle laptop. Does anyone know any possible way of getting out of this 2 year contract prematurely w/o me having to pay anything out?
I look forward to any input!
I look forward to any input!
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not 6 months in you cant no if you had done it in the first 14 days it would have been fineReplies to posts are always welcome, If I have made a mistake in the post, I am human, tell me nicely and it will be corrected. If your reply cannot be nice, has an underlying issue, or you believe that you are God, please post in another forum. Thank you0
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Unless you can prove the dongle is faulty? Do you know anyone else with an Orange dongle who can get a better signal than you?0
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Hi Kiechi, I too have an orange broadband dongle and find it absolutley useless, Most of the time I can't even connect and when I do finally get a connection it is unbelievably slow. I am embarrassed to say that I have put up with this and paid £35 for the past ten months only calling orange on a couple of occasions ( have you tried entering orangeinternet instead of consumerbroadband or vice versa? also have you tried clicking the edge/gprs button instead of 3g? ) it doesn't make much of a difference to be honest.........I have just resigned myself to the fact that I am locked into a cr**py contract for another 8 months and that there's probably not much I can do about it???
I got a "free" laptop with the dongle which of course isn't really free at all..... the way I see it is that I am paying the £35 per month for the laptop.
Silly of me I know but to be honest I just havn't had the time to thoroughly look into this properly.
Warning to other readers... STAY AWAY FROM ORANGE BROADBAND DONGLES!!!!!..... you'd get a better connection sticking a banana in your USB!!!0 -
watson1312 wrote: »Hi Kiechi, I too have an orange broadband dongle and find it absolutley useless, Most of the time I can't even connect and when I do finally get a connection it is unbelievably slow. I am embarrassed to say that I have put up with this and paid £35 for the past ten months only calling orange on a couple of occasions ( have you tried entering orangeinternet instead of consumerbroadband or vice versa? also have you tried clicking the edge/gprs button instead of 3g? ) it doesn't make much of a difference to be honest.........I have just resigned myself to the fact that I am locked into a cr**py contract for another 8 months and that there's probably not much I can do about it???
I got a "free" laptop with the dongle which of course isn't really free at all..... the way I see it is that I am paying the £35 per month for the laptop.
Silly of me I know but to be honest I just havn't had the time to thoroughly look into this properly.
Warning to other readers... STAY AWAY FROM ORANGE BROADBAND DONGLES!!!!!..... you'd get a better connection sticking a banana in your USB!!!
I totally agree, however, unaware of clicking the GPRS button and the consumerbroadband orange thing? I wish I didn't take this out. I haven't phoned them regarding this as I imagine, I wouldn't recieve any help apart from how about standing outside the garden when you want tocheck your e-mails.0 -
A regular 1Mbps would be pretty good on most wireless dongles, you never get the theoretical maximum any more than you get 8Mbps on an ADSL line.
And unless your area receives a decent 3G signal, you won't even get that.No free lunch, and no free laptop
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