FREE Pay As You Go broadband dongle

Steve_xx

Richy23 wrote: »

Edit: Do you use it like a 'pay as you go' phone pretty much? If so, how long does a £10 top up last for example?

Yes that's about it. You buy network time. Costs are circa £10 for 1gb and the purchase normally lasts for 1 month before elapsing.

mojohey

Richy23 wrote: »

I've never used a mobile dongle before so I'm just wondering how this works So we buy the dongle for £4.95 - and obviously that then means you can use it with your laptop etc, but how do you then pay for the internet access etc?

Thank you, just a bit confused here!

Edit: Do you use it like a 'pay as you go' phone pretty much? If so, how long does a £10 top up last for example?

Thank you again!

See page 1 for data usage, prices etc

Donnie

MINI wrote: »

Regarding the security of the Credit Card payment page.
If you right click on the payment area, and check the properties of the input form you do get a secure https address......

If you manually add an 's' you do find that there is a security certificate. THe problem is that the name on the certificate, 'Micro P' doesn't match the server name.

So it appears that the payment system is secure.

delia

Just tried ordering one of these on Visa CC -transaction went through to Verified by Visa page- I entered my details then received following message:
"The credit card payment for order n°22216 has been refused."

Derek_Duval

MyUserNamesTaken wrote: »

Derek, it's not the same model. This is not a Huawei modem. DCUnlocker will work on this modem, though. You have to pay for it - around £15. If you buy an E220 Huaewei modem, it's relatively easy and free to unlock using software available on the net - so no £15 and no DCUnlocker.

Sorry, thought the number was just an equivalent. Still the same price to unlock as the vodafone modem though (E160).

parkemitch

delia wrote: »

Just tried ordering one of these on Visa CC -transaction went through to Verified by Visa page- I entered my details then received following message:
"The credit card payment for order n°22216 has been refused."

Same here, except it refused it, then I tried again and then it went to the verified page and was accepted.

chao_xian

I read about this in today's newsletter and took due note of the security warning. I was keen to get hold of the fiver dongle, so had a look for myself.

And you can order it securely.

The best thing to do to make sure your details are transmitted securely is to simply add the "s" (for secure!) after http in the web address yourself:

https:// w w w .3dongles4free.co.uk (sorry, as a new user I'm not allowed to post proper links hence the spaces)

Your browser will warn you that the "domain" of the "certificate" doesn't match the domain of the website. This simply means that the security certificate that's used to make the site secure was issued for micro-p.com and not 3dongle4free.co.uk. But as others on this thread have established micro-p are indeed legitimately selling these dongles, you can accept this and tell your browser to continue.

Despite the certificate discrepancy, you will be submitting your details over an encrypted channel to the website, so this is reasonably secure and definitely better than sending your card details over an un-encrypted channel.

The following is a bit techie, but if you want to know why this happened then I shall try to explain.

My guess is that micro-p simply did not bother to purchase a separate certificate for the 3dongles4free.co.uk site, or didn't get one in time. They could of course have sold the dongles at something like https:// w w w .micro-p.com/3dongles4free/ using their existing certificate, but no one would think that's legit either. So they went for the slightly gimmicky 3dongles4free.co.uk address, but as I said, they didn't bother buying another security certificate. And with reason, as you would buy a certificate for a site for at least a year for several hundred pounds. When this offer is running out next week, why would you waste your money to do that during a recession?

Still, bad show from micro-p for letting us risk transmitting our card details un-encrypted over the web!

Anyway, I've ordered mine and can't wait to receive it!

Hope this helps clear things up for everyone.

Cheers

cactusdust

Does anyone know if the codes are user specific? Only issue is I realised I put a typo into my email address, alas not getting the code!

Donnie

chao_xian wrote: »

I read about this in today's newsletter and took due note of the security warning. I was keen to get hold of the fiver dongle, so had a look for myself.

And you can order it securely.

The best thing to do to make sure your details are transmitted securely is to simply add the "s" (for secure!) after http in the web address yourself:

https:// w w w .3dongles4free.co.uk (sorry, as a new user I'm not allowed to post proper links hence the spaces)

Your browser will warn you that the "domain" of the "certificate" doesn't match the domain of the website. This simply means that the security certificate that's used to make the site secure was issued for micro-p.com and not 3dongle4free.co.uk. But as others on this thread have established micro-p are indeed legitimately selling these dongles, you can accept this and tell your browser to continue.

Despite the certificate discrepancy, you will be submitting your details over an encrypted channel to the website, so this is reasonably secure and definitely better than sending your card details over an un-encrypted channel.

The following is a bit techie, but if you want to know why this happened then I shall try to explain.

My guess is that micro-p simply did not bother to purchase a separate certificate for the 3dongles4free.co.uk site, or didn't get one in time. They could of course have sold the dongles at something like https:// w w w .micro-p.com/3dongles4free/ using their existing certificate, but no one would think that's legit either. So they went for the slightly gimmicky 3dongles4free.co.uk address, but as I said, they didn't bother buying another security certificate. And with reason, as you would buy a certificate for a site for at least a year for several hundred pounds. When this offer is running out next week, why would you waste your money to do that during a recession?

Still, bad show from micro-p for letting us risk transmitting our card details un-encrypted over the web!

Anyway, I've ordered mine and can't wait to receive it!

Hope this helps clear things up for everyone.

Cheers

Now if you had only read post #214... but good show for making it more clear to the readers.

radiocode

ra2000 wrote: »

Would the DCUnlocker (or maybe another unlcoker) enable this 3 dongle to work as if it were the Vodafone PAYG dongle ?
Many thanks in advance for answer.

I used a guy on ebay to unlock mine. just search for 'dongle unlock' and it comes up. I sent mine off on last wednesday evening and it came back saturday morning.

I use mine on o2 you have to change a few settings for it but it works ok .