Sim cards for Broadband

samwsmith1

espresso wrote: »

You have shown that your knowledge on this subject is zilch, so why advise others!

Why do you think that they charge a different rate for data on these SIMS?

Because I never had any problems when I used a virgin mobile add on in my dongle.

Im_just_careful

but this has been occasional use.

I use my "3" PAYG SIM both tethered by Bluetooth to a laptop and sometimes in a dongle or a MiFi type device.

This isn't everyday usage, it is more on an occasional basis when away from home.

I guess there are trigger levels of use which draw the attention of "3" to phone SIMs and I haven't hit them.

If you haven't already bought the dongle and your phone does Bluetooth that would be the approach I would recommend.

To add Bluetooth to a laptop I've used the "Belkin Mini Bluetooth Adapter * Class 2; 10M" as sold by Amazon. I previously had a different "low profile" Bluetooth adaptor but found the software a bit poor. The Belkin comes with a disk which "just worked" on XP.

jebervic

Right I got my new E586 dongle on 3 today, works great, however, I can confirm my mobile phone sim card doesn't work in this dongle, so there you go.

Snakeeyes21

espresso wrote: »

You have shown that your knowledge on this subject is zilch, so why advise others!

Why do you think that they charge a different rate for data on these SIMS?

I've been using a 'mobile' sim in a midi for months
on the old 5 quid for 2 gb path option, also been using the
15 quid all you can eat plan since it came out..

Maybe the truck is to get hold of one of the older sims..

jebervic

Snakeeyes21 wrote: »

I've been using a 'mobile' sim in a midi for months
on the old 5 quid for 2 gb path option, also been using the
15 quid all you can eat plan since it came out..

Maybe the truck is to get hold of one of the older sims..

well they dont work in an E586, they do work in other dongles ive used but not this one

jebervic

The chip part of the mobile phone sim is larger than the BB sim