Three E367 premium dongle setup

PlutoinCapricorn

After reading that 4G mobile broadband is several years away, I decided to try Three's new high speed dongle. I found one on eBay, and want to transfer my SIM with a prepaid allowance into it.

The setup booklet is not very helpful: I am not sure whether the gold side or the side with the figure three should be on top, and whether the cutoff side should be pushed in first. Should the SIM go right under the SD card slot?

Thank you for any help here.

espresso

It is obvious which way that the SIM fits into the SIM card slot so that the contacts on the SIM connect to the contact in the card slot:

PlutoinCapricorn

The SIM is in; the dongle is working but I am very disappointed as I can't detect any improvement. Websites that take a long time to load still do this. Perhaps I expected too much.

Myser

How many signal bars is the '3' utility showing?

Have you tried in another location away from where you are?

Which browser are you using?

Do you have an up-to-date anti virus program and have you run a scan recently?

[Deleted User]

Try going to https://www.speedtest.net and doing a test. What results are you getting? Do this test 5 times, and take an average. Do the same with the old dongle.

PlutoinCapricorn

I did not explain very well!

Even with the old dongle I am very satisfied with the speed most of the time. I am upstairs, close to a window and keep dongles on the long cable. Pages load quickly for me. I usually have a lot of bars and the cyan light. I don't need the speeds that are essential for games and films. I am very lucky and delighted with the service I get.

However, there are some websites that take forever to load: they seem to have advertisements, links to twitter/facebook, google statistics and many other things. I hoped that a faster dongle might improve this, but it didn't. So far as I can tell, there is no difference at all. The actual speed I am getting doesn't matter to me, so long as I am not held up waiting for pages to load.

I have Bullguard security suite, and clear cookies and run regular scans.

Myser

If you are still having problems with certain pages but not all, it is likely that they have a lot of media content such as pictures/videos to load.

Have you tried on another connection?

I have had issues with Bullguard Security in the past - try uninstalling it and just using Microsoft Security Essentials. See if you notice an improvement in your browsing experience.

SnowTiger

PlutoinCapricorn wrote: »

However, there are some websites that take forever to load: they seem to have advertisements, links to twitter/facebook, google statistics and many other things.

Some website are slow because of hardware and/or bandwidth issues at their end. Having the fastest Internet connection in the world won't improve download speeds from them.

To counter websites that are overloaded with adverts I use Adblock Plus, which is available for Firefox and Chrome and removes the majority of adverts on most websites.

I appreciate that many websites rely on advertising revenue for funding, however some are so overloaded with adverts that they're almost impossible to use.

PlutoinCapricorn

I may do some timing experiments as a background exercise: the usual suspects are Internet Explorer, Bullguard, Google, Three Network, the dongle, my settings ...

Snow Tiger is probably right though: some websites are overloaded and are a pain. I will get the names of some of the worst ones from now on and try them with WiFi and 'real' broadband.

In the meantime I have a spare dongle , which will be useful if I get a burnout even if it is a disappointment.