Laptop mobile broadband for 2-3 weeks? Dongle & sim needed.

grumbler

The title says it all. It's for my friend&colleague UK holiday.
Low usage. No downloading/streaming, but some primitive online games for 5 y.o. daughter.

Will be grateful for any suggestions.

NiftyDigits

Cheapest modem £9.99

They can just use it with the common or garden T-Mobile offer or you can unlock it(99p via eBay) for them for use with any SIM.

bengalknights

Would just go ebay for modem as niftdigits suggests and then just use a 3 sim

grumbler

NiftyDigits wrote: »

They can just use it with the common or garden T-Mobile offer.

What's "garden"?

NiftyDigits

Aforementioned SIMs

NiftyDigits

grumbler wrote: »

What's "garden"?

The same....but different. Example(not a solution for your colleague)

gjchester

grumbler wrote: »

The title says it all. It's for my friend&colleague UK holiday.
Low usage. No downloading/streaming, but some primitive online games for 5 y.o. daughter.

Will be grateful for any suggestions.

What will they be using it on. They are not as cheap but a MiFi device would allow more than 1 connecting by Wifi, useful if they have a tablet and a computer, which may be more use.

They also work by WiFi so no need to set up drivers and software on the PC that may give issues when they return to home and the regular connection.

grumbler

They don't have a tablet and he refuses to have a smartphone on principle. I don't see any point in paying extra for MiFi.

gjchester

grumbler wrote: »

They don't have a tablet and he refuses to have a smartphone on principle. I don't see any point in paying extra for MiFi.

No problem, you asked for suggestions, dongles are cheaper but only useful for single devices.

If they have a Mac make sure the dongle you get has drivers for the mac, sometimes they need to be downloaded from the maker, best knowing before they leave home..