Dongles?

NiftyDigits

Lexxx wrote: »

O2 adviser said i did need wireless connection to work for a dongle to work

Is thay not the case?

Have you heard of "Too many cooks spoil the broth"

I have already told you. If you choose not to listen, that is your prerogative.
But please don't come back to insult our intelligence....because you have already been advised..
So if you you would like to go forward in discussing which item to purchase, feel free.
If you don't trust the info you are given here, why are you coming back?

Lexxx

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Have you heard of "Too many cooks spoil the broth"

I have already told you. If you choose not to listen, that is your prerogative.
But please don't come back to insult our intelligence....because you have already been advised..
So if you you would like to go forward in discussing which item to purchase, feel free.
If you don't trust the info you are given here, why are you coming back?

?
Wow, my apologies
Was not looking to upset anyone.
I was trying to buy an o2 dongle and was advised it would not work if my wireless connection did not work.
Sorry once again

cookie365

O2 dongle: the dongle picks up the internet through 3g, and transfers it to the laptop through the USB port. It doesn't matter if the laptop can't connect using wifi, because nothing the laptop is doing is wireless. But you do need drivers for the dongle.

Mifi: again, the mifi picks up the internet through 3g. Instead of passing the internet to the laptop through the USB port, it broadcasts it wirelessly. Your laptop uses its wireless option to connect to it. You don't need drivers, but your laptops wireless has to work.

So, if your wireless doesn't work, get a dongle. If you can't install the dongle drivers, get a mifi. If you can't do either, get your laptop fixed.

Lexxx

cookie365 wrote: »

O2 dongle: the dongle picks up the internet through 3g, and transfers it to the laptop through the USB port. It doesn't matter if the laptop can't connect using wifi, because nothing the laptop is doing is wireless. But you do need drivers for the dongle.

Mifi: again, the mifi picks up the internet through 3g. Instead of passing the internet to the laptop through the USB port, it broadcasts it wirelessly. Your laptop uses its wireless option to connect to it. You don't need drivers, but your laptops wireless has to work.

So, if your wireless doesn't work, get a dongle. If you can't install the dongle drivers, get a mifi. If you can't do either, get your laptop fixed.

Thank you cookie365
I have limited knowledge and limited funds, so just trying to find a way around it.
How will i know if dongle drivers will work?
Is it just a case of buying dongle and trying it out.
Sorry in advance if its a stupid question, as i said before, this is all new to me.
Thanks

Timalay

Am I missing something here, if you are in a virgin cable area. Why not just have broadband only.

Lexxx

Timalay wrote: »

Am I missing something here, if you are in a virgin cable area. Why not just have broadband only.

Might be moving home. Not sure yet

NiftyDigits

cookie365 wrote: »

O2 dongle: the dongle picks up the internet through 3g, and transfers it to the laptop through the USB port. It doesn't matter if the laptop can't connect using wifi, because nothing the laptop is doing is wireless. But you do need drivers for the dongle.

Mifi: again, the mifi picks up the internet through 3g. Instead of passing the internet to the laptop through the USB port, it broadcasts it wirelessly. Your laptop uses its wireless option to connect to it. You don't need drivers, but your laptops wireless has to work.

So, if your wireless doesn't work, get a dongle. If you can't install the dongle drivers, get a mifi. If you can't do either, get your laptop fixed.

Thanks for taking the time to explain, but you have this wrong and anyway I have already explained to the OP that you can use a MiFi plugged in or wireless. So whether the wifi card is working or not is not an issue.
Plug it in via USB and it can act as a dongle/USB modem. Not plugged in and you can use it as a Hotspot.



I think this is just a case of in one ear and out of the other.

What the OP was doing in an O2 shop, nobody knows.

They were told to look through my previous posts, which would have led them to online deals via Quidco with THREE and Orange....but somehow they ended up in an O2 shop.

A waste of energy in trying to explain I surmise.

To the OP...Stay out of the way of salesmen, absorb what you are told here and act accordingly.

Lexxx

Seriously? not necessary.
The info i recieved from o2 i recieved online before i got on here
If there were a 'salesperson' they would have told me to buy the dongle not warn me against.

My apologies next time i feel the need to go into an o2 shop i will be sure to ask your permission first.

NiftyDigits

Lexxx wrote: »

Seriously? not necessary.
The info i recieved from o2 i recieved online before i got on here
If there were a 'salesperson' they would have told me to buy the dongle not warn me against.

My apologies next time i feel the need to go into an o2 shop i will be sure to ask your permission first.

I'm rapping my knuckles on your head right now. Wake up! Drink some coffee, but do whatever you need to do before you make a silly mistake.

You can do whatever you need to do, but you are wasting our time in not reading and digesting and then coming back and writing silly things.

Forget about O2 and their ridiculous advice on this occasion. Apart from anything else, you would be paying too much for too little. Now, how about you listen before I just let you go to make another mistake?

Buy a recommended package via Quidco. If you don't wish to take heed of what you are told here, why ask in the first place?

I show you how to get 1GB of data for less than £4 and you go to O2 to pay £10.21 per GB. Why would you do that?
So yes...ask my permission first.

Lexxx

The way you are carry on at me right now feels like u are the sales person.
I am trying to get info from different people and check it all out and make my own decesion.....
as i said before what u said was unnecessary