Best deals for Broadband dongles

bluenose_ted

Hello

I am writing to ask for any advice on the best deals for a Broadband dongle. I would prefer not to be tied to a long-term dongle but the provider is unimportant. I rarely download music - never films or TV programmes - but I do download computer programmes (anti-virus programmes, for example).

I am on the Net very often - more than 10 hours a day, but I could cut that down - and use it to watch BBC iPlayer, things like that.

What happens, do you just pay online and they send the dongle through the post. I've never used one before and don't even know how they connect to the Internet - I've always had a landline, but I am moving to a flat where there is only a deactivated phone socket. I can't really go to a ISP because of the credit reference check which I would not pass.

Many thanks.

Bluenose

NiftyDigits

EE Osprey Pay Monthly Mobile WiFi £19.99

WiFi Device
1 month rolling contract
Recomended tariff: 15 GB of data - £20 per month
4G

You can also unlock it for use with any network's SIM for £0.99p

So if you are have problems with signal or wish to downgrade the amount of GBs that you need, you can move to the THREE network, on PAYG or a rolling monthly contract.

kwikbreaks

bluenose_ted wrote: »

I am on the Net very often - more than 10 hours a day, but I could cut that down - and use it to watch BBC iPlayer, things like that.

The 15GB deal NiftyDigits pointed you to is on the high end of capacity. You won't be watching much iPlayer on 15GB a month.

NiftyDigits

kwikbreaks wrote: »

The 15GB deal NiftyDigits pointed you to is on the high end of capacity. You won't be watching much iPlayer on 15GB a month.

There is also 25GB for £30. The OP can decide on how much iPlayer is worth to them. Perhaps they can choose the SD option.

bluenose_ted

Many thanks to you both for your replies.]

The Osprey deal sounds like a good one: Vodaphone quoted me 3GB this morning for a monthly dongle @ £16. I would just go into an Orange shop to arrange it, wouldn't I?

On their site they mention a standard credit check. I don't suppose you know what that means? Them contacting Experian or one of those companies?

Thanks again.

Blueie

NiftyDigits

bluenose_ted wrote: »

Many thanks to you both for your replies.]

The Osprey deal sounds like a good one: Vodaphone quoted me 3GB this morning for a monthly dongle @ £16. I would just go into an Orange shop to arrange it, wouldn't I?

On their site they mention a standard credit check. I don't suppose you know what that means? Them contacting Experian or one of those companies?

Thanks again.

Blueie

Should you be out on your own? Did you miss the large CURRYS logo when you clicked through? PC World too.

They'll just run a check on your bank debit card and branch address.

NiftyDigits

If you are unable to obtain even a 30 day contract. The next cheapest option will only be Prepaid 3G; wherein you can buy the Vodafone R206 MiFi for £24.95 and to unlock it for £0.99p.
Once you use up the 2GB of Vodafone data, you can purchase 6GB EE data SIMs for £15 or less.

bluenose_ted

Once again, thanks! Great advice! I'll get the Osprey, I think, as long as my wireless network card is compatible with 4G (I am waiting for the supplier to confirm) and then, when I am ready to roll in a week or two, I will contact EE or Orange and set things in motion. I suppose that's how it works?

Scrounger

bluenose_ted wrote: »

as long as my wireless network card is compatible with 4G...

Actually, your wireless network card is oblivious to 4G. :eek:

It will work fine in conjunction with the EE Osprey unit.

Scrounger

NiftyDigits

bluenose_ted wrote: »

Once again, thanks! Great advice! I'll get the Osprey, I think, as long as my wireless network card is compatible with 4G (I am waiting for the supplier to confirm) and then, when I am ready to roll in a week or two, I will contact EE or Orange and set things in motion. I suppose that's how it works?

At this point, I would begin to believe that you were 'taking the mickey'. But since you Thanked me for my posts, I should assume that you just can't get your head around it all.

In short, you do not need to contact EE/Orange/T-Mobile at all.
You click through one of the links that I have provided in posts #2, #6 or #7 and order the modem to be delivered to a store near you. You then go to that store to sign up and collect the modem.
That fact that it is 3G or 4G has no bearing on how it will connect to your laptop, as the MiFi converts the 3G/4G signal to a standard WiFi signal.

Try to follow exactly what has been written. It is not open to interpretation.
You, of course, can go your own way, but you will pay more.

kwikbreaks

IMO giving somebody links for 3G/4G dongles who clearly has zero technical competence and said up front they plan to reduce a 10 hours a day browsing habit by watching iPlayer instead is rather like giving a handgun to somebody with suicidal tendencies.