Loads of surveys

hotchoccolatte

I'm a member of loads of paid websites, although my main income comes from completing surveys.

I'd like to get rid of broadband and the landline as I never use the landline so am paying a fair amount for something I never use and want to buy a dongle instead.

For anyone else, that uses the internet to visit a lot of paid websites and also complete a lot of surveys (including the ones where they want you to view numerous adverts, for instance) do you know how much internet is used a month by these websites?

As I'm looking for a dongle, I have no idea what size I need as I have no idea how much data the paid websites and surveys eat up. Does anyone know?

Many thanks

Wizzbang

Looking at the prices for Dongles, I don't really see how it could be cheaper. You might as well take the line rental and broadband from a cheap supplier instead. For the 1st year I was with Plusnet, I was paying less than most of the dongles on USwitch. I paid £14.11 for upfront line rental (larger one off payment but works out cheaper overall). Plus £2.50 a month for BB. Total: £16.61. You'd be hard pressed to buy a decent MB dongle for less than that.

And if you do that, then you might as well use the landline for all the free calls you get 7pm-7am and 24/7 at weekend. It would possibly be cheaper to (shock horror) ditch the mobile instead!

hotchoccolatte

Thanks for your reply.

I rarely use my mobile except to send texts.

Unfortunately where I live, there isn't much competition when it comes to broadband etc, so think our only option is BT and the landline and broadband costs us approx £35 in total.

I guess I'll have to stick with the broadband then.

Wizzbang

Where do you live? I've never heard of BT being the only option. Plusnet is part of BT. We can't get cable here, so we can't get the likes of Virgin- but there's still plenty to choose from. If you're that far in the sticks, you'd never get on with a dongle because reception would be dodgy and painfully slow.

MollyDolly

Its criminal that we are forced to take a landline at all....

hotchoccolatte

Wizzbang wrote: »

Where do you live? I've never heard of BT being the only option. Plusnet is part of BT. We can't get cable here, so we can't get the likes of Virgin- but there's still plenty to choose from. If you're that far in the sticks, you'd never get on with a dongle because reception would be dodgy and painfully slow.

I live in a village in the Yorkshire Dales. I guess we'll have to look in to it more with the different companies as two of the first we tried were Sky and Virgin and they don't do it here. Thanks