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has anyone got?

Postby surfjabroni » Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:29 pm

hi,
has anyone got the telefonica/movistar blue card that slots into laptops for internet use without a normal phone line? If so i would like to ask about how good you think it is, watching the usage, coverage etc...
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Postby surfjabroni » Mon Nov 21, 2005 12:22 pm

I found out its called 3G and is a PCMCIA card for your laptop, but there seems to be plenty of extra charges for GPRS etc...
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Postby samizdat » Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:40 pm

I ve had one in the UK, massively expensive! - great fun to impress your friends by emailing them from unlikely places i.e. on a boat, but the cost to download anything is prohibitive. I guess its OK it you use it for emails only.
BUT check where the 3G transmitters are - in the UK only 50% of country has coverage, cant imagine it any higher in Spain.


Its a different transmitter to the normal cell ones.


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Postby mivste » Sun Nov 27, 2005 2:35 am

I used Vodafone's GPRS Mobile Connect Card with my laptop for over a year before I had Avitel cable installed this April. I was quite pleased with the speed and had seldom any connection/reception problems. I learnt very early on to download my e-mails, skim through web pages very fast, multi-task, disconnect and then read everything afterwards offline. This kept costs down. However, it can be a bit pricey for downloading large files, e.g. Windows Updates, e-mail attachments, etc. (In my case, this was a good thing because it used to keep my laptop free of 'clutter'!). The added advantage was that I could take the laptop and Card anywhere and go online.

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Postby geegee » Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:55 pm

I also had Vodafone's Connect card here before telefonica deigned to fit a land line with ADSL.

I found it rather slow, coverage patchy and yes, expensive to download anything so need to be canny about how you use (last poster had good tactics). It was around 40€ a month if you kept within the very mean 50 megs ration but go over and they hammered you! We had bills of 200-250€ a month sometimes so was pretty painful...


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