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...
thanks
andy
has anyone got?
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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.
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.
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.
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...
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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