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Re: [LUG] Best mobile broadband coverage for train route to London?

 

Thanks.

Can you use SMS on the E220 on Linux?

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On Monday 09 June 2008 18:19:09 Rob Beard wrote:
> Dave Berkeley wrote:
> > Looks like I might have to make the journey from Plymouth to London (via
> > Westbury) on a regular basis. I'll need some connectivity on the journey.
> >
> > I know there was some discussion about the Huawei E220 USB Modem a while
> > ago. Does anyone have any recommendations / warnings on a suitable Linux
> > friendly mobile broadband service that gives good coverage on this route?
> >
> > Low running costs, and short contract are a priority too.
>
> Three Mobile broadband on Pay As You Go is pretty reasonable if you
> don't need mega amounts of bandwidth, prices start from £10 which would
> give you 1GB allowance which lasts for 30 days/until you're allowance is
> up (if you use the allowance within the 30 days you can top up again).
>
> Modems start at about £50 for the Huawei E220 but they do smaller USB
> pen drive size modems (not sure if they work though).
>
> The advantage of Three is that if you can't get a 3G/HSDPA signal you go
> down to GPRS and GSM speeds so you should have coverage for most if not
> all of the journey (I don't do this journey so I'm not exactly sure
> where and where isn't covered).  You do have about 3 days to return the
> modem if it turns out not to work (it's in the instructions, and I'm
> sure the Three Store staff could advise).
>
> > I'll be using it with a ThinkPad running Ubuntu. So I suppose I could use
> > a cardbus card instead of USB.
>
> If you can find a 3G cardbus modem cheap enough then that would probably
> work too, all you would need is a SIM card then (IIRC you'd have to call
> Three to get them to turn on the mobile broadband in this case).
>
> There are other options available such as Vodafone and T-Mobile which I
> think are fairly comparable in price but I'm not sure if they do it on
> PAYG and I'm not sure what their connection is like because I haven't
> used them for mobile data.
>
> Hope this helps a bit anyway.
>
> Rob



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