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kevin wrote: > Hi All > > Does any one Know if the Orange (or any other of the USB Dongles) would > be a reasonable bet to replace my expensive (I feel) BT Business > Broadband. > > In Minions we get 1/2 speed Duplex on the Phone line which is 500 k and > 250 k respectively. Marginally faster than a good Modem. > > So basically about 50 to 60KB/sec? I'd say that's about 10 times more than what you'd get on a dialup modem. > For this I get charged £103 per Qtr. I also have to pay the (Business) > rent on the BT Line which is around £45 per qtr. As I have another Line > in, which the PO pays for I don't need the BT Line really. > > Ouch that's a bit pricey. My BT Total Broadband should be about £17 or so a month. Granted that is a home connection but due to the fact I'm on ADSL Max I can get up to 8 MBit (which on my line is about 7 MBit or 700KB/sec) down and around 400kbit up (or about 40KB). Doing a check with the phone number in your signature by using the BT Wholesale checker it suggests you can get a fixed rate broadband speed of about 1 Meg with an engineer visit or using ADSL Max up to about 1.5 Meg. > So looking at Orange they suggest Minions Has %80 2g Coverage (whatever > that is) and no 3G or 3G+ Would I be wise trying it? I also have not > seen anywhere on the Orange site any mention of Linux at all. > > 2G is very slow dialup speed, you'd be lucky to get any more than about 3 or 4KB/sec. 3G will give you possibly around 700KBit/sec on a good stong signal, maybe more and 3G+ is HSDPA which is said to give up to 7MBit/sec if you get a good signal but I've never got near that on my Vodafone connection. Going on what Orange have said, I would avoid going for mobile broadband, at least for now unless you could possibly get something that you can return if you can't get 3G reception. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html