Last I heard Vodafone is the one to go for, for PAYG at least, as all the others put a 30 day expiry on your credit.

Might be outdated information though, and I'm too tired to check it out right now.

Vodafone. They are in Romania too and their services are great.

I'd have a look at if you can get one for whatever country you are going to.

The roaming charges you will hit for any of the uk ones aren't worth he cost tbh

O2 will block you from steam unless you use a vpn, 30 day expiry on credit bought.

Mobile broadband, like wired was in its infancy is not what its cracked up to be. Yes you can use it anywhere but beware of the following:

Even with a good signal you will have some packet loss, causing errors while browsing ranging from a missing picture on a page to a page failing to load altogether.

Latency is high, the best i've seen on pay&go is approximately 300ms, rendering online gaming as stressful as it is enjoyable [at least for me].

As with wired bb, the speed issue. the norm is 3.5Mb/s although 7Mb/s is fast rolling out, although you're buggered if youll ever see this speed. Best I've seen from a dongle was 150KB/s, which didn't seem to be sustainable.

The dongles I've seen appaer to share out a broadband connection at the local mast, as connected machines display a local ip address as rather that the public IP you'd expect from a machine directly hooked up to a modem. This can cause issues with programs that utilise NATing in any way.

Long story short, best bet is to borrow someones dongle and see if you can do all you'd want to when on the move before giving your cash away. Otherwise you could end up bitterly disappointed.

I have a Vodafone 3g usb stick its very good.

I can get you a 3g stick for free mate so you just need the sim.

Text me if you want one. Brand new.



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erm, 3g is alittle vague: whats its max connection speed? if its one of the newer 7.0Mb/s ones then yes please! if its not HSDPA it aint worth jack anyway though

Better question is to ask what Minty wants to use it for...

Might just be me taking a wild guess, but I doubt he's going to want to play tf2 whilst on holiday - maybe check emails and that sort of stuff, but gaming whilst away, nah...

Its a 7.2mb download 3.4 mb upload.

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