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Is there any drawbacks to using a mobile phone as a modem for prepay broadband

  • 02-02-2010 10:43am
    #1
    estreetb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭


    Is there any drawbacks to using a mobile phone as a modem for prepay broadband

    i want to try and cut costs so would the ph as a modem have as good a signal as the usb modems.

    thanks


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  • #2
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    It would be more expensive I done it before and it dont pay i went back to seperate broadband again. Why not get a day pass with the operator they all do it round 3 euro per day...


  • #3
    estreetb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭estreetb


    modems cost 49euro so i thougth using ph might be better price wise


  • #4
    Davy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,340 CMod ✭✭✭✭Davy


    You would want a HSDPA phone, 3.6 or 7.2 Mbps


  • #5
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    3 and vodafone offer them for free check their websitehttp://www.vodafone.ie/df/mobilebroadband/gallery_details.jsp?tab=prepay


  • #6
    fuelinjection
    Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭fuelinjection


    Have a pre-pay mobile phone on Meteor and a broadband modem from "3" and I get screwed using the phone to download anything big. The 15Gigs limit I have with "3" would cost me an arm and a leg on the mobile phone.

    Depends how much you use it I suppose.


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