3 (Three) PAYG MiFi Wireless Mobile Broadband Modems

JonJ678 said:
While I like the idea of this, I can't help but feel it's terribly undercut by sharing the internet connection from a mobile phone with a laptop. I already have internet wherever I go, as I have a phone in my pocket.
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So, I think it's a clever idea, but I don't understand where the market is.
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The difference is possibly that this is intended to allow you to connect anything to it and comes with a PAYG "contract" that allows this. If you're using your phone to provide a wifi access point then that may be contrary to the terms of your mobile contract (though, I think some do explicitly permit tethering) and it is possible (I have read reports of this) for mobile companies to spot this and deem the usage to be outside any internet allowance and add a per MB charge to the account ... though in reality it seems this rarely happens.
 
Mattus said:
And not everybody can afford / wants a phone which is capable of tethering / connection sharing. This is a cheap alternative.
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My Nokia can with an app I bought. But Virgin internet speeds are slower then 3s. Also my phone battery goes down insanely quick with the application on.

At my grans, I can't get a signal on my phone anyway with Virgin, while in at least a few places in the house I did with the MiFi.

Received my 3GB pre-paid sim card today :)
 
I has a 10 Gb per month bundle on my T mobile tariff including modem + VOIP use :D

Internet everywhere, every minute, everyday. Its not very fast but it runs MMOs just fine.

I had to pay for the easy tether app to use it on my Android phone though, but its super easy once setup, plug phone into computer, and it connects to the net immediately.
 
bhavv said:
I has a 10 Gb per month bundle on my T mobile tariff including modem + VOIP use :D

Internet everywhere, every minute, everyday. Its not very fast but it runs MMOs just fine.

I had to pay for the easy tether app to use it on my Android phone though, but its super easy once setup, plug phone into computer, and it connects to the net immediately.
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Yes, but to get this you must be paying for an extra "mobile broadband" add-on to your phone tarrif ... and looking at the TMob website then to get tethering and VOIP added today you'll be paying an extra £22.50/month + this is subject to TMobs new "unlimitted surfing but streaming capped at 1GB/month" fair usage policy for the "mobile broadband max" add-on.
 
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