I Died A Little Inside Yesterday
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I bought a Pre-Paid USB Mobile Broadband Dongle from Telstra. I haven't had anything to do with Telstra since (I think) December 1997. I need wireless access to support customers when On Call and I'm no where near network connectivity. I desperately wanted to use any provider but Telstra, but providers with good deals have absolute shite coverage and connectivity (ie Vodafone), and Optus (my preferred provider) is just too dear on purchasing Data top ups. So here I am with a Telstra dongle and I just feel so dirty.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote:
I Died A Little Inside Yesterday
You can get tablets to help with that you know.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
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I bought a Pre-Paid USB Mobile Broadband Dongle from Telstra. I haven't had anything to do with Telstra since (I think) December 1997. I need wireless access to support customers when On Call and I'm no where near network connectivity. I desperately wanted to use any provider but Telstra, but providers with good deals have absolute shite coverage and connectivity (ie Vodafone), and Optus (my preferred provider) is just too dear on purchasing Data top ups. So here I am with a Telstra dongle and I just feel so dirty.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
That's too bad. I have two of the Verizon MiFi cards and they both work great, either as a USB dongle or as an independent hot spot. The first one has unlimited access (since I had it before they imposed limits!), the second one only costs $10/month and has 3 GB/month limit. I use the unlimited one here at home and take the 3GB limit with me when go to The University or when I travel. They both work great everywhere in the US, but I imagine they wouldn't work at all down under. Since we're away from home all the time now, I canceled the broadband/cable TV/phone contract and we just use the cell phones and MiFi cards for internet. We haven't missed the TV at all yet. Those little MiFi things are nice. I sure hope you get a good deal from Telstra and that it actually works well.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I bought a Pre-Paid USB Mobile Broadband Dongle from Telstra. I haven't had anything to do with Telstra since (I think) December 1997. I need wireless access to support customers when On Call and I'm no where near network connectivity. I desperately wanted to use any provider but Telstra, but providers with good deals have absolute shite coverage and connectivity (ie Vodafone), and Optus (my preferred provider) is just too dear on purchasing Data top ups. So here I am with a Telstra dongle and I just feel so dirty.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
You say you don't like dealing with Telstra (and I agree) yet they provide the widest coverage so you've gone with them (so have I). Fair enough, however then you state that Optus and Vodaphone have the best deals but lousy coverage (all too true). To me, this is the nub of the problem with deregulated Telecommunications in a sparsly populated Oz. With such a large land mass and with low but concentrated population centres, providing network coverage everywhere is expensive so the Telco's like Optus and Vodaphone pick the eyes out of the market, leaving the more regulated Telstra to foot the bill for a greater coverage via higher fees to their customers. I believe we really should have one, really excellent, well provided network. Instead of ugly phone towers on top of everything from tall buildings to fruit shops! With the one network provider wholesaling to the various Telco's at a regulated and fair price. The current situation is a farce, especially if you just happen to be one of the poor sods whose house is alongside yet another phone tower.
Peter Hayward Ngarkat Technologies South Australia,
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I have to admit, their service of late has been really good. I really think things are changing there.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I bought a Pre-Paid USB Mobile Broadband Dongle from Telstra. I haven't had anything to do with Telstra since (I think) December 1997. I need wireless access to support customers when On Call and I'm no where near network connectivity. I desperately wanted to use any provider but Telstra, but providers with good deals have absolute shite coverage and connectivity (ie Vodafone), and Optus (my preferred provider) is just too dear on purchasing Data top ups. So here I am with a Telstra dongle and I just feel so dirty.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Does it work?
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I have to admit, their service of late has been really good. I really think things are changing there.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Oh there you go. Now Mick is well and truly screwed. "Graused-by-proxy".
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That's too bad. I have two of the Verizon MiFi cards and they both work great, either as a USB dongle or as an independent hot spot. The first one has unlimited access (since I had it before they imposed limits!), the second one only costs $10/month and has 3 GB/month limit. I use the unlimited one here at home and take the 3GB limit with me when go to The University or when I travel. They both work great everywhere in the US, but I imagine they wouldn't work at all down under. Since we're away from home all the time now, I canceled the broadband/cable TV/phone contract and we just use the cell phones and MiFi cards for internet. We haven't missed the TV at all yet. Those little MiFi things are nice. I sure hope you get a good deal from Telstra and that it actually works well.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:
the second one only costs $10/month and has 3 GB/month limit.
How'd you get this pricing?
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Have a business account with more than 5 lines and add an additional.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Have a business account with more than 5 lines and add an additional.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:
Have a business account with more than 5 lines and add an additional.
Those prerequisites would make the base price seem cheap even if I moved my personal line over. :sigh:
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You'd have to check with Verizon to see what kind of deal they'd give, but I had a cell phone for my business, then added my wife with another cell phone. After that I added another line here, so we'd have a local area code number. Early on I added the MiFi USB device for use when I travel, and now I added a second one so my wife can use one while I travel with the other. On the one hand, the speed isn't quite what it was with AT&T Uverse, but it's adequate. And since we need at least the 2 cell phones and 1 MiFi anyway, the incremental cost is cheaper to add the extra cell and the extra MiFi than it is to get an AT&T line and DSL. Once I finish up here and move back home, I'll consider getting the hard wired service back, just for speed.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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You'd have to check with Verizon to see what kind of deal they'd give, but I had a cell phone for my business, then added my wife with another cell phone. After that I added another line here, so we'd have a local area code number. Early on I added the MiFi USB device for use when I travel, and now I added a second one so my wife can use one while I travel with the other. On the one hand, the speed isn't quite what it was with AT&T Uverse, but it's adequate. And since we need at least the 2 cell phones and 1 MiFi anyway, the incremental cost is cheaper to add the extra cell and the extra MiFi than it is to get an AT&T line and DSL. Once I finish up here and move back home, I'll consider getting the hard wired service back, just for speed.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
With a single dumbphone on the minimum voice plan and without even a texting plan, I doubt I'd be able to get much out of VZW in terms of extra discount. And at present cutting the landline isn't an option for me at all. I'm probably going to upgrade my cable from 5 to 7.5MB down to stream 720p youtube (currently I need to let it buffer most of the way first), and an evening of even low res video is a few hundred MB of data. That's not the show stopper though. Outlook is using ~2GB down/day. I have a large gmail/imap account and an NNTP feed (3rd party plugin); both of them consume several MB each time I do a manual update; however changing them from syncing every 5 minutes to every 10 didn't affect my hourly data rate at all. :confused: I've expended more effort than I expected I would in tracking this down already; and as long as my ISP doesn't make an issue don't intend to look farther; but wireless data is a non-starter under that sort of load.
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