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Laptop's on order - a bit of a wait for the broadband - so considering one for use until BB in & when at my parents - anyone find good deals?

Incredibly, just before I bought one, the peeps I bought my lappy from offered me one for free, no contract pay as you go £2 per meg

Lucky bugger - the only one I can get that'll work at my folk's is the Orange one & it's going to cost £150 unless I can bully them into giving me it as an upgrade instead of me upgrading my current phone......

I bought a Vodafone one last weekend.  Still waiting for my first connection.  Just exchanged the "possibly faulty" card tonight!

Sheriff

Which network card did you get  Red-Dog?

While i remember - you need to be sure you're PC has no virus/spyware infections if you use one of these cards; otherwise you may get a huge bill for all the data they use...

I got the Vodafone one

Bongo, as I understand it, you can monitor how much yu are downloading

Just managed a painfully slow GPRS connection and loaded up 2 web pages out of about 15 I tried (Blonde not being one of them).

I consider this to be progress!

Sheriff

Now fully up and running on both GPRS and 3G.  GPRS is similar to dial-up speed.  3G seemed very quick and comparable to Broadband!

It looks like it'll suit my purposes well so I'd recommend it based on my limited use so far!

Sheriff

Cheers Sherrif - now to see if I can whinge one out of Orange in exchange for not upgrading my handset.....

Just got this from Pokerstars when I asked how much data was transferred playing online:

The amount of traffic sent to and from the client depends on many
factors, including how busy the site is, and whether you keep the main
lobby or tournament lobby open (doing so increases traffic).

Once you're in a game with all lobby windows minimized, a game will
average about 10 k download per minute, and 5 k upload.  This can vary
with the speed of the game.

Each return visit to the main lobby (and opening the software for the
first time) will result in a burst download of about 300 KB, and 25 KB
uploaded.

I hope this has answered your question completely.  Please do not
hesitate to let us know any time you need anything.

Thats great info doubleup, thanks"

How many KB are there in a MB again.......

1024 red

And Meg's in a Gig.......

1024 again

Why the 24, is it something to do with the government?

it's to confuse those with the stars!!!  *a *a *a *a *a

I am not 100% sure but i guess it would have something to do with doubling 2>4>8>16>32>64>128>256>512>1024

Or dodgy maths. (Doubling......"128 - 356 - 512".....). What DO they teach in schools these days? Not like that in my day.

it's cuz of the binary conversion, 'puters use a binary code system:-
The nearest binary number to 1,000 is 2^10 or 1,024; thus 1,024 bytes was named a Kilobyte. So, although a metric "kilo" equals 1,000 (e.g. one kilogram = 1,000 grams), a binary "Kilo" equals 1,024 (e.g. one Kilobyte = 1,024 bytes)
Hope this clears it up lol

it reads 128 256 512 to me!! Maybe you need to get your eye's re-checked, you are getting old afterall!  ;D

It does read correct NOW, after some sneaky toe-rag edited it.......

Beat me to it Ifm.  ;)

James, just to be really picky, you missed the "1" off the start too.  ::)

Thats the last time i make a sandwhich for you!!

And for those reasing, it was DAMN good!

I never learned to rease

can i get away with editing again?

Huh???

Thats what I was going to say   >:?

Nope. Do what I do, put it down as a misreas.