Attention Dongle Users!!!

[RichEO]

Blatant copy-pasta here but my mate seems to think this will work (UK at least):

http://www.3dongle4free.co.uk/

get it unlocked.....

buy an 02 iphone sim

top up with £10

free net for a year

I've been reading quite a few people have done this now. I've ordered and paid for the delivery, so I'll see what happens. Apparently delivery is 2-3 days, so hopefully by the weekend.

YMMV, not my fault etc etc

I have the three dongle, I've already unlocked it. What's special about an iphone SIM? Reports here plz of anyone who gets it working.

[henrik777]

If buying online remember to order via a cashback site as the payment can just under £100 for contracts.

Sandy

[titaniumbean]

poker uses it up but not loads

Poker uses up barely any traffic.

I played a roughly 7 hour session 4-8 tabling sky and logged I think 65mb.

I did the 3gb limit in just a few days watching cardrunners and deuces cracked videos with it flagrantly. Unless you are doing high bandwidth streaming you really really dont have to care one bit.

[Laxie]

Vodafone it is then.  Thanks everyone!  They are offering a 12 month contract for €19.99 with 10gb per month and I have a choice of 2 dongles.  One is free, the other is €29.99 (E180).  10gb isn't a lot, but I only need 'mobile' service maybe a few hours each week, so I'm hoping it's plenty for that. 

Can you get the vodafone pay as you go in Ireland? It's the best option for casual users. The top ups don't expire (unlike three and o2 which run out after 30 days) and you get 3GB for £15. Which may end up lasting you several months. And your not tied into any contract.

That's what I intended to do initially, but PAYG deals are non-existent in Ireland.  It's €5 per day for only 500mb and you don't get a voucher to enter.  You use it and get billed an obscene amount at the end of each month.  

http://www.vodafone.ie/df/mobilebroadband/gallery_details.jsp?tab=supplementary


Works out much cheaper for me to just get the monthly contract.  Granted, they aren't very generous with roaming charges.  Will cost me €15 per day if I use it in the UK...and that's with the monthly contract!!!

[gatso]

you can always buy a payg sim card for uk visits. will cost you less for a month than for a single day's roaming charge

[Laxie]

Can that be put into the dongle I'm getting once I land in the UK and just change back to my own one when I return home?  If so, that'd be brilliant!

[gatso]

shouldn't be a problem afaik. just stick a voda sim in your voda dongle, top it up and you should be fine

[Laxie]

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If that works, I owe you a pint or two!!!

[RichEO]

Yeah, get a vodafone pay as you go dongle, the credit won't expire and you can use it just when you are over here. It will cost you £35, but it comes with £15 credit. I doubt it's worth the hassle of getting a specific SIM and swapping the SIMs over but you could do that.

http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/catalog/compatibleDataPlanListView.jsp?dependantSkuIds=sku690026&phoneType=pre&skuType=dataDeviceSku&selection=null&initialFilters=flt_payasyougo&_requestid=293453

[Laxie]

Excellent!  One last question...hopefully.    Are they easy enough to pick up in-store once I get over there or should I order online?

[gatso]

Excellent!  One last question...hopefully.    Are they easy enough to pick up in-store once I get over there or should I order online?

straight off the shelf

Yeah, get a vodafone pay as you go dongle, the credit won't expire and you can use it just when you are over here. It will cost you £35, but it comes with £15 credit. I doubt it's worth the hassle of getting a specific SIM and swapping the SIMs over but you could do that.

hassle? the 10 second job of switching sims?

that's like buying a new phone to use in the UK rather than just putting a UK sim in your irish one

[RichEO]

I was thinking more about changing the log in details on the vodafone dashboard. But thinking in more detail, you might have to do that anyway cos it might use the same profile when you put the pay as you go one in.

And it's not like buying a new phone, it's like having an identical phone for almost free, where you don't need any of your contact information from the 1st one on the 2nd. Phone analogy don't work.

[Laxie]

OK, I lied.     Can I not just use the same details (profile) for both of them?

[gatso]

I was thinking more about changing the log in details on the vodafone dashboard. But thinking in more detail, you might have to do that anyway cos it might use the same profile when you put the pay as you go one in.

And it's not like buying a new phone, it's like having an identical phone for almost free, where you don't need any of your contact information from the 1st one on the 2nd. Phone analogy don't work.

is the dashboard in browser or is it something you need to d/l?

assuming it's in browser like the 3 one is you just set up one on ie and one on ff

[monkeyboy888]

Blatant copy-pasta here but my mate seems to think this will work (UK at least):

http://www.3dongle4free.co.uk/

get it unlocked.....

buy an 02 iphone sim

top up with £10

free net for a year

I've been reading quite a few people have done this now. I've ordered and paid for the delivery, so I'll see what happens. Apparently delivery is 2-3 days, so hopefully by the weekend.

YMMV, not my fault etc etc

I have the three dongle, I've already unlocked it. What's special about an iphone SIM? Reports here plz of anyone who gets it working.

How do you go about unlocking a dongle? Would it be something I could do myself, or is it a job for a professional?

P