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    Default Does anyone have experience with mobile broadband (especially in UK)?

    After having yet another night of being super pumped to work being fucked up by my shared internet refusing to give me the bandwidth for even SD streaming, I've had close to enough. I'm going to be moving out at the end of January but I'm wondering if there's a better solution to keep me going until then. So does anyone have any experience with using mobile broadband for camming? I can't find any sites talking about upload speed for dongles but judging by the download speeds a couple of packages might be able to handle it.

    I was so damn hyped to work tonight as well



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    Default Re: Does anyone have experience with mobile broadband (especially in UK)?

    I trialled camming with a 3 dongle for a couple of weeks as I have terrible upload with no hope of cable anytime soon. I got almost 2 upload with the dongle woohoo! But it dropped out every now and then. You will probably get by just about, but I don't think mobile broadband is any good long term. Look for somewhere with bt infinity x
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    Default Re: Does anyone have experience with mobile broadband (especially in UK)?

    Yeah, I'd only use it as backups for days/times I couldn't get online. Do you remember which 3 package it was you used?



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    Default Re: Does anyone have experience with mobile broadband (especially in UK)?

    3 does a decent 15gb package or you can just get PAYG. But, like Susie, mine would drop out though upload speeds were good (around 2).
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    Default Re: Does anyone have experience with mobile broadband (especially in UK)?

    Oooh ooh I will dig out the thread I made, because I worked out is was cheaper to have 2 dongles rather than topping up just one with the max allowance... Will find it in a sec..
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    Default Re: Does anyone have experience with mobile broadband (especially in UK)?

    Here's the thread http://www.stripperweb.com/forum/sho...ight=broadband

    Didn't want to bump it unnecessarily, but yeah, having trialed it now i wouldn't recommend it long term because of the drop outs x
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    Default Re: Does anyone have experience with mobile broadband (especially in UK)?

    Okay, please don't shoot me for necroing this thread... I didn't want to start a new one about the exact same thing being as this already exists.

    I'm going to have to wait a nice (shite) 4 weeks for my internet connection to be enabled at my new place, so I'm either going to have to continue camming at my parents, or use a dongle / mobile broadband at my new place until the connection gets set up.

    Has anyone had any more experience with mobile broadband since this thread? Any more light to shed on it?
    How badly did your net cut out when using it? How frequently did it happen?

    I found this: http://store.three.co.uk/Mobile_Broa...Premium_Dongle
    Apparently it's great for upload speed / streaming... Oh ok I just checked and Upload Speed: 5.76 Mbps motherFUCK! O_O

    Now, I just hope it's stable!




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    Default Re: Does anyone have experience with mobile broadband (especially in UK)?

    I used one of these regularly at one point, and it wasn't cutting out too badly... the main issue was the expense. When I had mine, the 'plan' limited me to a certain upload amount per month, and I would always go over (obviously camming is a lot more upload-heavy than whatever normal people do with their dongles). (By the way, the word 'dongle' always makes me giggle like a third-grader.... in Canada, I think we just call them an 'internet stick'.) :-)

    Anyway.... I ended up having internet bills around $200-$300 a month (and this fluctuated wildly). It was a temporary, shitty, internet-less situation, so I paid for the damn thing at the time (being able to connect to internet at all meant I could still cam, so at least I still made a profit), but yeah.... as soon as I was able to do something more cost-effective, I got rid of the damn thing. You will have to read the fine print in your plan to figure out how much your upload overages will cost you.

    Also, be aware that you will need to be in a place where you get a good signal. Basements aren't ideal.

    Anyway... sounds like you might have to go this route (if camming at your folks' doesn't work out --- wow... do mom and dad know what you do in your room? LOL!), so if your pricing structure is anything like mine was, make sure you are maximizing your "income vs streaming hours" ratio, i.e. no dicking around 'making friends' on MFC --- lots of premium viewers at once @9.99/min on SM. :-)

    Have fun, and congrats in advance on surviving a move! :-)
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    Default Re: Does anyone have experience with mobile broadband (especially in UK)?

    I used it for about a year and I wouldn't recommend it because the connection kept dropping.

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    Default Re: Does anyone have experience with mobile broadband (especially in UK)?

    Still no further on than when i posted this hun, but right now the mifi from 3 is the best option in so far as dongle's go. I got a decent speed (2 upload), but the connection dropped quite often. Oh and re pricing - buy 2 dongles or more, don't keep topping up the first one as it works out more expensive

    I am currently looking into 3g bonded solutions, which is the same as when they "bond" 2 or more asdl lines, but with dongles instead. It's not cheap though!
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    Default Re: Does anyone have experience with mobile broadband (especially in UK)?

    A possible alternative to dongles price-wise is BT Fon. My technically illiterate understanding of it is that apparently a portion of all BT customer's bandwidth is reserved for PAYG Fon customers to 'tag on'. I think that this means you have to have a neighbour who's a BT customer?????

    You just do a wireless network search for either BT Fon, BT Wifi, or BT wifi with fon (they all direct to same place). Then you pay with a card for however many days you want. 5 x 24 hour passes is £15. You can get a single 24 hour pass for £5 to try it out though.

    I used it while I was waiting for my 'real' internet supplier, and I got 4.5 download/0.5 upload, which to be honest I was surprised at because I didn't have full signal bars. I didn't cam with it though, so not sure how it goes as far as dropping signal is concerned.

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