Jon > I’m looking for some information. My father in law is looking to buy a > laptop and broadband dongle. We’ve (sort of) found a laptop that we’re going > to put Jaunty onto but I’d like to know if there are any ISP’s we should > look at and also any we should avoid?
I found that the 3-mobile dongle works fine on my Asus eeepc 901 with mint gloria (aka Jaunty) on it. 3-mobile give 1gb a month at £10. (or if you are an existing customer, its £5 a month) Mint automatically found the dongle and identified the network. However, if you look at the coverage maps, and I hadn't realised this, you will see the coverage for mobile broadband is very different to the mobile phone coverage. I had stupidly assumed that of I could get a mobile phone signal I would get a broadband signal. For example I pick up no broadband signal in my office or house(6 and 20 miles south of Bath), which now that I have checked is indicated on the map as not being covered. Indeed now looking at the map, there are massive gaps in coverage, and its not just 3-mobile who have these gaps, so I would check this, as there are lots of unexpected gaps. On the outskirts of Newport in South Wales, I picked up a signal fine with the 3 dongle, but an 02 dongle couldn't find any signal. In practice, in the 18 months of owning the dongle, I have only picked up a signal three or four times. This has been across SW England, South Wales, Central Scotland and North West Scotland. In most of these cases I could pick up a good mobile phone signal, but nothing at all on broadband. Graham -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
