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Thanks. Can you use SMS on the E220 on Linux? D On Monday 09 June 2008 18:19:09 Rob Beard wrote: > Dave Berkeley wrote: > > Looks like I might have to make the journey from Plymouth to London (via > > Westbury) on a regular basis. I'll need some connectivity on the journey. > > > > I know there was some discussion about the Huawei E220 USB Modem a while > > ago. Does anyone have any recommendations / warnings on a suitable Linux > > friendly mobile broadband service that gives good coverage on this route? > > > > Low running costs, and short contract are a priority too. > > Three Mobile broadband on Pay As You Go is pretty reasonable if you > don't need mega amounts of bandwidth, prices start from £10 which would > give you 1GB allowance which lasts for 30 days/until you're allowance is > up (if you use the allowance within the 30 days you can top up again). > > Modems start at about £50 for the Huawei E220 but they do smaller USB > pen drive size modems (not sure if they work though). > > The advantage of Three is that if you can't get a 3G/HSDPA signal you go > down to GPRS and GSM speeds so you should have coverage for most if not > all of the journey (I don't do this journey so I'm not exactly sure > where and where isn't covered). You do have about 3 days to return the > modem if it turns out not to work (it's in the instructions, and I'm > sure the Three Store staff could advise). > > > I'll be using it with a ThinkPad running Ubuntu. So I suppose I could use > > a cardbus card instead of USB. > > If you can find a 3G cardbus modem cheap enough then that would probably > work too, all you would need is a SIM card then (IIRC you'd have to call > Three to get them to turn on the mobile broadband in this case). > > There are other options available such as Vodafone and T-Mobile which I > think are fairly comparable in price but I'm not sure if they do it on > PAYG and I'm not sure what their connection is like because I haven't > used them for mobile data. > > Hope this helps a bit anyway. > > Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html