Mifi.

[Caran]

Bought one of these today from Argos £24.99, it's a mobile wifi connection.
We will use it on holiday in two weeks time. Has anyone else bought one and what did you think of it?

[Ann]

Sounds interesting Caran - can anyone explain if they are a good thing to have?

[ladyalex]

I have one.
It's fine for checking emails and a bit of browsing so OK for on hols.
I don't get many bytes or whatever they are and when I 've used them all up it then goes pretty slowly.

[Lie-in King]

I thought at first glance that this thread was "Milf" - must up the resolution on my screen...

[Baldric]

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CGEQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uswitch.com%2Fbroadband%2Fguides%2Fwhat_is_mifi_mobile_broadband%2F&ei=9NjzU9-2JKGm0QWajoCQAQ&;usg=AFQjCNHGnmdNHBVg98JF-sYBAToikawDNQ

[Caran]

Thank you Baldrick, very informative.

[ladyalex]

Drink taken LiK?

[Lie-in King]

Yes, thank you :-)

[ladyalex]

Thought so....

[Mamyalynne]

You can't get the staff Milady, sad really.

[Old_Geezer]

Would have thought, from the description, as if few would find a requirement for one. It seems you need a group of people all wanting to use the WiFi at the same time, wanting to run it from one person's mobile data connection. Fine if you need it, but I can't see me likely to be in that position.

Thinking about it I have been at work when someone set their mobile to generate a WiFi for the rest of us anyway, without the need for a "dongle" as far as I can recall.

[Lie-in King]

Oi! I ushed to be shtaff, good coat-hider I wash...

[Mamyalynne]

Yush yu did

[Caran]

Arguing with oh about this. He thinks it's a stop start monthly use ie log on use it log off, and the month carries on with bit part usage. I think once you log on the month counts down and 30 days later it has used up your usage.

[ethandron]

We have one at our holiday home. Our provided is 3.
With ours, we don't log in and log out. It runs from a certain date, for a month. We could in effect use all the data allowance up within that time and be left with none till it starts again. The reality is we've never managed to use it all.
We run both our iPhones and both our iPads from it, and also download kindle books whenever the fancy takes us. Suits us.

[bibblebub]

I used to use one from 3mobile as my main PC internet connection and it started out ok. However their network became far too slow to be used most of the time (even a snail would have to stop and comment on how slow it was) and so I now only have it as a reserve (have to keep it since there is another year to run on the contract).