Connect anywhere - sort of!
August 31st 2007 19:23
I’ve been using a Mobile Connect or, (as Vodafone calls them a ~3G USB Modem) to access the Internet when I’m away from a place where I can use a computer that’s linked directly, and it’s proved a valuable little tool.
I was a bit miffed to discover at first that while Vodafone indicates you can use it to access the Internet anywhere, (and you probably can) what they didn’t point out was that not all access is created equal. While cellphone coverage throughout the UK is pretty good overall (except that I have to walk to the front of the house I’m staying in at present because people can’t hear me if I try to talk at the back!) connections using mobile connect, which aren’t on the same cellphone system, it seems, aren’t nearly as well spread. They’re there, but the signal is often so weak that using the mc in those places is like being on a very slow dial-up. This is a pity, because when mobile connect is working properly, it’s as good as broadband anywhere. I had a conversation with someone in New
Zealand via Skype last night, using the mc, and it was superb. But here in the house we’re staying in, it’s very sluggish, so sluggish that you have to go off and do other things while you’re waiting for Internet pages to load, otherwise you’d go mad. At least it’s got me practicing the piano while I‘m waiting - because the piano is in the same room.
I was a bit miffed to discover at first that while Vodafone indicates you can use it to access the Internet anywhere, (and you probably can) what they didn’t point out was that not all access is created equal. While cellphone coverage throughout the UK is pretty good overall (except that I have to walk to the front of the house I’m staying in at present because people can’t hear me if I try to talk at the back!) connections using mobile connect, which aren’t on the same cellphone system, it seems, aren’t nearly as well spread. They’re there, but the signal is often so weak that using the mc in those places is like being on a very slow dial-up. This is a pity, because when mobile connect is working properly, it’s as good as broadband anywhere. I had a conversation with someone in New
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