Need To Use My Laptop At Work

[lankeela]

where we have no broadband. What is the best way - Argos do a dongle for £29.99 that lasts three months which seems to be the best value. Do I have to do anything with it once I've got it or is it just plug in and go? I did have a Mifi unit but it was very fiddly to get online with my previous netbook.

[andy-hughes]

Can your employers not supply you with a link - or finance the dongle to assist you?

[Ellipsis]

You may be able to set your smartphone up as a WiFi hotspot. Depending on your data contract, this could work out cheaper and/or with better connectivity than the Argos solution.

[lankeela]

No its not actually for work - I work in a private house as a carer and the residents don't have broadband but I usually use my phone to get on the internet to pass the time away at night. Just need a way of accessing it.

[lankeela]

Is that what they call tethering? Doesn't that use up my data quicker?

[woofgang]

yes and yes lankeela, but however you do it you will have to buy data. Check out which would be the cheapest

[bhg481]

I had a dongle from Vodaphone many years ago. You install some supplied software then, when you want the internet, just put the dongle into a USB socket and run the software. You can get the amount of credit you have remaining and top it up, if necessary. It wasn't a fast link, but it was a dozen years ago, so perhaps things are quicker now.

[TonyV]

Depends how close you are to a mast, and weather conditions when using a dongle.

[lankeela]

Going to give the Argos one a go and see how it works.

[albaqwerty]

dongle is ok for game playing and emails, but if you're planning on watching a film, for example, it won't last long.

Our first dongle was vodaphone and no real complaints and for some reason our second one was with 3.