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Business Mobile Broadband

We have created a new section of our site dedicated to business mobile broadband packages you can now compare dedicated 3G business broadband in the same way as normal mobile broadband.

Both T mobile business and vodafone business have a number of services designed specifically or the business traveler including free wi fi hot spot access and roaming bundles to allow you to use your mobile broadband abroad for more information see our mobile business broadband section.

Vodafone dongle sales increase in stores

Following vodafones £15 a month mobile broadband deal & its massive advertising campaign sales of the USB dongle device in vodafone stores are reported to have increased dramatically with one store member reporting

‘We’re selling about 50 per month now. It used to be five per month.’

This increase looks set to continue as the demand for mobile broadband continues to grow in the UK

source: Mobile Today

for more information please visit the vodafone website

New 3 Mobile Stick Modem available

Customers buying 3 Mobile broadband can now chose the new slimline USB stick instead of the standard pebble type modem . The new stick offers the same speed and performance as the traditional 3 modem but eliminates the need  for the short usb cable by plugging directly into your machine , this is likely to appeal to laptop users who are looking for the most lightweight and portable modem.

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Vodafone have been offering a similar USB stick for sometime now and has proved a great sucess for them and im sure 3 stick will be just as popular for more information please visit 3 Mobile Broadband

7.2Mbps Huawei E220 firmware upgrade

If you have Huawei E220 modem then you can update the firmware to be 7.2Mbps capable instead of the standard 3.6Mbps you can read more about it and download the updated firmware for vodafone and t mobile below

http://www.mobileconnected.co.uk/huawei-e220-72mbps-firmware-update/

http://lastmile.t-mobile.co.uk/datacardhelp/user/page.phtml?page_id=98 

Sharing your 3G Mobile Broadband

With the advent of mobile broadband and recent price cuts , 3G broadband is becoming more and more attractive to the home user particularly customers without a phone line or who are experience speed / connection issues with their adsl broadband.

Many home users now use mobile broadband to access the internet but one problem seems to be that allot of these users have more than one PC laptop xbox etc that all require internet access. At the moment the networks USB Dongle modem is aimed squarely at single laptop users and haven’t catered from these pc network users.

There are a couple of solutions however to share you 3G mobile broadband connection over your network

You can set up a traditional Internet Sharing setup http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306126 the main disadvantage of this is that one pc needs to remain powered on to act as a host

Dreytek
The second solution is to get a router from Dreytek that you can plug the USB dongle and even some mobile phones into, this with then act as a normal wireless router to allow you to share the internet with the rest of your network the devices supported by the routers are

  • Huawei E220 (T-Mobile, Vodafone, 3 etc.)
  • Telstra HSDPA USB Modem
  • 4G System XSPlug P3
  • Zapp Telemodem Z020
  • Option GlobeSurfer iCON 7.2
  • Option Globesurfer iCON
  • 4G System XSPlug P3
  • ZTE AC8700 3G
  • Benq EF91
  • Nokia N70
  • Nokia 6233
  • Nokia N95
  • LG U8380
  • Telstra Next G 3G USB
  • ZTE AC8700
  • ZTE MF62

for more information visit http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/vigor2800.html

3 Mobile Broadband on the Mac – USB drivers

A lot of people have contacted me who are having trouble installing and getting the 3 USB dongle installed on Intel based Mac’s it turns out that some additonal software needs to be installed for the bundled data card applications to work correctly. I have included links below to the files needed (the first is the USB dongle driver) – just remember they are only for Intel based Mac’s and Macbooks

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/10/10/276991/HuaweiDataCardDriver.zip

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/10/10/276991/HuaweiDataCardApp.zip