3 mobile internet....
Jim on the crappy lappy ...
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dick...@ocp.com
<jim.g...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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What the �5 unlimited add on stuck in a dongle?
Jim on the crappy lappy ...
Christof Meerwald
><dick...@ocp.com> wrote in message
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> no....
Aehh, so what do you mean then?
Christof
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Steve Terry
"Christof Meerwald" <NOSPAM-see...@usenet.cmeerw.org> wrote in
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> On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 15:02:06 -0000, Jim on the crappy lappy ... wrote:
>><dick...@ocp.com> wrote in message
>> news:ra81k5d341u57to39...@4ax.com...
>>> What the �5 unlimited add on stuck in a dongle?
>> no....
>
> Aehh, so what do you mean then?
> Christof
>
>
unfortunately nothing else at all
Steve Terry
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Jim on the crappy lappy ...
"Christof Meerwald" <NOSPAM-see...@usenet.cmeerw.org> wrote in
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>><dick...@ocp.com> wrote in message
>> news:ra81k5d341u57to39...@4ax.com...
>>> What the �5 unlimited add on stuck in a dongle?
>> no....
>
> Aehh, so what do you mean then?
>
>
> Christof
>
internet option was shown on my3 page on the lappy!....but it used up my
free 150MB then went on to the �5 mobile internet as usual...sorry!
Jimbo on the netbook ...
"Steve Terry" <gfou...@tesco.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Christof Meerwald" <NOSPAM-see...@usenet.cmeerw.org> wrote in
> message news:slrnhk1hb8.tah....@msgid.cmeerw.org...
>> On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 15:02:06 -0000, Jim on the crappy lappy ... wrote:
>>><dick...@ocp.com> wrote in message
>>> news:ra81k5d341u57to39...@4ax.com...
>>>> What the �5 unlimited add on stuck in a dongle?
>>> no....
>>
>> Aehh, so what do you mean then?
>> Christof
>>
>>
> Jim is a world authority on spark transmitters,
> unfortunately nothing else at all
>
> Steve Terry
at least I don't have a red shirt ........ or was it a blouse? ..........
Roger Mills
When that happened, when did the clock start ticking for your month's worth
of internet - at the point when the 150MB was used up, or at the (presumably
earlier) time when you bought the �5 add-on?
In other words, do you lose out if you buy your add-on too soon withouit
waiting for the 150MB to be vitrually used up?
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Jim on the crappy lappy ...
"Roger Mills" <watt....@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> Jim on the crappy lappy ... <jim.g...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Christof Meerwald" <NOSPAM-see...@usenet.cmeerw.org> wrote in
>> message news:slrnhk1hb8.tah....@msgid.cmeerw.org...
>>> On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 15:02:06 -0000, Jim on the crappy lappy ... wrote:
>>>> <dick...@ocp.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:ra81k5d341u57to39...@4ax.com...
>>>>> What the �5 unlimited add on stuck in a dongle?
>>>> no....
>>>
>>> Aehh, so what do you mean then?
>>>
>>>
>>> Christof
>>>
>> false alarm ...I use an S2 with this lappy and I am sure the mobile
>> internet option was shown on my3 page on the lappy!....but it used up
>> my free 150MB then went on to the �5 mobile internet as usual...sorry!
>
>
> When that happened, when did the clock start ticking for your month's
> worth of internet - at the point when the 150MB was used up, or at the
> (presumably earlier) time when you bought the �5 add-on?
see what you mean....yes you should use up the free allowance first
.......the s2 gives you an expire date.....the m3 on the lappy
doesn't.......
>
> In other words, do you lose out if you buy your add-on too soon withouit
> waiting for the 150MB to be vitrually used up?
yes.....
Steve Terry
> Jim on the crappy lappy ... <jim.g...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Christof Meerwald" <NOSPAM-see...@usenet.cmeerw.org> wrote in
>> message news:slrnhk1hb8.tah....@msgid.cmeerw.org...
>>> On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 15:02:06 -0000, Jim on the crappy lappy ... wrote:
>>>> <dick...@ocp.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:ra81k5d341u57to39...@4ax.com...
> When that happened, when did the clock start ticking for your month's
> worth of internet - at the point when the 150MB was used up, or at the
> (presumably earlier) time when you bought the �5 add-on?
> In other words, do you lose out if you buy your add-on too soon withouit
> waiting for the 150MB to be vitrually used up?
> Roger
>
>
When i checked my My3 account details, as it should it counted down
the inclusive 150Mb first
Roger Mills
>>
> When i checked my My3 account details, as it should it counted down
> the inclusive 150Mb first
>
> Steve Terry
Yes, but that's not quite what I'm asking! I'm asking when does the add-on
expire?
Suppose you buy a �5 top-up. That gets you 150MB which expires in 90 days if
you haven't used it by then.
But suppose that you immediately convert the �5 to an add-on for a month's
internet.
Then suppose that you use up your 150MB in 2 weeks and then automatically
transfer to the add-on.
The question is, at the point of transfer, do you get a month starting at
that point - or did your month start when you bought the add-on, so that
you've only got two weeks left?
Theo Markettos
> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> Steve Terry <gfou...@tesco.net> wrote:
>
> > When i checked my My3 account details, as it should it counted down
> > the inclusive 150Mb first
I took a new SIM the other day, then added 10 pounds from a topup voucher
and bought a mobile broadband addon from my phone.
The mobile.three.co.uk page suggests that data should be used in the mobile
broadband addon first and then the 150MB free data, but this wasn't the
case. It used the 150MB first.
> The question is, at the point of transfer, do you get a month starting at
> that point - or did your month start when you bought the add-on, so that
> you've only got two weeks left?
My mobile.three.co.uk page (which I can't get at right now) says that the
mobile BB addon (which isn't quite the same as an Internet Monthly addon)
expires a month after I bought it. So I'm using the free data first instead
of my paid-for allowance.
FWIW I did a bit of comparison between the 'phone' internet and the mobile
broadband. It depends on which APN you use... if you use the APN
'3internet' you can't get at mobile.three.co.uk to buy the phone internet
addon. The DNS name exists with a public IP, but it just HTTP redirects to
www.three.co.uk/my3. That site only provides options for addons etc for
mobile broadband.
If you use the APN 'three.co.uk' the private-IP DNS hands out a local IP for
mobile.three.co.uk:
$ host mobile.three.co.uk 172.31.140.69
Using domain server:
Name: 172.31.140.69
Address: 172.31.140.69#53
Aliases:
mobile.three.co.uk has address 172.31.76.73
mobile.three.co.uk has address 172.30.140.73
mobile.three.co.uk has address 172.31.140.73
and you can access the 'phone browser' pages on that site. But of course
you're behind NAT.
Theo
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"Theo Markettos" <theom...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
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that was what I was trying to say ... :~)
Lynn W
I'm reading this thread with interest but getting confused. I have a 3
dongle that I use in Scotland at the moment this has no credit on it as it
expired at the end of October when we closed the caravan for the Winter. I
will buy a voucher (which I believe has to be for �10 at least) which will
last 30 days in April when we open the caravan. I very rarely use it all as
we only go up every other weekend. Sometimes I get to use very little
because 3 was down for the whole weekend on 3 occasions when we were up
there! Does anything in this thread affect me.
Lynn
Christof Meerwald
[...]
> we only go up every other weekend. Sometimes I get to use very little
> because 3 was down for the whole weekend on 3 occasions when we were up
> there! Does anything in this thread affect me.
It's usually cheaper to use a 3pay phone SIM (150MB Internet just for
topping up or �5 per month) in your dongle than the mobile broadband SIM
(�10 per month) that came with the dongle.
Roger Mills
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:59:11 +0000, Lynn W wrote:
> [...]
>> we only go up every other weekend. Sometimes I get to use very little
>> because 3 was down for the whole weekend on 3 occasions when we were
>> up there! Does anything in this thread affect me.
>
> It's usually cheaper to use a 3pay phone SIM (150MB Internet just for
> topping up or �5 per month) in your dongle than the mobile broadband
> SIM (�10 per month) that came with the dongle.
>
>
> Christof
It's actually better than that! With a 3Pay SIM, you get 150MB of internet
use for 'free' - valid for 90 days - every time you top up. That may well
last you for several weekends without using up any of your top-up fee.
When that's all gone, you can buy add-ons out of your top-up. As Christof
says, a month's worth of internet is only �5 compared with �10 if the use
dongle's original SIM, *but* you don't have to buy a month's worth - you can
have a week's worth for �2.50 or a day's worth for 50p. An initial �10
top-up should last you for quite a few month's worth of occasional weekends
if you buy it by the day.
You can get a *free* 3Pay SIM by following the link in the signature of any
of Steve Terry's posts. You don't need a physical 3Pay phone to top up the
SIM and buy add-ons - you can do it all on-line from your home internet
connection plus one use of the dongle. It's all explained in my post of 3rd
January to the thread "Skypephone S2, 3 Mobile Broadband and Skype". If you
can't find it, come back and I'll repeat it here.
Jimbo in the bedroom ... having a nice lie down ...
> or a day's worth for 50p.
Two days.... if you top up in the morning it lasts till the end of the next
day ......
> You don't need a physical 3Pay phone to top up the
I am finding now that I do ! .......
Jimbo in the bedroom ... having a nice lie down ...
> > You don't need a physical 3Pay phone to top up the
>
> I am finding now that I do ! .......
>
>
but I didn't before ! .........
Roger Mills
<jim.g...@googlemail.com> wrote:
What exactly is happening? How long ago was "before"?
I managed to set up a My3 account for a new 3Pay SIM about a week ago
without putting in my phone - though I did need to put it in the dongle in
order to receive the text message containing the password. I haven't
actually tried to top it up yet - but see no reason why I shouldn't be able
to do that within the My3 account which I have set up - unless you know
otherwise?!
Jimbo in the bedroom ... having a nice lie down ...
> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> Jimbo in the bedroom ... having a nice lie down ...
> <jim.g...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> You don't need a physical 3Pay phone to top up the
>>>
>>> I am finding now that I do ! .......
>>>
>>>
>> but I didn't before ! .........
>
> What exactly is happening? How long ago was "before"?
>
> I managed to set up a My3 account for a new 3Pay SIM about a week ago
> without putting in my phone - though I did need to put it in the dongle in
> order to receive the text message containing the password. I haven't
> actually tried to top it up yet - but see no reason why I shouldn't be
> able to do that within the My3 account which I have set up - unless you
> know otherwise?!
I didn't register an account... I just went to My3...in the past
Steve Terry
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(without the quotation marks)
Anyway using a phone like a Skype S2 does make the whole thing
easier than using a dongle
and you can use the S2 PC suite to send your inclusive SMS from your PC
also if you are willing to limit d/l speed to 1mbps you can stick the S2
up high and connect by Bluetooth
The S2 is so cheap and versatile you'd be daft to use a dongle on 3
Brian Mc
: What exactly is happening? How long ago was "before"?
: I managed to set up a My3 account for a new 3Pay SIM about a week ago
: without putting in my phone - though I did need to put it in the dongle in
: order to receive the text message containing the password. I haven't
: actually tried to top it up yet - but see no reason why I shouldn't be able
: to do that within the My3 account which I have set up - unless you know
: otherwise?!
I will add my experience from recent (over New Year) access to my3.
*IF* I accessed MY3 from a laptop connected by bluetooth to the three.co.uk
APN then I was presented with the 10 minimum DONGLE type topup as the *ONLY*
option. It also failed to tell me about remaining credit from my 90 days
(but typing 444 on the phone confirmed that this was still in place and
was being used!)
Once I was back accessing my3 from a different ISP I could see all the options
again (�5/topupp, 90 days credit remaining etc.)
Roger Mills
That's worth noting! I've been accessing it via my normal (PlusNet) internet
connection, and have been getting all the options. *Except* - even then - it
won't offer me anything other than the �10 monthly option for the dongle's
original Mobile BB SIM, even though I've told it that it's in a Skypephone
S2!
Roger Mills
>
> The S2 is so cheap and versatile you'd be daft to use a dongle on 3
>
> Steve Terry
Except in cases like mine, where I still can't get the b****y thing to work
with my laptop without getting BSOD crashes.
I can at least use a 3Pay SIM in the dongle to get cheaper internet access.
Steve Terry
> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> Steve Terry <gfou...@tesco.net> wrote:
>
>> The S2 is so cheap and versatile you'd be daft to use a dongle on 3
>> Steve Terry
>
> Except in cases like mine, where I still can't get the b****y thing to
> work with my laptop without getting BSOD crashes.
>
>
As the S2 modem manager was written for MS OS before Win7
some are having trouble using them on Win 7 PC's.
I've use S2's on several XP and Visa PCs without problems
Theo Markettos
> *IF* I accessed MY3 from a laptop connected by bluetooth to the three.co.uk
> APN then I was presented with the 10 minimum DONGLE type topup as the *ONLY*
> option. It also failed to tell me about remaining credit from my 90 days
> (but typing 444 on the phone confirmed that this was still in place and
> was being used!)
That's what I've seen. But you /can/ get those options from the three.co.uk
APN if you use the My3 tab on http://mobile.three.co.uk/
(By My3 I assume you're referring to http://www.three.co.uk/my3)
> Once I was back accessing my3 from a different ISP I could see all the
> options again (?5/topupp, 90 days credit remaining etc.)
Interestinger and interestinger....
Theo
Roger Mills
Steve Terry <gfou...@tesco.net> wrote:
> "Roger Mills" <watt....@googlemail.com> wrote in message
> news:7r0eeb...@mid.individual.net...
>> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
>> Steve Terry <gfou...@tesco.net> wrote:
>>
>>> The S2 is so cheap and versatile you'd be daft to use a dongle on 3
>>> Steve Terry
>>
>> Except in cases like mine, where I still can't get the b****y thing
>> to work with my laptop without getting BSOD crashes.
>>
>>
> That suggests a problem with the laptop or OS
>
Agreed!
> As the S2 modem manager was written for MS OS before Win7
> some are having trouble using them on Win 7 PC's.
>
I'm not using Win7 - or even Vista - I'm still on XP Sp2!
> I've use S2's on several XP and Visa PCs without problems
>
I can quite believe it! As reported earlier, it's fine on my desktop PC -
which has a virtually identical setup to the laptop - but that's not the one
I want to use it with!
When I connect it to the laptop, and it tries to load the relevant drivers
etc., and as soon as it gets to the part of the Composite USB device which
thinks it's a CD drive - bingo - BSOD and (usually) auto re-boot. (Sometimes
it just hangs).
As others have suggested, I've run Registry Mechanic and cleaned out all the
redundant dross from the registry - all to no avail. I *can* get it to work
on the laptop if I do a clean install of XP on a different HD, but that runs
like a dog - presumably because it's using generic drivers for all the
laptop hardware rather than optimised ones supplied by HP/Compaq. Also, it
would take for ever to load all the MS patches plus AVG and ZA and all my
applications - after which there's no guarantee that I wouldn't end up with
the same problem.
I need to find out what's wrong with my *existing* setup, and fix that - but
I'm stuck for ideas. Any further (sensible!) suggestions will be very
welcome.