i bought a vodafone thingy

lucky-colm

like it says i bought a vodafone thingy brought the laptop to work with me and pluged the thingy into the usb slot and presto iam on the net
bloody brilliant this thingy is
i can't believe iam getting paid while iam arsing around on the net :D
hope fully this will help pass some of the long boring days i get at work every now and then
plus my first thing i done on the net was get on to ebay to buy a car charger for my laptop its bloody brilliant
see if i didn't have this thingy i couldn't have bought that charger
(hmmmm the only reason i need the car charger is cos iam bringing the laptop to work kind of self fullfing prophercy kind of thing but who cares )

Huggles

Very Nice for you. IBTL

lucky-colm wrote: »

like it says i bought a vodafone thingy brought the laptop to work with me and pluged the thingy into the usb slot and presto iam on the net
bloody brilliant this thingy is
i can't believe iam getting paid while iam arsing around on the net :D
hope fully this will help pass some of the long boring days i get at work every now and then
plus my first thing i done on the net was get on to ebay to buy a car charger for my laptop its bloody brilliant
see if i didn't have this thingy i couldn't have bought that charger
(hmmmm the only reason i need the car charger is cos iam bringing the laptop to work kind of self fullfing prophercy kind of thing but who cares )

goodlad

Do you work for Vodafone?
GTFO!

chin_grin

Boards is not Twatter or Faecesbook.

Schism

Happy OP is happy, good for you.

Those dongles are very useful I will say as long as you can get reception and the network is up, which being fair is most of the time.

brummytom

You do know that you're paying for this dongle? A bloody fortune too

genericguy

goodlad wrote: »

Do you work for Vodafone?
GTFO!

this thread reeks of canyon arrow...

Huggles

I bet he is a civil servant lol

antodeco

I tried sticking my dongle into the usb port of my laptop before on the luas. Got arrested :pac:

Smart Bug

Wow, brilliant mobile net coverage, you sure are lucky colm.

TestTransmission

Welcome to the 21st century OP

My name is URL

Dongle

hehehehe

big b

lucky-colm wrote: »

like it says i bought a vodafone thingy brought the laptop to work with me and pluged the thingy into the usb slot and presto iam on the net
bloody brilliant this thingy is
i can't believe iam getting paid while iam arsing around on the net :D
hope fully this will help pass some of the long boring days i get at work every now and then
plus my first thing i done on the net was get on to ebay to buy a car charger for my laptop its bloody brilliant
see if i didn't have this thingy i couldn't have bought that charger
(hmmmm the only reason i need the car charger is cos iam bringing the laptop to work kind of self fullfing prophercy kind of thing but who cares )

Colm
Congratulations on your recent purchase.
You may find that if you insert said thingy into your rectum, you can download the entire internet directly to your brain.
Doing this will, however, cancel your money-back guarantee.

Schism

brummytom wrote: »

You do know that you're paying for this dongle? A bloody fortune too

I've got a 3 one. €19.99 a month, I think it's quite fair.

laoisforliam

I just rob my internet

ScumLord

It's all well and good till the first €600 bill arrives at the door because you've got a tiny download limit.

cornbb

I can't believe they are allowed to refer to these thingies as broadband tbh. This country doesn't know what real broadband is. Although I heard on the grapevine that UPC are planning on rolling out 100mbit broadband, happy days.

Schism

ScumLord wrote: »

It's all well and good till the first €600 bill arrives at the door because you've got a tiny download limit.

Fair point, I just use mine to browse, check mail and the odd bit off downloading / youtubing so I've never had that problem. It is mobile internet though and isn't really ideal for prolonged home use, that said I do realise it's the only option for some areas.

Wazdakka

antodeco wrote: »

I tried sticking my dongle into the usb port of my laptop before on the luas. Got arrested :pac:

Sticking an Intel inside sticker on her does not a laptop make..

McGrath5

Don't start downloading film's whatever you do.
Had a customer who came into us with a 700e bill for 1 month, there usuage was about 40GB!!

chin_grin

Perfect Choice wrote: »

Don't start downloading film's whatever you do.
Had a customer who came into us with a 700e bill for 1 month, there usuage was about 40GB!!

So piracy is, in fact, bad?

Hehehehehehe........."dongle".........phfffffffffffffffffffffffffft......

lucky-colm

i've got mine for €14.99 a mth cos iam already a vodafone customer and 10gb down load a month which is more than ample for what i need.


hehe and no iam not a civil servant if i was i would just get whatever department i would be working for to supply me with internet:D

Hal1

Perfect Choice wrote: »

Don't start downloading film's whatever you do.
Had a customer who came into us with a 700e bill for 1 month, there usuage was about 40GB!!

A euro a meg is it? :pac:

Ruu_Old

lucky-colm wrote: »

like it says i bought a vodafone thingy brought the laptop to work with me and pluged the thingy into the usb slot and presto iam on the net
bloody brilliant this thingy is
i can't believe iam getting paid while iam arsing around on the net :D
hope fully this will help pass some of the long boring days i get at work every now and then
plus my first thing i done on the net was get on to ebay to buy a car charger for my laptop its bloody brilliant
see if i didn't have this thingy i couldn't have bought that charger
(hmmmm the only reason i need the car charger is cos iam bringing the laptop to work kind of self fullfing prophercy kind of thing but who cares )

Colm, please come to my office at the end of the day and bring your desk contents to me for inspection. Thanks.:mad:

-The boss.

Dankoozy

cornbb wrote: »

I can't believe they are allowed to refer to these thingies as broadband tbh. This country doesn't know what real broadband is. Although I heard on the grapevine that UPC are planning on rolling out 100mbit broadband, happy days.

UPC were recently the first network to break the fabled 'net neutrality'

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/23/1921206

So you get 100mbits while...

You have the most expensive package

Nobody else in your area is using it

Not too many people in other areas are using it

You are only using HTTP

You are not uploading, I expect upstream speeds to be like 50k. Maybe just enough upstream bandwidth for ACK packets and your credit card details.

Only from 'selected sites'

The sites themselves have 100mbits to spare

You have hardly used the service in recent months

You have never used bittorrent or anything that isn't HTTP-based.

Dankoozy

Schism wrote: »

Fair point, I just use mine to browse, check mail and the odd bit off downloading / youtubing so I've never had that problem. It is mobile internet though and isn't really ideal for prolonged home use, that said I do realise it's the only option for some areas.

i'm sure its alright for continuous use if you use a couple of them on different networks at the same time.

Quazzie

cornbb wrote: »

I can't believe they are allowed to refer to these thingies as broadband tbh. This country doesn't know what real broadband is. Although I heard on the grapevine that UPC are planning on rolling out 100mbit broadband, happy days.

1 bit = 1/8 of a byte
100,000 bits = 12500 bytes
12500 bytes = 12.2kB Approx.

Not that fast really.

mickdw

Im on a vodafone stick as its the only 'broadband' available here. Its quite good. I use it all the time for boards, mail, youtube, mail including moving Acad drawings around a far bit and I never get near my download limit so suits me perfectly. Not too slow either.

dub_skav

Quazzie wrote: »

1 bit = 1/8 of a byte
100,000 bits = 12500 bytes
12500 bytes = 12.2mB Approx.

Not that fast really.

If you're going to be a nerd at least do it right.

You either forgot a lot of "0"s or a few "k"s

citizen_p

Here now brian. your suposed to be running the country.
if yuo dont stop ill tell your mammy, Ms. Cowen

Quazzie

dub_skav wrote: »

If you're going to be a nerd at least do it right.

You either forgot a lot of "0"s or a few "k"s

Correct, I had a "m" instead of a "k"

smemon

just picked up an o2 thingy today for €9.99/month - it pays to be a student ;-)

http://www.o2online.ie/wps/wcm/connect/O2/Home/Explore+Services/Broadband/Mobile+Broadband/Student+Broadband/