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Mobile Broadband Dongle - Can you Re-use

  • 10-05-2011 6:11pm
    #1
    woollysocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭


    Does anyone know if you buy a mobile broadband dongle if these can be re-used? I'll be moving to the UK in a few months so if possible I'd like to buy one which could be used when I get over there.

    Also, I'm a Linux (Ubuntu) user. Read on the Meteor site that their dongle is only supported for MS and Mac OS. Does anyone have particular recommendations for a carrier for those using Linux?

    Cheers!


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  • #2
    woollysocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭woollysocks


    woollysocks wrote: »
    Does anyone know if you buy a mobile broadband dongle if these can be re-used? I'll be moving to the UK in a few months so if possible I'd like to buy one which could be used when I get over there.

    Also, I'm a Linux (Ubuntu) user. Read on the Meteor site that their dongle is only supported for MS and Mac OS. Does anyone have particular recommendations for a carrier for those using Linux?

    Cheers!

    Just been Googling on the Linux question and found this article which hopefully will work when I get sorted. http://frontlinesms.ning.com/forum/topics/ubuntu-linux-driver-for-huawei
    Hope it proves helpful for someone on the forum.

    I reckon I'm going to go with Meteor as they have the best value out there at the moment. Perhaps there's a way to unblock the thing when I get over to the UK :D


  • #3
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,277 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    Generally carriers lock these to their network as they would do to phones. So in order to work with other sims you need to unlock the modem.


  • #4
    joefurl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 ✭joefurl


    I have a vodafone modem and i've checked with them, they're not locked.


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