Laptop Abroad 3 dongle offer

[AndrewWimborne]

As a customer of 3 with my mobile I have today been mailed an offer on a dongle to use with my Laptop. As far as i am concerned I would not change my home provider but use this when away in the van. For £5 a month I am getting more than i need for when away in the van when normally just used for email and a little surfing.

However when abroad they will charge me £3 extra per megabyte used. When i queried with email and surfing the web use how much time this would be the gentlemen said between 5 and 10 hrs. Does anyone know if this is about right as the chap was a bit vague. please keep responses simple!!! Thanks Andrew

 

[IanMc]

Andrew

THey can not put a time against this because it depends hat email has been sent to you. If somebody send you mail with attachments then that will add to the megabytes downloaded. I have been on my mobile internet for about thirty minutes and downloaded my email. No attachements on my email and still used 4.7Mb. I would suggest you monitor it wisely or you will face a big bill when you get back. Mine costs

 

[Oldfogey]

Are you sure they mean Megabyte, not Gigabyte?

1 Gb would do lots of surfing.

1Mb would be quite restrictive, but there are ways to cut your usage.

Instead of downloading your email, spam and all, go to your ISP's online email and read your mail there, then just download any that you need to.

Set your browser not to display pictures, just the placeholders. This can save quite a lot.

Use multiple browsers adn browser tabs to keep lots of pages open when you are hunting around in a site, so you don't keep downloading the same page.

Personally, it looks a pretty good deal.

 

[Legsmaniac_374344731]

QUOTE = "Instead of downloading your email, spam and all, go to your ISP's online email and read your mail there, then just download any that you need to."

You can set your email client to download the headers only. This means you download the subject headings and sender, giving you the choice of deciding what to access/download.

 

[AndrewWimborne]

Thanks for the info. Will investigate further with 3. May continue to use McDonalds for the time being whilst abroad.

Andrew

 

[gary]

I would be very wary of paying by the Mb, using 3 I've just logged on to this forum and read your question, total 1.2Mb and that's before writing this!!

As said though you can cut down by switching off all Multimedia but place holders in 'Internet Options/Advanced/Multimedia' and downloading email headers, still, doing this and paying