absolute rubbish - waste of £20 - will not install on my laptop - guru help ablosutely useless
O2 Mobile Broadband Reviews
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The speed connection is very slow although i asked an 02 rep beforehand whether there was a good connection signal in my area. He replied 'very good'. Obviously not. I do not think it is good value for money and when data runs out you can top it back up again, but you have to re-start it every time and save any documents currently open. Which loses the web pages you were on. It also takes a long time to get initially connected and when you have deadlines to meet, the last thing you need is slow browsing and half an hour set-up time.
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Initially I was quite impressed with the O2 pay and go dongle I bought for a trip to London. Unfortunately after a few hours of use the 02 website claimed I had used all 4GB of my data allowance and stopped allowing me access to any websites. How I am supposed to have used that much in what amounts to no more than three or four hours surfing the web (no video, audio or downloading large files) beggars belief.
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Before purchasing an O2 Mobile Broadband Dongle, I was horrified to see so many negative reviews. Despite this, and being an O2 customer, I purchased a Pay & Go dongle anyway and have been amazed. The installation was simple, registered and immediately had my double usage applied and now have speeds far better than 3 mobile. I had doubts at first as I checked my postcode using the text postcode check service on the dongle box and I was advised not to use the dongle... again, I did it anyway and as mentioned now have superior mobile Internet from O2 so would highly recommend the service to anyone.
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I bought the £10.20 O2 dongle and got the 1gb data plus the promised extra 1gb data when i registered, pin number sent to my mobile phone ,only used 500mb so far so heres hoping. So they must have listened and got their act together or got knuckles rapped. As for free WI-FI local BTOPENZONE home/hub and BTFON WI-FI hotspot didnt work think its only ones that they list that work. It could be a good stop gap.
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I did register for the double data on my pay&go dongle and recieved the data. I have been happy with o2,,But i keep losing the signal and cant connect to bt wifi openzone. I think o2 is overpriced for what you get. I am going to change to 3 for a new laptop and 15gb data allowance.
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O2 Mobile Broadband > Pay as you go.
Signal keeps dropping out, despite being located very close to one of their masts.
O2 Service check says i should have very good coverage for my postcode.
Memory is cleared regular and kept to a minimum.
All Windows Updates taken care of regular.
So tell me....
Why does my internet suddenly drop connection every few minutes?
This just isn't good enough. Especially for someone who relies on the internet for a living.
My advice... Try Sky Broadband. I was trying to avoid committing to a monthly bill, but where the internet is concerned, it's worth doing. The difference is HUGE. O2 mobile broadband just is not in the same league (or anywhere close). Why then, does it cost so much more??
Very unhappy, soon to be lost, customer.
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Hmm so much for getting double data for giving o2 your details! I too have done this using different mobile numbers thinking there was a problem with my phone and yep, you guessed it, not my phone thats at fault but o2, going to email them and see if i get any response! Not happy at all
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I have an O2 dongle . I applied for their double data package which I would get , so they say ,
every 3 weeks . I filled in my details 16 times and waited for the return PIN .
Guess what ....NOTHING !!!!
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I have 02 dongle for 1990.euro a month which was fine until two bills ago bill went up to 64 euros then this month 155 euros. Am doing nothing different I do not download films of music. There was even charges for days out of country My dongle was not loaned to anyone and am only one in house. On ringing o2 they insisted their bill were 100% accurate and as much as called me a liar and must have loaned my dongle. Does this sound familiar to anyone or is there any way of proving dongle not used by user
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I have both 02 and vodaphone mobile broadband. Niether are better than the other although the o2 dongle has just packed in after less than 12 months. Unfortunatley Mobile broadband has not come of age and is in fact not yet fit for purpose. You wont beleive me!! and will buy anyway just as I did. I can therfore only urge you to start with a pay as you go. My experience has been awful. With either dongle even with an "excellent" signal sat under the mast in my motorhome the speed is insuficient to do internet banking and even emails are hit and miss. I now just find the nearest library or wi-fi hotspot.
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I recently swapped from 3 mobile broadband to O2. I wish I hadn't they have no coverage in the 2 main places I need to use it and won't refund (I only checked after 30 days so they are within their rights).
However, their customer service has been attrocious since, and I object to their claim to being "better connected". It simply isn't true.
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Stay away from the O2 dongle. It will save you years off your life...
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I bought a pay as you go dongle in the O2 shop. I was told that if I am in a bt openzone wifi hotspot the connection will be free and I will not be charged through my data allowance. However after only 4 hours (streaming) the data allowance was used up even though I had connected to a bt openzone wifi hotspot. When I called O2 customer 'support' they told me that the free wifi allowance does not work on macs. Another example of goods being sold by misrepresenting the facts and/ or witholding crucial info. that limits free usage. Afterall its not as if macs are unpopular! Its the last time I buy from 02- they have turned into another carphone warehouse type of outfit with on the ball sales staff craftily selling you a con or at least being negligent about what you should know before you decide to buy or not. Im up for a class action but there are too many different types of complaints unfortunately...
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just bought this piece of cr0p yesterday and im yet to get a signal...i took it back to the shop i bought it from, asking for a refund and the staff there fobbed me off saying that i had to go to the other o2 shop 6 miles away if i wanted a refund......so i got to this shop and what do ya know? they said the same thing...both shops where passing the buck...i demanded a refund there and then and was told i had to take it to the shop i bought it from....they give me a free data card as way of compensation but failed to credit it lol....frustration isnt the word for my mood atm...i see that after reading many reveiws on different websites that i am not alone with this problem of o2s shoddy products and terrible customer service.....i have been an o2 mobile customer from the beginning but after today i am changing providers.....people...do yourselves a favour...DO NOT BUY AN O2 DONGLE...YOU WILL HAVE PROBLEMS AND WILL GET NO HELP. BEWARE OF O2.
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I bought a 02 dongle last year in 2010 and like some of you have stated the data allowance was indeed 3gb. After some time they posted on the 02 home page limited time only and that it would be dropping to just 2gb. If I had any idea this was going to happen I would have never got it. Oh then they say its 2gb how come its infact 1.9gb we all need to tackle this as a whole.
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I was very happy to have solved my connectivity crisis by signing up to o2's £12.50/month 3 GB limit mobile broadband package in February of 2010. I was so pleased with my dongle that I leant it to a friend while I was away for a month. Upon my return, I discovered that he had exceeded the download limit by 4 GB.
Of course I expected some kind of excess usage charge, in line with those levied on mobile phone contracts. To my shock and horror my bill for that month included an excess of £750.
If I had been made aware that I was liable to charges of this great magnitude, I would never have loaned the device.
I have tried many times to come to an understanding with o2 customer services, and every time I hear the same phrases - 'the bill is correct', and 'it is the customers responsibility to read the contract before signing'.
I have pored though the fine print of the contract and the only reference to excess charging is an instruction to refer to the o2 website. I had to call customer services again to ask how to navigate this impenetrable labyrinth of pages and links to find the notification of excess charging, and it took myself and Steve, the customer service rep about 15 mins of trial and error to get there.
This kind of stealth warning is not acceptable. (for anyone familiar with Dougls Adams' 'The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy' - "beware of the leopard")
During this frustrating lesson in UK contract law that I did not need, I have been charged an extra £250 as a termination fee bringing my bill to the princely sum of £1007.91.
Is this the mechanism by which Telefonica lines the pockets of its shareholders? I see from other posts that I am not alone in my experience.
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The dongle seems to have a mind of its own. There are times I have a good signal, but when I try to connect it says it can't connect I and should check the coverage. Other times the signal is very low and it connects no problem.
The dongle also knocks me off some connections in favor of other ones. I have tried sorting this, but I cant seem to fix it. I have to let it change me over so I can then disconnect and then reconnect. After I do that, it stops trying to change me over.
It also auto connects to some connections even though all the profiles are set to connect manually. Again, I can't get that problem fixed.
Over all I don't see it being any worse than the others I have tried (3 and T-Mobile) and in some cases it is better.
As with all other dongles out there, you get ripped off for what you pay for. With o2, that is (2GB for £15.32 a month but I guess until there is an investigation to find out why dongles are vastly more expensive (in the case of o2 this is 8 times more than a land line) -
Well if this is modern progressive technology 2011, than 02 can keep it! I have had this 02
Dongle for about 9 months now and it was ok until the last two weeks, now I am lucky if I can ever connect, yet when I bought it the network coverage for my area (Trumpington) for 02 was supposedly massive and it was ok, so what the hell has happened in the last two weeks!! I use it for my computer, so am not moving about and as I said the 02 network coverage was supposed to be excellent, It has taken me 4 yes FOUR HOURS to get connected today, I shall be speaking with 02 to be sure!! -
What O2 doesn't tell you is that there is a top up limit on pay as you go and I now find that the dongle is blocked for a whole month because I watched some old movies over the holidays. They told me to throw it away and buy another one. Strange company that bans rich people from spending money.
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I've had the O2 dongle for a while now and it's absolutely laughable! On the user interface it generally indicates that the O2 signal is "excellent". Well, bloody hell, if that's what an excellent signal is I'd hate to see a low one! More often than not it takes three, four, five, six, etc attempts to connect, despite this so-called excellent signal. When it does finally connect it often disconnects - usually right as I'm sending an email or something.
As for the speed... it's not funny, but it really is a joke. I've seen mentioned on here that the speeds are akin to dial-up from years ago. Well, that's kinda true. I'd nearly bet that my dial-up from when I first had the Internet back in '98 was faster than this piece of s**t. They have a cheek to advertise that for £15 a month you can download whatever amount of videos, songs, etc on than plan. Well, today I spent nearly 15 minutes waiting on a 2-page word document to download from my email (after about half an hour of trying to actually get the email open without the connection timing out). Forget about sending attachments!
Absolute joke, waste of money, total rip-off, TO BE AVOIDED!!!!!!!!!! -
O2 dongle has got progressively WORSE.....and THEN they have the cheek to reduce the allowance to 2GB, - NO prior warning. Keeps cutting out. VERY DISAPPOINTED......AND ANNOYED !!
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I am a Post graduate student living in Cambridge, CB4 area. I got O2 PAYG mobile broadband because I am an o2 Phone costumer and live in student housing which has no internet facilities. The monthly contract offers on the market wouldn't suit my circumstances -I will be moving out at the end of the academic year.
Broadband coverage is poor-to-average, with some occurances of no connection at all, which lasted for three consecutive days. The connection has 'crashed' on occassions, without prior warning, and then taking 30-45 minutes in some instances to get re-connected... if i'm lucky -Sometimes it wouldn't re-connect at all.
I'm dissappointed in the small data allowance (£15PM option), which only lasts me 7 days from when I top up-to-empty. I wouldn't reccommend an O2-dongle for anyone seeking heavy-every-day-usage. I am in the process of writing up a thesis, so my internet usage would mainly consist of surfing serach engines, downloading academic literature/email attachments and music (studying music) which I'm also sure, eats up the data allowance quite quickly.
Disappointed overall. Poor coverage, unreliable connection, the data allowance is too limited for my own needs and requirements, but may suit someone else who has less dependancy or need for daily online access. Idealy suited to minimal internet users as an 'on-the go' back-up for online access. -
I'm on O2 PAYG. The speed an reliability has improved from me over the last year. Unfortunately more speed is an enticement to use up your data allowance quicker! and I am disappointed they have reduced the £15 top-up to 2GB recently. I am reluctant to go onto contract because, like on most networks, you get hammered if you go over your monthly allowance. Given the choice I'd opt for lower speed to keep my usage down, but then they wouldn't get so much money off me :-)
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I had to stay at my mothers house for a few days, so I bought an 02 mobile broadband dongle so I could work on my laptop. It worked ok for one day, now for last two days it is slower than dialup 10 years ago! I phoned them and they told me some story about a local mast they have problems with or some nonsense. I am
using it in east Belfast.
Takes about 3 minutes for an html page to load, forget watching videos or anything!
Absolute rubbish, wouldnt go near them again. I use Virgin at home and its always been fine. Thats me finished with 02, a pathetic broadband service if you ask me,. -
My O2 mobile broadband has gone downhill. Last year I was impressed, but now it is usually useless. Dial up would be quicker!
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I've used O2 for a while and the speed is very variable. For the past three days it has been slower than a dial up connection and it's driving me insane. Overall they are quite unreliable and the speeds they advertise are not accurate or valid. They should be prosecuted for false advertising.
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i have had an o2 dongle for over a year .the signal is allways v.good or excellent i would recommend it to anyone
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I've been using O2 mobile broadband for a month now and I'm surprised how good it is, hardly ever the connection drops and it's fast enough. Nothing to complain about, only that I can't download anything 'cos it's too expensive.
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ive had my pay as you go dongle for 6 months ,it worked perfect for the area i live in .they then changed how you buy access ,now for the life of me i cant top my dongle up .ive had my bank cards stopped 4 times for to many attempts a trying to buy acces ,phoned up o2 ,they told me to buy acces from another pc ,ive tried my matea .very same problems ,he is on ultra fast broadband ,sick to death of it ,got around 100mb left .they actually gave me this month free due to problems im having ,every time i click on buy ,it highlights my card and says ,number not valid????
