though i get issues with t-mobile dongle, i prefer it over any other due to the fact that after i go over download limit (which incidently i do within hours) i can still browse and do stuff for the rest of the month.
the first dongle i had from them a few years ago was a much better deal (this being before they were bought out by orange, which may be the key here) as the download limit was 2 or 3 gb! much more realistic, sort of, BUT when you went over, the limitation only kicked in between 4pm, and midnight. meaning of course that you could keep your downloaders on and they would automatically start at midnight. and also you could buffer online video while you slept. sdaly when they got bought out by orange that all got stopped. which was a bit of a pi**er as it was the main selling point.
noticed above THAT SOME FOLK HAVE ISSUES WITH SIGNAL LOSS! here is a fix:
(there are two main types of manager window forms that t-mobile dongles can have depending on which make of dongle it is, but there is a way to do it with the one i dont have that has a mini manager window)..
1. bring up your t-mobile broadband manager window
2. click tools > options > (see list on left hand side) network > registration mode > set to manual > (below that it will say for eg t-,mobile uk 3G) > click refresh (list appears of available networks) choose either orange (or t-mobile if it was orange that came up)
> click register, it'll verify, then you just click connect! do this anytime your signal gets stuffed!
also of note is to click "network type tab just beside the reg' mode tab. but to make this part work u need to DISCONNECT! go in there and make sure (generally) that is is actually set to 3G only. you can freely change this to siut, just disconnect to make this section active, set it to , for eg, 3G and then reconnect. i've had BIG improvements just by knowing this.
for some sad arsed reason the call centre folk wont tell you much of this, when they SHOULD< its your right and your dongle.
my main issue is that their excuse for not letting you for eg view youtube once are over limit, is because the dongles arnt designed for heavy usage. this int quite true. i've had is EASILY running up to 2.5mb per second, and they say its merely for laptop mobile usage etc... well, folk watch youtube on virgin trains and thats a t-mobile connection.
i would like to find a get-round for this. there is NO real reason why there should be a linit at all, as a dongle wont let so much traffic thru it anyhow.
i think it'll be a matter of time before we get a ryan air of the dongle world.
all said and done, i find it is the best deal, no other deal lets you continue to connect after your limit expires. and other networks like 3 keep disconnecting in the middle of important tasks ANYWHERE in the country. t-mobile GENERALLY isnt too bad that way. many of the complainers on that issue havnt spent much time on other network dongle to really know.
best thing for t-mobile to do, is screw ornage and go back to the unlimited between midnight and 4pm.
happy, but a little frustrated
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the person above who asked about gaming!!! here is my experience, and i sincerely hope no t-mobile staff are reading a steal the ability to do thi away from me...
need for speed world (online driving game) first time you download the logon console and run it, it takes AGE (hours) to download the initial setup business, HOWEVER< once you let it go through that, each time only takes around 30 seconds for it to load the stuff it needs to initialise it.
then when you click "enter world" it does take anywhere from 30secs to 2 minutes for the world to load, and a little bit of time each time you teleport to races.
the game runs fine. occasionally wen driving very fast it seems you drive faster than the road loads, but i've had WORSE on a PS2 actually.
IT WORK VERY WELL for need for speed world.
also i use secondlife! it took me ages to get secondlife running with a dongle, and finally with t-mobile i find i can use secondlife when i am over my limit!!! cool
however, some features disbale. i cant initiate instant messaging in it, some one has to message me first. but i can ask them to do so on public chat!
i cant bring up folks profiles, but no big deal. and accasionally some worlds in secondlife take a hell of a long time to load. and in-world lag can really play mad tricks. but considering the tiny little huwai dongle, its really doing ok for its capabilities. secondlife is a humdinger anyhow.
using msn wont always work after download limit, even though the above games can! so not sure why that should be, and most alternative msn clients (pijin, aMSN) wont work wen over limit at all.
there do appear to be times when suddenyl and apparently unexpectadly the flow into your dongle speeds RIGHT up and you can do anything! so obviously at these times do, and grab all you can!! woopeee! then a few hours later BUMP, back to "normal".
and remeber, ALL mobile broadband companies use huweii dongles, so rubbishing thse ones for many of the reasons above is a bit naff. experiment with the settings (keep a notebook to remember original settings incase you do a blooper) see what works, you wont harm it..
and for folk who moan about constantly breaking dongles, i have had t-mobile dongles for a few years, and NO PROBLEMO! but when i visit friends with kids or teens, they move their setup around too often passing it around, andbumping the dongle while its in the USB port. this is just dumb, and you just cant blame the dongle for that kind of abuse. bl**dy hell.
back to the point, GAMING..
iof it is a flash game on a web page, it wont work (when over limit) but proper online games like need for speed world, and secondlife will! albiet clumsily, but give them a break!
hope thesee types of connectors have competators soon so we start to get better and faster speeds, and that the carriers (t-mobile, 3, o2 etc) start to stop taking the piss and genuilny give us competative pricing...
we can get FULL BROADBAND for our home PCs MUCH MUCH MUCH cheaper than this, in fact UNLIMITED and mega MB speeds, so what REALLY is the excuse for the downside of mobile broadband... PHONES now have a better performance, and NO LIMITS like the dongles do (but this is company policy NOT the dongles performance, technically)
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i bought my tmobile dongle n i have tryd everything to unblock it but it just keeps saying it has sent me my activation pin wen it hasnt carnt evan get on the lottery sight coz its blocked
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Absolutely terrible Dongle, ive had nothing buttrouble getting it back on when losing signal, i wouldnt recomend buying t mobile dongles at all. ive now bought one from 3 network, its great,no problems,and is fast too. Andy
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sick of my connection, actually thought i'd been hacked and someone had messed up my computer...that's how bad things are here.
not been able to connect all day, and get a random few minutes here and there, not even used my 'allowance' yet
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Yep - I agree with fi's post... all good until 6moths ago, roundabout when they cancelled the unlimited usage between 12am and 4pm for pay as you go customers (me).
Now, streaming videos is painful (see fi's post) and your allowance runs out dead quick too.
Unless your only interested in browsing simply constructed pages forget it...
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do not bother to even try t-mobile. have used it for 2 years - all good until 6 months ago. Now I can't even watch a little video clip. Download speed goes from reasonable to a big
fat 00.00 within about 30 seconds. I am on contract with them but intend to challenge them on that because as far as I am concerned they are not honouring the terms of the contract.
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T-Mobile are useless when I asked for help connecting their USB Stick 615 to my Draytek Vigor 2830n router. Draytek say it will work, T-mobile say it won't. Strange that models 610 and 620 work but not the 615.
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If you have phone insurance with T-Mobile and you have recently hhad water damage make sure you cancel your policy because there is no clear definition ofoof water damage they are thieves
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I paid £15 for a months internet with t-mobile. The man in the t-mobile shop said i would get 1gb of downloads etc but if i was using the internet between midnight and 4pm it wouldn't come out of the allowance. LOAD OF TWADDLE. Now I have used my allowance, I have tried to go on Youtube etc between midnight and 4pm. Usually it doesn't allow me to watch anything, so far I have found about 3 videos I can play. I am so angry the man in the shop lied to me. I wouldn't recommend t-mobile to anyone. They clearly have huge staff training issues in that the training is inadequate or else they train the staff to lie to the customers. Plenty of other internet providers out there so they have lost definitely lost my custom.
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Very poor quality. Anyone who praises it is probably lying as they probably work for T-mobile. I bought an expensive dongle, can't use Facebook as it keeps not loading properly (despite being fine on computers that use wired internet), there is a content lock that I was not told about at the time of purchase - and on the notice about it, the only option given to unlock it is a credit card - so I have to get myself into loads of debt just to unlock a dongle???I've e-mailed T-mobile, they're supposed to respond in 48 hours at the most - it' been a lot longer and still no reply. Don't waste your money and don't trust the fake positive reviews from T-mobile staff.
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my 3 dongle aint letting me go on any games etc.... its been like this for 5 days now...... wot the hell is going on with it?????????
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T-Mobile I have is just as I expected it to be inches away from the ex station but I'm like 20+ miles away in a blackspot area but it shuts off and no light I've updated a million times it's there end they are elitists over us controlling our every move.
My 3.6Mbps is at 1.1Mbps or 140 ish KBps download lol
To work it out type in google search your Advertised speed like 3.6Mbps then to KBps
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I have used my pay as you go t.mobile dongle for about a year now and have always had a reasonable download and browser speed
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I topped up my dongle on 6/10/11 by £15,on the 25/10/11 i had no usage so i topped up another £15 still no usage,i phoned t mobile to be told no you can not use the £15 you have put on till the 5/11/11 when your 30 day bundle expires,i am disgusted as i believed that lasted for the whole month,but NO i have to watch what i do and how much i use,because they only supply 1gw for 30 days.the person i spoke to would not shut up and constantly spoke over me i am angry and annoyed as i was told what do i expect playing games on fb,well im sorry but WHO are you to limit my 30 days and tell me what i can and cant do
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Would you believe it - cup o' tea and guess what - NO CONNECTION ! 3G NUTS 3 GROANS - 3 GROWLS - 3 G**D G*D ALMIGHTY ! THE WORST BY FAR !
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One VERY UNHAPPY BUNNY ! Not only does my PAID FOR connection keep disappearing on me you are stealing my download allowance every time you force me to reboot to the internet ! I would love to meet the people who voted you the best provider because I am sure I will meet extraterrestial life ! I have been forced to buy an alternate dongle just to ensure my ability to use the internet is not compromised ! What a rip off !
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i bought a dongle on t.mobile and bought a top up £15 on line for the first time and it lasted one day of surfing and 1 down load it is the worst broad band company i have come across so i rand t.mobile and thay give me a excuse about the usage and said if i wanted to use the dongle again i would have to buy another sim because you can onlt top up once a month well £15 for 1 day is a total scam so i went to get a 02 dongle and got a better deal and service which i am happy with i recomend 02 to anyone
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BEWARE OF T_MOBILE PAYG BROADBAND OR YOU MAY GET CONNED> I had a daily PAYG dongle for use only when needed away from home, usually for girlguiding, a registered charity, because I have much quicker broadband via my landline. I told t-mobile it would seldom be used, hence daily payg. At no time was I told that if the sim card was left dormant they would cancel the account AND KEEP ALMOST £15 credit from the sim - they say I am not entitled to any refund. Needless to say I will be cancelling all accounts with T-mobile and passing on the message to all I know who could be affected in the same way.
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Tmobile are rubbish the signal for ever dissapears for no reason then you are constantly dissconnecting and reconnecting to try get signal back
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I originally had my mobile broadband with the Three network. I thought the service and connection was pretty poor, so I bit the bullet and decided to pay a little extra and go with T-Mobile's mobile broadband. All that there is to say is that it is awful. It indicated that I have a 'full' signal, however the connection has already dropped out twice while writing this review! It is actually worse than Three! Despite the terrible customer service at Three, I think they are the best of a bad bunch!
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Ive had no problems with the signal on my payg connection but I do find it hard to understand why once the allowed download has been used why I can't pay more within 24 hours to be able to download more. Viewing a few vids on youtube or even a sky movie on low ret takes up all the allowed download, then I have to wait 24 hours from the time I topped up. I am allwed to browse and read emails but sometimes this isn't enough. Other than that I can't fault it.
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hy there i have been a t-mobile cutomer for about a year or so. and not getting a very good signal i have now pursed a 5m usb lead with repeater witch has doubled the signal twice over i have put the dongle in the window on suction pad which are alable from any good hardwear shop . ps a lot of computer shops said this wouldent work but it sure does
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Sorry but T mobile is useless utter rubbish, I have just come off the back of some reasonable service even getting consistent speed over 1GB for a couple of weeks but this was not to last. I am seeing comments saying all MBB users are subject to slow connections etc etc but why can T Mobile suddenly provide a good service for a couple of weeeks and then be as rubbish as usual surely if it can be done once it can be done again but I am thinking not..... do not touch T Mobile you will NEVER get a consistent connection
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2 hrs,ive been tryin to top up my dongle,with a credit card,no links,what a bag of crap,
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Had a t-mobile pre-paid dongle for a year as part of the laptops for schools scheme under gorden brown,so we got a Dongle from Comet with 12 month free on it, laptop bag - mouse - ect.
T-mobile are all huawei like every other company use the same company too, from 02/vodaphone/3....they all have the same make but in saying that, i had a full year of t-mobile Dongle as i said, but it would have a couple of gig per month ,then when it went over that limit you can still browse but not high content such as you-tube it was ok for light users who go on facebook or twitter as there not high content just basic programs.
I know it's bliss when your little dongle lights - up blue means your getting full 3g like an i-phone to use as an example,but all in all it was a good way to access the net for a year. I was already using a vodaphone Dongle before on my P.C and that would cost £15 per week P.A.Y.G and i am not joking for around 8 month to a year. You do get better reception in different area's in your home,but it is not for heavy downloading of any kind as it would take all your gig use up in a couple of days,these Dongles were road tested in Japan and they put a satalite many years ago and you can download any movie in 2 minites as thats where all our Tech actually comes from right down to a Dongle,after having my t-mobile that i have kept as part of the package i could not get it to work as it was on a 12 month pre-payment but after a few calls it was ok,but it got worse before i made the call i ran out and bought a Vodaphone new Dongle in March and it just would not work on my windows 7 pro but it ended up the B-T fella came the next day and now i have the new curved -Hub and it's got 4 months free broadband and it's £13.50 a quater so there are loads of Dongles out there but to end with your U.S.B port can take a hammering too as un-plugging and re-plugging these dongle's can have a adverse effect on your ports and how each U.S.B can clog - up the ports for some wierd reason.
To be honest i would never go back to a Dongle ever again as they do work fine but when they fail they fail badly and have never changed as people are still writing to the providers and still complaining constantly about how bad they really are which is partly true but it's up to the user at the end of the day. HSDMA + 3G are what mainly will pop-up and it is similar to an i-phone only the i-phone is made by Apple who are the best laptops in the world FACT. -
i am not very happy with you all at t-mobile and you're taking the micking out of me over i am deaf that you don't care i am mad with u now
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the huawei dongle is the biggest load of crap going....im on my second one, only because the first one malfunctioned and became all loose at the port connection...and now the second one has done exactly the same....useless piece of s**t...wouldnt recommend it to anyone
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i am really mad with t-mobile as i am over 18 and i am proudfully deaf can't hear the t-mobile is really silly i am member of you tube ok put it back and unlocked my t-mobile now pls
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not good at all makes u keep reloading pages so ur downloading more and using ur usage every time and when u run out ov broadband u cant top up until the date u topped last month so they av said after 3 days my monthly limit add run out impossible no usage difference than any other month just clearly raking it in and being greedy cant believe companys can still be robbing cutomers in this day and age
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