Mobile Broadband Options
May 28th, 2008Friends of our have recently bought a new laptop, it’s actually there first computer ever as up till now they have just used ones at their workplaces (people without a computer do still exist it seems!).
They also require an internet connection but since they spend the summer living in their summerhouse they really need a mobile connection.
After a little research it seems that the mobile broadband packages being sold by the mobile phone companies are starting to become good deals there days. I looked at the 3 network and see that they offer 7.2 Mbps unmetered option for only 299 DKK a month. Since it uses a USB dongle it’s truly mobile (plus I noticed that unofficially the USB dongle works under Linux).
The other option that sprung to mind was WIMAXX offered in Denmark by Clearwire. The problem here is that to be truly mobile they need to get the receiver box and then also buy a wireless router, and of course they also need mains power supply. On top of that the downloads are limited to 5 GB per month plus the maximum speed offered is only 1.5 Mbps, pretty low limits by todays standards. It seems strange that Clearwire didn’t build a wireless router into the receiver as well.