pay and go dongle

[bednobs]

owing to being stuck in hospital, my .ovely husband bought in my laptop and got me a vodaphone p&G dongle. The GB usage seems to be being used quite fast. I am currently running ie7 which allows you to have mpre than 1 home page - i have 3, but can obv on;y use one at a time. Am i using my allowance up quicker by having 3 p[ages open, despite the fact im not on the other 2?

[dotty.]

it's downloading that takes up the GBs isn't it? not just browsing?

[bednobs]

i havent downloaded anything at all

[Mick-Talbot]

i'm using a dogle right now. 15 euros unlimited usage.

[dotty.]

is it the 3GB fair usage one? that should be enough for most months supposedly

[TonyV]

Don't know the tarrif - but are you looking at any video? that uses up GB's quickly - Hope you get well soon

[bednobs]

blimey - ive on;ly had it 3 days and i'm down to 1.6 gb already!

[bednobs]

no, no video - just internet browsing

[dotty.]

you should get about 100 hours for the month on that one if it is the white vodaphone stick

[Postdog]

I had one when we moved (prior to a permanent line) and used it sparingly, but it did last. However when I topped up, something went skewiff and I was never able to use what I had supposedly paid for.

[TonyV]

bednobs - depends on whether it's one for 30 days with fair useage - they still normally let you surf - at least T- mobile does

[bednobs]

well, typically i didnt rtfm! i think it is the fair useage ne

[AlBags]

Any web-page uses components that all have to be downloaded.

You need Firefox .. or something like that .. and store Google as home page while there.
Any active content will use constant bandwidth .. yes.
Try to set up offline webpage storage. That will help.
Use an addon like Flashblock and modify the host file as shown here .. easy to do. That will stop the browser downloading junk all the time.

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

[TonyV]

but bednobs - if it is totally new laptop - it will have had to download a lot of stuff - unless it was configured at home before you received it - sure your hubby will be able to get you another top up if necessary -

[bednobs]

no, its an old lappy
thanks albags

[bednobs]

and everyone else of course

[karenmac60]

Did you use up all of your allowance Bednobs? I've not seen you about for ages - hope you're ok :) x

[mike11111]

I have an O2 dongle. £15 for 2 GB or thirty days, which is more than enough for my deeds as I very rarely download. PAYG is a bit of a misnomer as unlike a mobile phone, if you don't use the allowance within the allotted time span it disappears. Funnily enough, last Friday I had 300MB left but on Saturday morning I had none. I realised that the thirty days were up so topped up again and was credited with 2.3 GB, which looked as though the 300MB I had lost had been mysteriously restored.