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Switch on your lap top, look for Wi-Fi signals & see who hasn't put a password on theirs.  Never failet to pick up a signal yet!*

Hiya. Bought the 3G dongle pay as you go. I was abit concerned at first, you only have 3 days to return it, if its not working and as I didn't buy until the day before we went away at 5pm (and they classed that as my 1st day - cheek!!)  thought this might be a waste of money. But we tried it at home that night and it worked. better and quicker than land line. lol. But when camping, we couldn't get any reception in Coniston. (Just thought better start using it at home, use my tenner up  -lol)

My brother told me, if he needs to use his laptop, he just pulls over and theres usually a wireless signal in a street and uses it.

Thanks for all your replys, it looks like the 3 dongle is very popular and I think that is the way we will go.

Obviously we don't expect it to work everywhere but like most technology I'm sure that this will improve with time and demand.

Bought the dongle from 3 today, bought a starter kit for £69.99 comes complete with the dongle and 3gb of data and lasts for 3 months.

Installation is easy plugged it into the new laptop and it installed itself spent a hour playing about online and it works a treat.

More than happy so far and the staff in the 3 shop were brilliant too.

My Nokia N82 mobile phone has wi-fi on it . . .  just do a search for an open connection and bingo, you're online! Sometimes its very handy as you can look up an address on the internet while out and about.

Maccy D's is free to everyone!

Chaz

I would never use a free wi-fi connection for anything involving passwords or sensitive data. Doing a Google search of a company to find out its postcode for your sat nav is fine IMHO.

chaz

Quote: Originally posted by Charlies Mummy on 06/7/2008

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The *potential* (ie low but possible) pitfall of using free wifi spots is not knowing whether you can trust the person who provides it - your network traffic is going through their servers so all the data out/back ie your passwords, may be at risk. I know the chances of your transmitting through just the wrong one is low, but before you say oh there is an unsecured hot-spot I will have a borrow of it - think what sort of trouble you might get into for your free 5 mins online... I was a victim of identity theft about 6 years ago, it was a nightmare and I dont recommend it. Id rather pay for a secure service these days than risk my passwords being compromised.

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