[access-uk] Re: JoikuSpot and Walking Hot Spot verses USB Dongle
- From: "Ibrahim Gucukoglu" <ibrahim_gucukoglu@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:47:11 +0100
Hi Eleanor.
Joykuspot and WHS are wireless solutions you install on your phone so that you
can use your phone as a wireless access point. The advantage of using one of
these solutions is that because your phone is wirelessly acting as an internet
gateway, you can use laptops, netbooks, IPod Touches or indeed any other
wireless equip device. The main disadvantage is that your phone will use a
significantly higher proportion of your battery, so standby times and talk
times will be affected significantly. A USB dongle on the other hand is
extremely small, self powering and more secure if you use a laptop, but you
can't use with any other kind of device as it usually requires software to be
installed to interface with it. There is a dongle supplied by Three at the
moment called the MiFi, this is a battery powered dongle with wireless
capability which can also be used with a USB port. This offers the best of
both worlds, as you've the compactness and PlugPlay of a USB dongle with the
convenience of wireless so you can use other devices which need access to the
net. As for going abroad, you'll have to check up on your pricing for
international data roaming. This can be quite cheap or very expensive
depending on where your headed and you'll mostly get 3G coverage which is
slower than HSDPA.
All the best, Ibrahim.
----- Original Message -----
From: Eleanor Burke
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:38 PM
Subject: [access-uk] JoikuSpot and Walking Hot Spot verses USB Dongle
Hi Jackie, Steve, Tristram and others
I wonder if any of you have had experience of USB Broadband dongle and one or
other of the Walking Hot Spot or JoikuSpot. How would you say they compare/
Have any of you been out of the UK and used these?
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