Question by Wotchers: 3 mobile broadband – using phone as modem?
I’m planning on purchasing a 1 month mobile broadband add on with 3.
I’ve heard that you can use your phone as a modem, and don’t have to use that dongle. The only thing I’m not sure on is how do you set it up? Where would I find the settings so I can dial in?
I’m hoping someone here might know.
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Answer by JUSLIKETHAT
i’m doing it as we speak!! – just plug and play pretty much!! good luck it’s a doddle
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Other than the initial 2 weeks of my contract (when I could have cancelled) this has been a frustrating and frankly horrible experience, as is dealing with 3 who still blame anything and everything for the poor service they provide, who still take an age to not answer your query then call you to ask what you thought of your customer experience with 3, who still direct customers who wish to make a manual payment to an automated service which doesn’t work and hasn’t worked for months, who still transfer customers to a premium rate number without telling them, who still register credits given in lieu of poor service as unpaid bills, therefore wilfully spoiling customer’s credit ratings, who still throttle the speeds of heavy users who still stay within the allowances they pay for harder than light users, who still put restrictions on speeds when using the service in a different area with high speeds and low usage in order to save on resources and who still laud themselves as the best thing since sliced bread.
My relationship with 3 is quite simple and straightforward, as I told them. When they give me what I signed up and pay for instead of headache after headache offline and misery online, then I’ll stop continually highlighting why they are the poorest rated mobile broadband provider in the UK, why they take full advantage of weak and ineffective regulation, why they have systematically failed to improve since the inception of this service and why you (the potential customer) should at all costs stay well away and choose a leading and reputable network instead – 02, Orange, Vodafone, T-Mobile or Virgin.
normally phone is connected to your computer through a USB data cable and it will detect the hardware automatically.
you will be getting CD from ISP of your mobile phone which has the necessary dialer and it will be having the number which it will be dialling to ISP for connecting internet.
same thing you can do with windows dialer also just find out the number and pw for the internet given by ISP and feed it
My freind has it! it was really slow!
I use my 3 phone as a modem and its not that bad, speedtest shows around 1.3mbps.