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Does anyone know where to get a pay as you go wifi dongle in La Linea?
We're in Gibraltar at the minute and the wifi is rubbish. We've been told that La linea and Movistar is the best to go for but after searching all the stores we can find we've come up a blank.

Anyone out there have a dongle? If yes where did you get it, which one was is and how much does it cost?

many thanks
Darren and Vicki
Nocturne
 
dazautomatics said:
Does anyone know where to get a pay as you go wifi dongle in La Linea?
We're in Gibraltar at the minute and the wifi is rubbish. We've been told that La linea and Movistar is the best to go for but after searching all the stores we can find we've come up a blank.

Anyone out there have a dongle? If yes where did you get it, which one was is and how much does it cost?

many thanks
Darren and Vicki
Nocturne
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Do you mean a wifi dongle or a 3G dongle? It sounds as if you have wifi already.

Richard
 
RichardS said:
Do you mean a wifi dongle or a 3G dongle? It sounds as if you have wifi already.

Richard
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I doubt you can get a PAYG wifi dongle it would just be a wifi dongle for laptops that dont have a wifi antenna such as some PC towers.

3G Dongles then, yes Movistar is in the main high street just off the square (main street) buy there. I found it is easier for just email (£2 for 50mb per day) to use Vodafone roaming. SIM CARD Dongles (3g) are a unreliable, stress creating, costly way of accessing www, usually in a foreign language. If you want tho buy a local sim card which can be used to access the internet. Pop it in your mobile phone and turn your mobile into a mobile hotspot the plus side you should get 1gb per month for 20 euro . Worked well in Malta with Melita.

Hope this helps.... I advise wifi at cafe nearby Ship inn or Cafe on front at Queensway
 
If venturing into Spain, I've used a MASMovil SIM for the last 15 months - they have a 'bono' at €36/month for 5Gb, its a sort of monthly pre-pay set up but not a contract. The website and support are delivered in English and Spanish, the service piggybacks on Orange. One or two issues with billing but overall a good value proposition to the extent that I rarely looked for WiFi except when downloading TV content.

The MASMovil ebsite says thier nearest dealer is somewhere near Algeciras, so a bus ride away.

I'd buy the dongle separately and unlocked.
 
YES you can get WI-FI PAYG Dongle...... I dont know about UK though. We had PAYG in Turkey and Greece. Just go to the main telephone shops with your lap top and get them to installit for you.

Peter
 
rivonia said:
YES you can get WI-FI PAYG Dongle...... I dont know about UK though. We had PAYG in Turkey and Greece. Just go to the main telephone shops with your lap top and get them to installit for you.

Peter
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Hi Peter, yes you right. A dongle mobile wifi 3g PAYG so that anyone can access with pw. I prefer using my phone saves 55GBP and does the same thing. Just have to bring your charger along with you. On the boat fine.


http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/vodafone-r205-pay-as-you-go-mobile-wifi-black-white-17693109-pdt.html
 
Jamesuk said:
Hi Peter, yes you right. A dongle mobile wifi 3g PAYG so that anyone can access with pw. I prefer using my phone saves 55GBP and does the same thing. Just have to bring your charger along with you. On the boat fine.


http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/vodafone-r205-pay-as-you-go-mobile-wifi-black-white-17693109-pdt.html
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OK fine but: In Turkey you have now to register all mobile devices IMEI numbers if you put a Turkish sim in, or they switch you off, it used to be free but now they want 100 lira or in some cases more (it depends how you look at them I think).

HOWEVER as far as I know they don't switch off devices that are roaming, so you need to weigh up the costs - if you want to go to Turkey anyway.
 
3G dongles are the easy way to access the internet just about anywhere BUT you can easily wind up with a collection of them haging round as each operator will sell you one which is locked to their network in the country you bought it in. So a Vodafone dongle bought in UK will only work in UK and so on. Buy an unlocked dongle from a third party supplier and then you can simply buy a PAYG data SIM card in the country you're currently visiting. For what its worth, we've been using this system for the past 3 1/2 years and have only rarely failed to get access; perhaps 5 or 6 times in some remotes spots.

Wifi on the other hand is a much more patchy affair and increasingly difficult to find unsecured networks that you can tap into. The wifi network here in Sant Carles is not great using the built in antenna in the lap top (better in the iPad) so we bought an Alfa antenna booster; with that fitted, the internet is again a viable tool via wifi. In our case, it is likely that the antenna will be in hibernation until next winter, when there will hopefully be a wifi network we can tap into.....
 
don't get a dongle... They only work on one PC at a time..

Get a wifi Bat...

It uses the local 3G then sets up a small wifi area around itself.. With one wifi Bat you cannhave two or possibly up to five PC's likned at one time..... We have a Movistar Pre pay sim at the moment for Soain..,When we get to the next country, simoly buy another data sim for the local 3G..
 
duncan99210 said:
3G dongles are the easy way to access the internet just about anywhere BUT you can easily wind up with a collection of them haging round as each operator will sell you one which is locked to their network in the country you bought it in. So a Vodafone dongle bought in UK will only work in UK and so on. Buy an unlocked dongle from a third party supplier and then you can simply buy a PAYG data SIM card in the country you're currently visiting. For what its worth, we've been using this system for the past 3 1/2 years and have only rarely failed to get access; perhaps 5 or 6 times in some remotes spots.

Wifi on the other hand is a much more patchy affair and increasingly difficult to find unsecured networks that you can tap into. The wifi network here in Sant Carles is not great using the built in antenna in the lap top (better in the iPad) so we bought an Alfa antenna booster; with that fitted, the internet is again a viable tool via wifi. In our case, it is likely that the antenna will be in hibernation until next winter, when there will hopefully be a wifi network we can tap into.....
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I couldn't agree with you more and have to smile wryly about these long threads one sees about wi-fi boosters and agonies expressed about signal strengths. It's infinitely cheaper and less traumatic to just use the 3G network and (as most of Europe is ahead of the UK) the 4G network. It costs me €14.99/month for 5Gb and I don't have to be tied up to some scruffy port quay or pay excessive marina prices to "enjoy" intermittent internet access.

PS It is misleading to think you have to buy (sic) a dongle - most smartphones do the job more efficiently.
 
Tomahawk said:
don't get a dongle... They only work on one PC at a time..

Get a wifi Bat...

It uses the local 3G then sets up a small wifi area around itself.. With one wifi Bat you cannhave two or possibly up to five PC's likned at one time..... We have a Movistar Pre pay sim at the moment for Soain..,When we get to the next country, simoly buy another data sim for the local 3G..
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+1 for the concept, I went the Alfa r36 route with a hi gain USB Wifi adaptor and it's great onboard, kindle, nexus, laptop and onboard computer all logged on. Drop box makes sharing the files so easy. Haven't tried it yet with 3g dongle but should work fine.
 
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