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>3 Skypephone, does it have modem facility?
>
> As the title, can I buy one of these and get it hooked up to a pc to use
> their PAYG 3g broadband service?
> Thanks
>

>
> Terry Wilkie wrote in message
> news:6bs8q0F3cr8ajU1@mid.individual.net...
> >3 Skypephone, does it have modem facility?
> >
> > As the title, can I buy one of these and get it hooked up to a pc to use
> > their PAYG 3g broadband service?
> > Thanks
> >
> Apparently yes, but it would be much simpler to go buy say a used
> Nokia 6630 (which is fairly easy to unlock with BB5 unlocker)
> for about the same or less money, with a standard DKU2 usb datalead
> and download the latest Nokia datasuite with its one button connect
wizard
>
> Steve Terry

> Steve Terry wrote in message
> news:g3c6mc$q6t$1@news.albasani.net...
>> Terry Wilkie wrote in message
>> news:6bs8q0F3cr8ajU1@mid.individual.net...
>> >3 Skypephone, does it have modem facility?
>> >
>> > As the title, can I buy one of these and get it hooked up to a pc to
>> > use
>> > their PAYG 3g broadband service?
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> Apparently yes, but it would be much simpler to go buy say a used
>> Nokia 6630 (which is fairly easy to unlock with BB5 unlocker)
>> for about the same or less money, with a standard DKU2 usb datalead
>> and download the latest Nokia datasuite with its one button connect
>> wizard
>> Steve Terry
>
> You might be right, but on the other hand, if you dont have the data-lead
> and you dont want to mess around, would it not just be simpler to buy one
> of
> these and hook it up to the PC using the modem facility (assuming you are
> correct and it does support modem features) and just use that? I think I
> might be able to borrow onw of these Skypephone things to test it out
> (possibly) and see how well it works. Is it true I could get reasonable
> speeds with a 1GB cap for a fiver a month?
>

>
> The reason I am looking at these is because a mate of mine has bought a
> couple of them one for him and one for his GF, and I asked him about the
> modem feature and he didnt know.... I assume it wont do the turbo modem
> function you talked about ealier in the thread, but I assume it should be
> good for 400kbps then?
> Terry
>

> > The reason I am looking at these is because a mate of mine has bought a
> > couple of them one for him and one for his GF, and I asked him about the
> > modem feature and he didnt know.... I assume it wont do the turbo
modem
> > function you talked about ealier in the thread, but I assume it should
be
> > good for 400kbps then?
> > Terry
> >
> Yes, youll have to set up the 3 dialup settings for it in windows network
> settings
>
> Steve Terry

> by each month? Over and above the 4 quid for data use?

> Steve Terry wrote in message
> news:g3e2bj$kpp$1@news.albasani.net...

> Steve, if I bought one of these Skypephones (after I have tested it with
> my
> mates unit), how much would it cost me to run the phone? I would only
> want
> it for data (I would probably never use the phone as a phone.....) Just
> as
> a modem.... Is there a minimum amount that the phone would need topping
> up
> by each month? Over and above the 4 quid for data use?
> Thanks Steve
> Terry
>

> Minimum is 5 quid a month which you allocate out of your top op
> to internet monthly.
> Or you can allocate internet daily or weekly which i think is
> 50p and Ł2.50
>
> BTW 3 email on 3 internet is charged at 12p per email sent
> on the standard SMTP port
>
> So instead use googlemail on its SSL ports to avoid the charges ;-)
>
> Broadband is 10quid a month, again you go into planet3 wap
> and allocate it out of your top up.
> The system is very user choice orientated
>
> Steve Terry