I have been wanting to use one of these for a while. To compare how it ‘feels’ compared to landline broadband.

In case you are unaware, mobile broadband uses the new high bandwidth High Speed Downlink Packet Access or HSDPA service that is establishing it’s self as a practical means of accessing real internet, not just wap text based pages, on the go.

The service I was using was on a newer model Sony Vaio laptop with Vista SP1. It brought up web pages reasonably fast, not as fast as a landline broadband connection but fast. But unlike the home broadband connection, it is not dependent upon a phone line or a power socket. If you use it with a laptop, you can quiet literally use it anywhere.

As I have mentioned, the speed is not great but it is good enough for most things. Like your mobile phone signal it is entirely dependent upon your mobile phone signal.

It is a good technology although I feel it still needs perfecting as it is prone to disconnection and drop outs in speed.

Andy