{"id":403,"date":"2008-04-17T14:03:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T18:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=403"},"modified":"2008-04-17T14:03:05","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T18:03:05","slug":"brief-techie-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Brief techie note"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been playing with a 3G data modem<\/a>, and I am completely converted. It’s often at least as fast as most communal wifi, and a great deal cheaper and more secure. I hate juggling with the the firewall every time I connect to a new access point. The coverage is patchy; inside Liverpool Street station, I could only get dialup speeds and sometimes on the train the connection would drop entirely. But the station always used to be a black spot for ordinary cellphone reception, too, and for much of the journey I was getting perfectly acceptable speeds. One of the Guardian’s<\/em> leader writers taught me a useful trick for getting net access in strange offices — just pull the network cable out of the nearest machine and plug it into your laptop — but this does seem a very much tidier solution. What’s even nicer is that it is pay as you go. If I am not going into London, I need pay nothing that month. The only small sadness is that it may be network locked. The salesperson would not give me a straight answer about that, and I don’t know who 3’s network partners are abroad, from whom I would buy a payg data card.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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