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I've moved into a flat with no internet. I'm only here for a month, but still. Wahhh.
I need internet on my laptop for accessing papers, and completing a qualification I'm doing. I would also like wifi for watching TV etc, because I don't have a TV here either.... but that's a luxury rather than a necessity.
At the moment I've added an add-on to my phone contract to get something like 1gb of data to use as a hotspot. I doubt it will last me long though... Annoyingly I had free tethering on my previous contract, but I now pay a third of the price and don't get it anymore.....
I have no idea about dongles and stuff. They all seem a fairly expensive long term option rather than a short-term fix. Any ideas?
I need internet on my laptop for accessing papers, and completing a qualification I'm doing. I would also like wifi for watching TV etc, because I don't have a TV here either.... but that's a luxury rather than a necessity.
At the moment I've added an add-on to my phone contract to get something like 1gb of data to use as a hotspot. I doubt it will last me long though... Annoyingly I had free tethering on my previous contract, but I now pay a third of the price and don't get it anymore.....
I have no idea about dongles and stuff. They all seem a fairly expensive long term option rather than a short-term fix. Any ideas?
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You can get pay-as-you-go dongles - I used one when I had to live at my aunts house for a month without internet - might be worth going to car phone warehouse or similar to chat with them about dealios? With mine, after the month was out, I just ditched it.
You can also get 30 day wifi from BT, but sadly not a cheap option
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Are there any wifi signals that you can pick up from nearby flats? It might be worth asking them whether you could pay them for a month in order to share their wifi. Does depend massively on what's around as to whether there's any potential in that idea or not.