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Max <max@val.morgan> wrote:
> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:deeitmFnc7pU1@mid.individual.net...
[...]
> The idea would be to use a mobile wifi modem which you insert a SIM into, so 
> you end up with a mobile phone account and a mobile broadband account, and 
> they can be with two separate providers.
> 
> <snip>
> >Depending on what mobile plan you are already on, amaysim may
> >be better value with say their $40/month mobile plan with $100 10GB
> >data packs as required. You're paying $480 a year with the slut so if
> >you don't use more than say 40GB a year, 3.5GB a month, amaysim
> >would be cheaper.
> 
> 3.5GB per month is not enough.  What about all the Windows updates?  Plus my 
> TV can stream HD movies which would be about 2GB each.

  HDTV streaming, heh? You'd better check if your intended choice of
mobile broadband can actually *do* that, before commiting yourself to a
'plan'.

  HDTV needs some 8 to 15 Mbps [1]. So you need at least '4G', and even
that may/will be too slow some/most of the time.

  So I fully agree with Rod's advice (<audience drops yaws, gets fits,
etc.>):

  Get yourself a *real* *fixed* broadband connection.

[...]

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rate#Video>

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cheapest mobile broadband? "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-12-28 09:40 +0800
  Re: cheapest mobile broadband? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2015-12-28 02:12 +0000
    Re: cheapest mobile broadband? "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-12-28 10:25 +0800
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    Re: cheapest mobile broadband? Xeno <xenolith@optusnet.com.au> - 2015-12-28 07:16 +0000
  Re: cheapest mobile broadband? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-12-28 16:50 +1100
    Re: cheapest mobile broadband? "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-12-28 14:17 +0800
      Re: cheapest mobile broadband? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-12-29 06:17 +1100
        Re: cheapest mobile broadband? "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-12-29 12:03 +0800
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            Re: cheapest mobile broadband? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-12-29 16:10 +1100
              Re: cheapest mobile broadband? "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-12-29 14:39 +0800
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                Re: cheapest mobile broadband? "Max" <max@val.morgan> - 2015-12-30 07:15 +0800
                Re: cheapest mobile broadband? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-12-30 16:52 +0000
                Re: cheapest mobile broadband? not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2015-12-30 22:42 +0000
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