BMW Wifi Spot

[NewX5]

Just had this email.

Ok the Wi-Fi cradle is £439.21 inc Vat you do need to have a data sim to put in this too, BMW do have them in stock so If you wanted one I could try and email them to let us have one,

The ipad holders we still have no idea how much or when it will be sorry,


I am not too sure about this sim though does that mean I would need sim with data package or just calls?

[Jalf]

I'll be using my iPhone as a hotspot for car based browsing, not sure if I'd get the iPad holder, it's for in the back isn't it?

[NewX5]

[quote=""Jalf""]I'll be using my iPhone as a hotspot for car based browsing, not sure if I'd get the iPad holder, it's for in the back isn't it?[/quote]

The holder is for the rear but not sure what BMW will charge for that so may look at next-base option if available, I would be interested to know what it is like using an iPhone for a hotspot not sure If you have used. I will say the BMW option is largely over priced but I plan to put ipads in rear and will need some internet option or that goes out the window.

[Jalf]

Another option is a Mi-Fi dongle, just keep it in the car and set the iPad's up through that, they wouldn't just be tied to the car then either.
I've not tried the iPhone as a hotspot yet, but the mi-fi looks good.

[NewX5]

[quote=""Jalf""]Another option is a Mi-Fi dongle, just keep it in the car and set the iPad's up through that, they wouldn't just be tied to the car then either.
I've not tried the iPhone as a hotspot yet, but the mi-fi looks good.[/quote]

Thats an excellent item will have to go in a three store and test, hopefully there will be no issues whilst driving with the way this works. Thanks

[NewX5]

[quote=""Jalf""]Another option is a Mi-Fi dongle, just keep it in the car and set the iPad's up through that, they wouldn't just be tied to the car then either.
I've not tried the iPhone as a hotspot yet, but the mi-fi looks good.[/quote]


Just been on the phone to three this morning discussing the mifi and use in a vehicle which they confirmed works really well so will get down to three shop today to test. I may need to just purchase and use to really see how good it works I think they have a 14 day return period, the really good thing is you can pay another £15.00 to get item unlocked to use on any network so for me will be good for France.

Thanks Jalf

[Rusty]

This thread has caught my interest, but was wondering if you knew if the dongle (pay as you go) has a time limit on data usage, and if the top up expires?

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[NewX5]

[quote=""rusty nail""]This thread has caught my interest, but was wondering if you knew if the dongle (pay as you go) has a time limit on data usage, and if the top up expires?

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No Idea yet but good question will be back to you shortly.

[Jalf]

Us geeks were discussing them in the iPad 2 queue last Friday

[Avtar]

[quote=""rusty nail""]This thread has caught my interest, but was wondering if you knew if the dongle (pay as you go) has a time limit on data usage, and if the top up expires?

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I use the 3G Mi-Fi dongle for work on customer sites when they cannot supply internet access, works great, even when connecting to servers outside the UK. I have it on pay-as-you-go an dthe data usage has a 30 day expiry. £10 get you 1GB which usually last sthe month with ocassional use.

[Rusty]

[quote=""Avtar""][quote=""rusty nail""]This thread has caught my interest, but was wondering if you knew if the dongle (pay as you go) has a time limit on data usage, and if the top up expires?

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I use the 3G Mi-Fi dongle for work on customer sites when they cannot supply internet access, works great, even when connecting to servers outside the UK. I have it on pay-as-you-go an dthe data usage has a 30 day expiry. £10 get you 1GB which usually last sthe month with ocassional use.[/quote]

Thank you for that Avtar, thought that might be the case. Think we only use about 2 Gb a month at home so 1 Gb would prob do

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[NewX5]

[quote=""Avtar""][quote=""rusty nail""]This thread has caught my interest, but was wondering if you knew if the dongle (pay as you go) has a time limit on data usage, and if the top up expires?

Sent from my mobile device using Tapatalk[/quote]

I use the 3G Mi-Fi dongle for work on customer sites when they cannot supply internet access, works great, even when connecting to servers outside the UK. I have it on pay-as-you-go an dthe data usage has a 30 day expiry. £10 get you 1GB which usually last sthe month with ocassional use.[/quote]


Excellent that’s all I need to know defiantly getting one, now need to get ipad 2.

[sp3ctre]

I can confirm the 3 mi-fi dongle works really well... and you can unlock it dead easy too, so you can put in any SIM you like

[X5Sport]

If you have sn iphone 4 and an ipad, can you not set up a tethering system which allows an ipad to connect to an iphone running IOS version 4.3.x or lster? I though that was the whole idea of tethering? I have not set mine up, but Orange told me it was possible for £5 a month and I use my 500MB allowance via the phone.

I can't check it at the moment as I'm currently lying alongside a swimming pool in Southern Thailand. The weather's rubbish (never known it to be like this), but who cares...



and this is not an April Fool! It's 10:34 am here and about 4:30 something in the UK