Digital Britain my foot.

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Originally Posted by GridGirl

Surely Wi-fi is the answer all along rather than put an extra tarrif on all land line phones? We use Orange Wi-Fi in the Lake District with no trouble at all, who needs a landline and broadband anyway?

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But how many places have wifi hotspots. My experience with that is that these so called networks have hotspots which are so few and far between it's not worth subscribing unless you are going to one particular place on a very regular basis.

Now if they all got together to have one scheme which most hotspots participated in, that would be much better!

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Originally Posted by Mark

But how many places have wifi hotspots. My experience with that is that these so called networks have hotspots which are so few and far between it's not worth subscribing unless you are going to one particular place on a very regular basis.

Now if they all got together to have one scheme which most hotspots participated in, that would be much better!

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I think gridgirl is talking about a pen drive that you just plug into your computer and you access the internet through that anywhere just over the mobile phone network.

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Originally Posted by Drew

I think gridgirl is talking about a pen drive that you just plug into your computer and you access the internet through that anywhere just over the mobile phone network.

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Ah, that's not wifi that's 3G. (UTMS or HSDPA etc)

I was meaning what Drew was saying I think. We used to have a Orange thing that plugged into the lap top but now its plugged into a Wi-Fi thing instead. God knows.....I know nothing about the internet. :p Either way, it works in rural locations where we havent got a landline.

Wi-fi hotspots are pretty poor, I turned the function on my iPhone off because they were useless.