{"id":4977,"date":"2009-04-20T10:11:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T15:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wireless-broadband-maybe-weve-found-the-answer\/"},"modified":"2009-04-20T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T20:17:50","slug":"wireless-broadband-maybe-weve-found-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wireless-broadband-maybe-weve-found-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless Broadband – Maybe We’ve Found the Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’d think London would be bristling with wifi options. There was good service in marinas from Falmouth to Southampton. But we’ve been bandwidth challenged in St. Katherine’s Docks.<\/p>\n

We see two pay to play wifi options with our high gain antenna and access point. Both – BT Open Zone and Something Wireless – are slow and of intermittent availability. We subscribed to both – roughly US$22. per month for each – so we had a choice.<\/p>\n

But wait. It gets better.<\/p>\n

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Then we learned about the O3 system. This is a 3G (phone) network with a stable connection and reasonable download speeds. You are required to purchase a USB dongle and SIM card for US$30. You then buy data capacity. 3 gigs of data for a month is US$22. This set up is significantly less than we were paying Verizon in the US and we are told there is good coverage throughout the UK. So far, with a week of Skype calls, web surfing, sending photos to magazines, and lots of e-mails we have used about 700Mb of data.<\/p>\n

Now that we have the USB dongle we can purchase SIM cards for it wherever we are cruising with the 3G system (most of Europe and Scandinavia).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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