On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 14:02:12 Craig Sanders said,
do you know someone who has a mobile phone that will let you borrow it for 10 minutes?
perhaps they have an old phone buried at the bottom of a drawer?
craig
On thinking the current situation over I do not regard it as serious enough to bother any one with something I know so little about (I have never had or used a current mobile phone). As mentioned I currently have broadband access to Virgin with the modem, a Huawei E220, Now I do have a Huawei E160 (Note 1) as a spare. I have currently put it away and cannot find it, but but will surface soon as I am cleaning up my computor room today. Another option probably worth pursuing is an external router that can use a 3/4G modem such as the Netcom Wireless 4GM3W with a Netcom N600, the latter does not have linux suppport but the I assume the 4GM3W does. Further research is required. Of course a real good solution is to find a couple of Belkin micro N300's (one as a spare) Belkin Australia claim these are readily availible. Note 1: The Huawei E160 is a slightly cut down version of the E220. Note 2: I did a lot of web searching and ringing around yesterday and was offered 3 different mobile broadband dongles, none of which had in built linux kernel support, _______________VERY_______________ frustrating I may say. Lindsay