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Poll: Do you use mobile Internet?
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oxygen4u
oxygen4u
Portugal
Local time: 14:45
inglés al portugués
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Yes... Mar 29, 2011

As a matter of fact, it's the only Internet service I have...

 
Anthony Baldwin
Anthony Baldwin  Identity Verified
Estados Unidos
Local time: 09:45
portugués al inglés
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droid does Mar 29, 2011

I have a Motorol Droid2 (android phone), which I do use occasionally to access the internet, but, frankly, not much.
Since I work at home, on a computer, I don't need to much.

One thing I do routinely, however, is:
I have a dokuwiki installation on a server here in my office
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I have a Motorol Droid2 (android phone), which I do use occasionally to access the internet, but, frankly, not much.
Since I work at home, on a computer, I don't need to much.

One thing I do routinely, however, is:
I have a dokuwiki installation on a server here in my office, and I keep a grocery list on a page therein (http://blinguas.homelinux.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=groclist), which I will edit while I'm at home, and, then I can view it on my phone when I get to the grocery store.

I occasionally check e-mails while out of the office using the phone, but I don't get out much, so that's infrequent.
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Steven Capsuto
Steven Capsuto  Identity Verified
Estados Unidos
Local time: 09:45
Miembro 2004
español al inglés
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Don't need it Mar 29, 2011

I usually use the cable connection at home. If I'm out and about, I check e-mail using wifi at my favorite coffeehouses. If I don't have the laptop with me and I absolutely need to check mail, I'll use a PC at a photocopy shop. But that's a rare occurrence.

A few months ago I took a 13-hour train ride with no wifi connection and I have to say, it was a wonderfully relaxing and productive ride. It's good to disconnect from the internet on occasion.


 
Maria Drangel
Maria Drangel  Identity Verified
Suecia
Local time: 15:45
inglés al sueco
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Yes Mar 29, 2011

When at home I use my ASDL-connection but as a back-up - if I have problems with the home-network, and when I am on the move, I use my MEGAFAST mobile internet-connection.

In addition, all e-mails are forwarded to an account on my cell phone so I get a signal each time a new e-mail arrives. Within a minute I know that I have an e-mail to read and regardless of whether I am at my computer (then I check my e-mail on the computer of course) or if I am walking the dog or whatever (then
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When at home I use my ASDL-connection but as a back-up - if I have problems with the home-network, and when I am on the move, I use my MEGAFAST mobile internet-connection.

In addition, all e-mails are forwarded to an account on my cell phone so I get a signal each time a new e-mail arrives. Within a minute I know that I have an e-mail to read and regardless of whether I am at my computer (then I check my e-mail on the computer of course) or if I am walking the dog or whatever (then I check it in the cell phone) I have normally read the e-mail within a few minutes.

It works for me.
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Andrej
Andrej  Identity Verified
Local time: 19:45
Miembro 2005
alemán al ruso
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Yes Mar 29, 2011

Two USB sticks for 3G and one USB stick for 4G (Mobile WiMAX)

[Edited at 2011-03-29 18:23 GMT]


 
JaneD
JaneD  Identity Verified
Suecia
Local time: 15:45
Miembro 2009
sueco al inglés
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NO! Mar 29, 2011

Over the last eighteen months, I've had one PC die on me, another one become severely sick, and have suffered extreme stress when I have been forced (through failure of fixed broadband) to use mobile access.

I'm sure that when it works it's all very good, but if you live in an area where the coverage is poor then it's a total nightmare.

Will it work today, or not? Will it suddenly nod off in the middle of sending a large file, locking up my mailbox and requiring me
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Over the last eighteen months, I've had one PC die on me, another one become severely sick, and have suffered extreme stress when I have been forced (through failure of fixed broadband) to use mobile access.

I'm sure that when it works it's all very good, but if you live in an area where the coverage is poor then it's a total nightmare.

Will it work today, or not? Will it suddenly nod off in the middle of sending a large file, locking up my mailbox and requiring me to connect a million times (at 0.000001 Mbps) to put it right? Will it give me a blue screen of death eight times a day (thus leading to aforementioned dead PC after a fortnight)? Is it windy, thereby causing the thing to connect *even more slowly*? In what ridiculous position will I have to perch the PC to get it to work this afternoon? (Not to mention the twice daily phonecalls to the broadband provider to try to get the fixed access back as promised...)

I love the idea of wireless and mobile connections, it's just that for me the reality seems to fall far short of useability!
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Michal Surmař
Michal Surmař  Identity Verified
República Checa
Local time: 15:45
Miembro 2010
inglés al checo
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I use mobile internet to check my e-mails ... Mar 29, 2011

... but I feel I became addicted. I think I should start applying Interlangue's motto "When I work I do not move; when I am on the move, I do not work!".

Michal.


 
Jaime Oriard
Jaime Oriard  Identity Verified
México
Local time: 07:45
Miembro 2005
inglés al español
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Yes, always Mar 30, 2011

When I'm on the move, I log in to Messenger on my phone. And I always use it to check emails, check what the local movie theaters are showing, book a table somewhere, chat with a friend while waiting, etc., etc.

 
Victoria Porter-Burns
Victoria Porter-Burns  Identity Verified
Reino Unido
Local time: 14:45
Miembro 2007
francés al inglés
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I certainly do, but not for work Mar 30, 2011

Interlangue wrote:

When I work I do not move; when I am on the move, I do not work!

[Modifié le 2011-03-29 08:31 GMT]


Who said anything about work? You can use mobile Internet for a whole range of things. I use it for checking weather forecasts when I'm out an about, getting film times if I'm off to the cinema, etc.


 
Interlangue (X)
Interlangue (X)
Angola
Local time: 15:45
inglés al francés
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I assumed it would be for work... Mar 30, 2011

Victoria Burns wrote:

Who said anything about work? You can use mobile Internet for a whole range of things. I use it for checking weather forecasts when I'm out an about, getting film times if I'm off to the cinema, etc.


When I am not working, I enjoy being connected to the real world and real life for a change, and get back to their virtual equivalent only when I get tired of reality. Time to get back to work then!


 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 14:45
Miembro 2007
inglés al portugués
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No! Mar 30, 2011

Marjolein Keyer wrote:

Interlangue wrote:

When I work I do not move; when I am on the move, I do not work!

[Modifié le 2011-03-29 08:31 GMT]


... couldn't have said it better!


 
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