Up on the 27th
DD moving out the same day.
Friday 22 March 2013
Monday 18 March 2013
megabytes , mobile phones and unlocking
We are soon off to scotty for the big push.
In other words...
DD is moving out of the flat and we can get in to clean it up and put it right prior to letting it.
DD has been there rent free for about 6 months so we have felt no qualms about her putting up with it as is.
I bought a steam cleaner from Ebay to take up with us to make sure the place is thoroughly clean .
I have tried it out at home and it is a good little machine.
The freezer was rather startled to discover it was going to get defrosted for the first time in about 18 months.
We have an old Aqua Vac that we bought years and years ago to cope with all the mess of pets and small kids.
It mostly lives in the shed as it is so noisy that the user has ringing in their ears after using it which can't be healthy.
Anyway,armed with the Aqua Vac and the Steamer, our freezer became the cleanest it has ever been except for when it was new.
The flat has had new radiators,a new cooker and a new shower.
We are probably going to paint the Bathroom .
I think we will be buying a new mattress for the bed too.
We have a new extractor fan to fit in the bathroom.
A sparky will actually fit it so that it is in compliance with safety regulations.
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While we are up there, we wont have TV or internet access.
We can take our laptops so we will take some films to watch .
I have joined Samba so that I can take one of our unlocked mobile broadband dongles for light surfing and emailing.
I have only just discovered Samba.
It is a company that sell a sim or a sim with a dongle and then you access their webpage to watch video adverts which credit your sim with megabytes.
So far I have been a member for 12 days and have about 900 megabytes for using when we go.
If you are interested in joining them, they are here http://www.sambamobile.com
I bought my sim using a code from moneysavingexpert which allowed me to get it for £1 delivered.
I dont know how long the Code is valid for but it is worth taking a look if you are interested in joining
OR
I can refer you and we each recieve £3 worth of credit....
My referral is here click here to be referred
The sims are quite cheap once you consider that the credit is free .
Sims and microsims are £5
A sim with a Dongle is £25
You can use the sims in any unlocked dongle or I believe in a 3 dongle as they work on the three network.
The microsims work in some tablets.
You can also add credit using your paypal account or debit/credit card .
Credit that you add with your money lasts 30 days.
Credit earned by watching ads lasts until you use it.
I think anyone who wants to surf away from home every now and then would find it useful.
If you were hoping to use it every day instead of broadband,it would only really be for very light use unless you were going to top it up .
3 ads a day would give only 10.5mb which is enough to view '30 web pages and 100 emails' (quoting their customer service). I have never had less than 3 to watch .
I also have Joikuspot on two of my phones.
It is a wifi access point program that turns your phone into the hotspot.
I wont use it much as mostly I will use the dongle but it might fill in when the dongle is running low.
I'll only use it with K-meleon which is a light weight browser.
These two things together are better than buying another mobile broadband sim with credit on.
I can get some data credit for 50p a day on my phones and will only use it if the samba sim runs out.
To see how much data I will use, I have Bitmeter on my laptop. You can monitor your connections with it so you dont go over what you have allowed yourself per day.
On my phones I have DataMonitor which does the same but just for the phone.
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I unlocked all our broadband dongles.
We have huawei dongles .
One was a BT dongle and the other three were from 3.
The newest one is a HiLink dongle and I had to find a friendly forum with a person in the know who could give me the unlock code but it worked and all are now unlocked for free.
I have several Nokia phones as each time OH upgraded,he handed me his old phone.
The most recent two are on three because they are the kind that need a machine especially for unlocking. One I use as a camera and calculator and dont keep a sim in. It still works on our home wifi as a browser.
The other is my used phone for calls.
I also have an older version that is unlocked and on a different network.
In my drawer I have an N-gage which I unlocked with an unlock calculator and a 3310 also unlocked via calculator.
The N-gage is unlikely to get much use, its battery is too weedy but it does work.
The 3310 cant use 3g and most networks rely on 3g these days.
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In other words...
DD is moving out of the flat and we can get in to clean it up and put it right prior to letting it.
DD has been there rent free for about 6 months so we have felt no qualms about her putting up with it as is.
I bought a steam cleaner from Ebay to take up with us to make sure the place is thoroughly clean .
I have tried it out at home and it is a good little machine.
The freezer was rather startled to discover it was going to get defrosted for the first time in about 18 months.
We have an old Aqua Vac that we bought years and years ago to cope with all the mess of pets and small kids.
It mostly lives in the shed as it is so noisy that the user has ringing in their ears after using it which can't be healthy.
Anyway,armed with the Aqua Vac and the Steamer, our freezer became the cleanest it has ever been except for when it was new.
The flat has had new radiators,a new cooker and a new shower.
We are probably going to paint the Bathroom .
I think we will be buying a new mattress for the bed too.
We have a new extractor fan to fit in the bathroom.
A sparky will actually fit it so that it is in compliance with safety regulations.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
While we are up there, we wont have TV or internet access.
We can take our laptops so we will take some films to watch .
I have joined Samba so that I can take one of our unlocked mobile broadband dongles for light surfing and emailing.
I have only just discovered Samba.
It is a company that sell a sim or a sim with a dongle and then you access their webpage to watch video adverts which credit your sim with megabytes.
So far I have been a member for 12 days and have about 900 megabytes for using when we go.
If you are interested in joining them, they are here http://www.sambamobile.com
I bought my sim using a code from moneysavingexpert which allowed me to get it for £1 delivered.
I dont know how long the Code is valid for but it is worth taking a look if you are interested in joining
OR
I can refer you and we each recieve £3 worth of credit....
My referral is here click here to be referred
The sims are quite cheap once you consider that the credit is free .
Sims and microsims are £5
A sim with a Dongle is £25
You can use the sims in any unlocked dongle or I believe in a 3 dongle as they work on the three network.
The microsims work in some tablets.
You can also add credit using your paypal account or debit/credit card .
Credit that you add with your money lasts 30 days.
Credit earned by watching ads lasts until you use it.
I think anyone who wants to surf away from home every now and then would find it useful.
If you were hoping to use it every day instead of broadband,it would only really be for very light use unless you were going to top it up .
3 ads a day would give only 10.5mb which is enough to view '30 web pages and 100 emails' (quoting their customer service). I have never had less than 3 to watch .
I also have Joikuspot on two of my phones.
It is a wifi access point program that turns your phone into the hotspot.
I wont use it much as mostly I will use the dongle but it might fill in when the dongle is running low.
I'll only use it with K-meleon which is a light weight browser.
These two things together are better than buying another mobile broadband sim with credit on.
I can get some data credit for 50p a day on my phones and will only use it if the samba sim runs out.
To see how much data I will use, I have Bitmeter on my laptop. You can monitor your connections with it so you dont go over what you have allowed yourself per day.
On my phones I have DataMonitor which does the same but just for the phone.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I unlocked all our broadband dongles.
We have huawei dongles .
One was a BT dongle and the other three were from 3.
The newest one is a HiLink dongle and I had to find a friendly forum with a person in the know who could give me the unlock code but it worked and all are now unlocked for free.
I have several Nokia phones as each time OH upgraded,he handed me his old phone.
The most recent two are on three because they are the kind that need a machine especially for unlocking. One I use as a camera and calculator and dont keep a sim in. It still works on our home wifi as a browser.
The other is my used phone for calls.
I also have an older version that is unlocked and on a different network.
In my drawer I have an N-gage which I unlocked with an unlock calculator and a 3310 also unlocked via calculator.
The N-gage is unlikely to get much use, its battery is too weedy but it does work.
The 3310 cant use 3g and most networks rely on 3g these days.
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