On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:29:03 +0000, John Stumbles wrote:

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:00:36 +0100, R D S wrote:

I was getting 3Gb per month for £15pm DD with a USB dongle, it was
flaky at best, when it came to not renewing their retention dept gave
me a proper modem and upped me to 15Gb per month.

The modem rocks, I get better speed than on wired (up to) 8Mb BB from
BT.

What do you mean by 'modem'? I thought modems were (generally) wired
gizmos - aren't we talking about wireless kit here?

"Modem" is shorthand for MOdulator-DEModulator. It really just means
transmitting one type of signal on top of another, e.g. data over phone
lines or data over a wireless signal. The term is used less for wireless
devices because the modem bit is just a small part of what the device as
a whole does.

BW