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Using a laptop on the move is only cheap if you can get access to an ordinary landline with a socket to plug a modem into.  If you can then www.fast4.net provide the cheapest unlimited internet access on any phone line deal using an 0808 number.

If you need to use a mobile its either a painfully slow and hopeless GSM connection using an adapater and your minutes or you get to pay megabucks for data at prices 1000 times higher than ADSL on GPRS and 3G.

Accessing the internet on the move with a laptop is a major hassle and the current business model always seems to assume you are a businessman who is quite prepared to be ripped off!  Who knows perhaps in 3 years time they will realise that students want to use the internet when they are on the move too.

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I tried Onspeed before this exchange had broadband enabled and I had to ask for a refund it was so useless.

All it does is strip out the resolution of graphics content from websites to create the illusion of achieving a higher connection speed.

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Yes you are right.

Also OnSpeed's business will soon be dead in the water given the way that broadband prices are set to fall below 0800 dialup price in the next 12 months whilst less than 1% of phone lines will soon also be without a capacity to connect to broadband.