Although the latest offers of the companies best known lately tend to speed connection, which is approaching the threshold of 28,800 Mbps, are not overlook less sensational aspects such as' reliability and rates. A mobile connection becomes even more important if are spreading to laptops and netbooks, and until they are incorporated technologies that allow connection will have to rely on these implants, with the SIM card with a regular contract and any memory card.

The drive that I bought late last year is the K3565Z marketed by Vodafone, with a contract apparently very advantageous, since it includes three months of connectivity up to 30 hours per month, but also has a minimum with corresponding application of penalty in case of cancellation, will also include payment by RID, unlike with some operations which require mandatory to make payment by credit card.

The modem, USB stick or whatever you want, is manufactured by Huawei Technologies, supports HSPA allow access in reception speeds of 7.2 Mbps under optimal conditions of cover, otherwise it could fall back on old infrastructure, GPRS, of course with lower speed .One of the earliest convenience, which also saves also the producer, is to have the software on the device, which means not having to carry CD or DVD installation, when it happens to have to install a computer on the fly not ours, it is an advantage.

On the other hand, there are drawbacks: for example, the supplied software does not work with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, so you must download a new software from Vodafone, which will make the connections and also to manage the SMS the latest Apple computers, originally excluded, according to sources, because of the advance with which the new operating system was delivered and put on sale. Personally I also tried installing on an iBook G3, and I only had some obvious problem of speed of the browser.

Best overall functioning on a G4, even on older Mac 's program interface is a little' rudimentary. A bit 'slow, but failed to install on Vista, two hurried attempts, one failed, on XP SP 2.

With the updates, the connection appears to work well in that network coverage is quite good, at least in the province of Milan, although the speeds are not always available and regularly fail to reach the theoretical limits.

As for mobility, I tried to travel on a regional train line Milan-Turin with controversial results. For example, no link from Rho Novara, by starting the connection from the moving train. Instead, a connection in Novara during the stop of the train, I got almost to Vercelli, albeit with some jump, before becoming disconnected automatically.

Then there are the usual drawbacks arising from the contract, which provides advance pricing for fifteen minutes at a time, and that causes the syndrome of fifteen minutes: seconds after the fourteenth minute there he runs into something indispensable and irrimandabile, which causes transition to the next quarter of an hour of connection, etc. Rates up to SFOR inevitably limit the contract.

Joking aside, the system is not easy to manage, since the function of the management program that summarizes the consumption is not very precise, so it needs a minimum of attention, although I believe that the risks are reduced overdraft account thanks to alerts via SMS.

Not to sound exaggerated, but a hardware of this kind seems inevitable, if not indispensable, for emergencies, when traveling, for small operations to be done on the Net, at signing the contract you are alerted to possible restrictions on the amount downloaded item, to discourage excessive use, there is also a key concern of overheating, which might not catch on fire, but assumed to mean a concentration of radiation is not fully healthy.

In short, this kind of offer sounds suitable for a use non-intensive, although it needs more attention, which I hope to establish with the customer, due to the limits found in the online management of the contract with "190 DIY 'and my difficulties in interpreting the monthly fee required by the contract paper, which talks a bit' generation of "Internet Easy" without specifying clearly which tariff level means within subdivisions (Easy, Easy Large, Easy Small, Easy Night), which in turn increased charges from 10 to 30 euros per month, differences are not negligible especially in the long term.