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I  picked up a Huawei E160G USB Modem for the 3 network and must say that I’ve been happily impressed with it so far (despite 3’s crappy 10GB usage cap).

I’m sitting here writing this, in the office at work, which is a complete cell phone dead zone. I have zero reception in here on my cell phone, nor do any of my colleagues and we all have different services.

Yet, here I sit with my 3 modem seeing 4 bars (out of 5) on HSDPA. Most impressive.

One issue I did have was that after purchasing the modem I had to go to my3.three.ie in order to register and activate it and couldn’t as that particular site has been down all day.

A quick, toll free call to 3’s tech support (in India) sorted things out and thankfully the techie at the other end of the line decided to throw the manual out, listen to what I had to say and didn’t make me walk through the usual steps of uninstall, restart, install, restart etc.. etc..

I was up and running in minutes and even managed to enjoy a Skype video call with Sara tonight without any apparent lag or lack of quality.

I am a happy chappie!

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Tags: 3, broadband, e160g, hardware, hsdpa, huawei, internet, mobile, three, usb modem