Mobile Broadband Is Not Wi-Fi!

I did used to have quite a few misconceptions about what mobile broadband is. I did think that for example that Wi-Fi was basically the same as mobile broadband, and that would be incorrect.

I can take my pay as you go mobile broadband almost anywhere and be connected to the Internet, that is not true of Wi-Fi, which requires that you are very close to a Wi-Fi hotspot in order to make use of its wireless connection. I was also under the impression that I needed a Wi-Fi connection in order to connect to mobile broadband that also is not the case.

Another concept that I had was that mobile broadband only connected me to small less useful versions of websites via my mobile phone. My mobile broadband connection is via my laptop for full versions of websites whenever I need them.

Many people think they can only use your mobile broadband connection in your home country that is not so. In this sense, it is like your mobile phone in that you will pay additional fees to connect to a roaming broadband connection, but you can use it in most countries around the world.

Setup is also very straightforward and takes literally two or three minutes with a dongle or USB modem, these items are plug and play which means that you plug them in and click to automatically connect you to the Internet, is that simple.

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