The Freedom of Dongle Broadband
Being able to do a lot of my work online is great, it allows me to pretty much choose where I want to live without the constant worry of good train connections to work. As long as I live somewhere with a broadband availability, I’ll be fine.
Although I have a good wireless internet connection at home, I have troubles when I have to travel. Trying to juggle my work time and my family time can be time consuming. Wireless hotspots for the times I have to work away from home can be useful but sometimes a troublesome and costly means of getting work done. The encouragement I give my children to take up outdoor activities is obviously good for them, but not necessarily good for my time management when I need to make time to drop them off and pick them up from various events.
A solution would be to get mobile internet access and a dongle seems a good way to get that access on the few occasions I need it. Quite simply all I need do with the stick is plug and play and I have mobile broadband. I don’t know why I didn’t consider mobile broadband for laptops earlier. Although there weren’t any connection problems, I did consider the mobile broadband speed to be slower compared to my fixed line broadband connection at home.
I have to admit though; I think mobile broadband is wonderful in terms of accessibility and flexibility, no more Wi-fi hotspots for me.