This is just an FYI. I was in England a while back for a month and the place I was staying didn't have broadband so I picked up a ZTE MF823 4G dongle from Three to use with my Thinkpad T430.
Couldn't have been easier, just plugged it in and it showed up as a wired connection. This was with Wheezy.
I don't know about other dongles, this is the first I've ever used, but it has a decent built in web server so it's easy to check your data usage, send and receive text messages. It also worked fine when all I had was 3G.
For anyone else in a similar situation, about Three, they are pretty easy to deal with. The dongle is only available with a contract, but they do 1 month contracts, which worked fine in my case it just mean I had to buy the dongle for £39, the £15 for 5gb of data.
I guess it may sound like a lot, but my TP isn't WWAN enabled and this was cheaper than adding the bits to use a SIM in my laptop.
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ZTE MF823 data dongle
ZTE MF823 data dongle
Tom Rowe
Four wheel drive allows you to get stuck
in places even more inaccessible.
Four wheel drive allows you to get stuck
in places even more inaccessible.