As soon as you have your laptop you need a dongle in order to get online (unless you got your laptop free with your dongle deal that is).  So which dongle should you get now that you’re ready to surf the internet, or study online?  Well this is the big question and one that all the major wireless internet providers are fighting over answering for you.

This is why this website exists, in order for you to make an informed decision based on factors that accurately represent your own requirements; basically what you need!  There’s no point in getting a dongle that you have to pay a lot for and only use half the amount of online time that it allows, or half the download allowance is there?  Why would anyone want to pay for what they don’t need?  You need to evaluate your usuage and then come back and see which dongle deal is for you.

Go away and work out just how often you’re online now at home, and how much time you’d estimate being online when you’re mobile.  This would usually be around half the time you’re on at home.  Now you’re able to check out the dongle deals online.

Well you can imagine why i think small dongles are better i’m sure, but let’s just consider the average size of the things for a moment.  They can sometimes be as big as your thumb can’t they?  Trust me, they can, and if you haven’t seen them this size or bigger then you are clearly making the right decisions.

Now having one of these big dongles can be potentially harmful for a very important reason: it could get knocked out.  Believe me, when you are on the train in the morning and it stops somewhere you don’t want to get out, and you move to allow people to squeeze past you at your table, there is a very good chance that your dongle could be pushed or otherwise dislocated from your laptop.

It’s not always the same on all laptop computers however, and some of them do allow the dongle to fit in quite nicely without leaving it sticking out the side or the back where it can cause trouble.  This happened to me once and i lost all the work i was doing on a website.

I suppose that the only benefit of having a big dongle is that you are less likely to lose it.  Having a small one is safer but a little more hard to locate when you get it lost.  There’s some food for thought folks!