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Then my nephew contacted me and suggested that I could try a HUAWEI Mobile WiFi hotspot modemthat they had been offering for sometime. He thought it could be more reliable on low signal strengths thanthe USB dongle. So out he came again and I used it for free for a week and then decided to buy.Huawei Mobile WiFi Modem with optional antennaThere are still some problems. I had to take the modem off the “Auto” setting and lock it to 3G, as whenthe 3G signal was a bit low the modem would find a strong 2G signal and lock onto that. 2G was about asfast as dial up. The only way to get off 2G was to turn the modem off and reboot. Now with the settingchange it will only look at 3G signals.If the network is very busy when other users are downloading movies, looking at YouTube, and playing online games etc. the download speeds become very slow.However if I pick the right times I can now look at YouTube myself and look at my place with GoogleMaps and hopefully get AF&V magazine downloaded in lickety split time.So I am partly on the way to the digital world that all you other lucky, lucky, lucky people have been enjoyingall this time.I am looking forward to the next issue of this magazine and even looking at some of the offerings on“Movie Link”.John LawrieAUSTRALIAN FILM & VIDEO—VOL 20 WINTER 2013Page 51