General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Sorry, I should not go over folk's heads.

Put simply, by accident I found myself with a laptop which could have used the same networks to get online as smartphones use.

I wanted to ask if anyone could speak to the desirability of such a feature.

However, I have now ordered instead a replacement device that amounts to a second hard drive on the lappy.

I do not like to put Windows and Linux partitions on the same drive: having them on physically separate drives avoids lots of potential problems. Easily done on desktop device, which usually can easily have extra drives added.

So, I have elected to have the latter feature on lappy, in lieu of using the networks used by smartphones.

It would have given me a way round the appalling constraints of our monopoly broadband supplier, but would be a very expensive option.

I occasionally do something called 'tethering', which uses my smartphone connection to link my computer to the net: it is expensive though, and the data caps are very low.