Mate, you know I love my gadgets and technology, a complete enphusiast who encouridges others, but I really think the '4G' model is a waste of time anywhere outside of the states.
1) Does the countrie(s) you go to support LTE? www.quora.com/What-countries-currently-support-4G-LTE
2) If you're using a UK chip, then despite allowances, they don't work abroad, so inside europe you'll be paying about [can't remember exactly] £2/mb, if you're outside of europe, then you're looking at about £6/mb (seriously, I ran 222mb @ £6/mb by accident in one day, in north cyprus).
3) At 75mb/s, or whatever it is exactly, for maths lets say it runs at 50mb/s, a 5GB monthly allouance will be potentially complete inside 1 minute and 40 seconds.

The only way it would be worth it, is if you go to just one of those LTE countries, and get a local datacard for that country, but be locked into some kind of PAYG or monthly contract, which'll odds are it'll fill up straight away.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 21:58, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

I am going to be spending a lot of time in the states with work in future.
They are paying all costs apart from purchase & extended warranty, both of which I can claim back against tax. So I can't really lose.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 21:59, Reply)

Where in the US?

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 22:04, Reply)

Dallas, Houston, Seattle and NY.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 22:04, Reply)

Dallas is fucking superb
My second favourite US City after Portland OR.

Houston I don't know at all, Seattle I've not spent much time in, NY is just a huge blob.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 22:08, Reply)

I hate NY after 36 hours there (been there at least 30 times over the last 8 years). Like Seattle - much more laid back than a lot of other places in the US. Yet to go to Dallas.
I know the states quite well, working at Coca-Cola I spent loads of time in Atlanta (often 6 weeks at a time), also spent quite a bit in San Diego, Arkansas (Bentonville) and Chicago (which I dislike almost as much as NY).

Went to Boston at Christmas and liked it.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 22:12, Reply)

There's only 3 States I've not visited.
Worked in Dallas for 6 weeks - I like San Diego, I love Chicago - get away from the touristy bits.

Never spent much time in Boston though.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 22:21, Reply)

Oh sweet ! in which case, *well jelly*, totally sweet.
Do you have a mac at home? You could use it to video-chat with the misses'n'kid.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 22:04, Reply)

Mrs has a Mac, I have a Lenovo, 16 gb ram, 500gb solid state hard drive, running W7Ulimate 64.
Love the speed of it, only problem is it's really heavy to carry about.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 22:06, Reply)

I reckon Facetime would be useful to you both then.
16gb ram in a laptop? I donno how that...[goes to ebuyer]... Woh', when did 8gb laptop dimms come out? That's some expensive kit, whats the screen like? How comes you got such high end kit, I can't imagine you coming close to using that much spec.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 22:13, Reply)

I used to use some very RAM heavy db software. That's the only reason.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 22:16, Reply)

Must be a big DB, and/or have some kind of caching/optimisation issues.
The DB would have to take up most of the HD to need that kind of requirement.

Not saying that the DBA or whatever is at fault, some systems don't scale and it's unforceable, if something doesn't take up any seconds, then timsing that by a million percent DB growth is still going to show a 0% time increase.... if you get what I mean.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 9 Mar 2012, 22:29, Reply)