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I think you will find that the dongle costs €69 to buy, then you buy top-ups on top at €60 a time I believe. That credit is then valid for up to 3 months, but won't last long with heavy usage as a contract connection is about €60 per month.

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The deal is as follows.
You buy the dongle. Vodafone have two on offer, the €59 one mentioned and
another at €69 (incl. IVA). While the more expensive one has a better
technical specification, it's largely wasted as Vodafone limit the speed to a
maximum of 1M bit/second - so you can't take advantage of the higher
speeds.
Either of these two dongles comes with 150Mbyte of usage. This is the total
of data you send and data you receive (though in practice people receive
more than they send). So if you send 1MByte to access websites and receive
11 MByte back, that counts as 12MByte off your 150 MByte allocation. I
found that in the 10 days after I got my dongle, I used about 120MByte, but in
fairness a significant amount of that was when all my software discovered it
had an internet connection and started downloading updates - without my
realising, grrrr. Having said that, even loading the front page on the BBC
website uses over 1 MByte.
If you're not a heavy user and don't need 150MB, anything you haven't used
after 3 months is lost.
To top up, you have 4 options:

1. an extra 150MB, this costs €19 incl. IVA and lasts another 3 months
2. an extra 400MB. This costs €39 and lasts 3 months
3. an extra 1000MB. This will cost €59 and lasts 3 months
4. an unlimited amount of megabytes, this costs €59 and lasts one month

The leaflet you get with the dongle explains how to top up. Briefly, you get a
SIM in the dongle and a phone number as well. You can send SMS from the
dongle - but not voice calls. You buy credit for the phone number as
usual: in a shop, by phone or from vodafone's internet site (the spanish site,
not the english one). Then you send an SMS from the dongle to to say
how much of the credit you want transferred into megabytes, as above The
code you send states which option you buy.

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Well worth a Karma. :thumbup:

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Great bit of info clear for me to understand HEHE will look it up Thanks:D

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Yes thanks great info

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Agreed and given! :thumbsup:

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My husband is in Playa Flamenca just now and went to buy the Vodaphone dongle but they are sold out, not expecting more until next week.

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Do you need to be in a hot spot area for dongles to work ??How can I find out if Algorfa is in a hot spot ????
Sorry to be so ill informed , I only use PCs after they are set up for me havent a clue really other than typing with two fingers :confused: I really would hate to be in Spain with no PC.;)