Microsoft Surface Pro 3 (Advice please)

[Cleoriff]

I have recently acquired a Microsoft Surface Pro 3. It's great.

I am away in Yarmouth for the first weekend of Formula One! The site has Wifi but it's limited.

I can watch F1 via Sky streaming on the Pro  but I have a few queries....(Deep breath)

* I don't think this Pro has a sim slot so I presume I will be able to use a dongle with a 4G sim?

OR....I could do something I have never tried in my life......

* Tethering from my mobile phone....

I need advice on what would be the best to do?.

(Please be aware that any advice I'm given (about tethering)  needs to be very very specific and guaranteed to work. Probably something I could try before I leave for the weekend? (24th March)

Thanks all...

[viridis · Accepted solution]

Use the 4G Dongle you got for the note pro.
Same situation. Set up and power on the dongle, give it 5 minutes then connect to its wifi broadcast.
Easy innit

[Cleoriff]

Thanks...I had forgotten about that.

I know this may be a daft question to those in the know... but would using a separate dongle always be better than tethering from your mobile?

[MI5]

You don't have enough data on your phone to tether the entire race so I'd only do it on wifi or from a dongle with loadsa data.
Last full race I streamed used 3gb

[Cleoriff]

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@MI5 wrote:
You don't have enough data on your phone to tether the entire race so I'd only do it on wifi or from a dongle with loadsa data.
Last full race I streamed used 3gb

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3gb? I could never do that then as only got a 2gb plan...!!

So next question. I would need to get a data sim with 4G capability (they do get it in this area lol) and probably from Three? (sorry O2)

[MI5]

You could buy a bolt on if you do get an o2 signal or three will give you 12gb for 15 quid.

[Anonymous]

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@MI5 wrote:
You could buy a bolt on if you do get an o2 signal or three will give you 12gb for 15 quid.

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Even abroad? That is a great price if so.

[MI5]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@MI5 wrote:
You could buy a bolt on if you do get an o2 signal or three will give you 12gb for 15 quid.

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Even abroad? That is a great price if so.

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In any of their "feel at home" countries.

[Cleoriff]

Well the dongle I thought I had when my other half had the Note Pro has 'been sold' so I am told However, I have discovered a 3 mobile broadband dongle I had some time back when our internet went down. I presume it willl still work on my Surface pro. I know I need a new sim...

[viridis]

Your surface should have a standard usb port so you can insert the dongle in that and then just add a sim card with data into it.
The dongles have the software installation files built in so you just need to install it into surface