What would you name as the number one advantage of a 3G wireless mobile broadband connection of Wi-Fi? Obviously it would not be cost. Very often a WiFi connection can be found that is free. And Wi-Fi allows more than one user to tap into the network at a time. Such as when you have your landline based broadband sent into a wireless router at your home. Dongles for laptops allow one computer to operate at a time.
An important yet seldom discussed benefit of using mobile broadband and a dongle to connect to the internet is security. Dongles running on a 3G network have built in encryption from the signal source to your laptop's dongle and of course in reverse for uploads. This means that should your wireless signal containing private or sensitive data be spliced into in midair the built in encryption makes deciphering that data extraordinarily difficult. And don