Blogs & Data usage

Submitted: Thursday, Apr 28, 2011 at 16:13
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Hi every one,
My apologies for this long winded story.
Tues next wk we are leaving Bris for NT & WA for 7mths caravan travel.
We plan to free camp as much as possible.
I have a blog set up for family & friends to follow us on our travels.
I would like to upload more photos than words into the blog if possible.
We will also be doing the other internet things such as emails, banking, skypeing family, etc.

I was planning on buying an Elite Next G pre paid internet USB dongle today, so as to capture the bonus ?2G of data allowance when buying 10GB for 12mths for $150.
I didn’t really want to be locked into contracts for 12 or 24mths. (will do so if need be)
I’ve worked out the costing of buying say 20GB data plus the pre paid ‘Elite’ dongle, as apposed to 12mths plan buying the ‘Ultimate’ outright for only 1GB per month, & “use it or lose it”.

The girl in the Telstra shop was helpful, & thought that the prepaid ‘Elite’ would be very slow for uploading photos and use ? 1GB per dozen or so photos. (her words, not mine)
She also suggested that the “Ultimate” dongle would have better out of town coverage & be a lot faster.
We have an aerial on the car & will have a patch cable.

I have 2 questions for you folk who have lots of experience with blogs & data usage with photos etc ‘Elite’ vs ‘Ultimate’ dongles
1 – how much data would be used for eg 10 photos upload, & how much time involved in uploading same?
2 – is the Telstra girl right in saying that uploading for eg 10 pics would take forever & maybe not be as good marginally out of town - (I could of course plan my blog entries & other internet stuff whilst in a van park!)

Thank you in advance
Sue
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