First of all - contrary to all reports I've seen, the USB stick can plug straight into the MacBook Air without use of a USB extender cable, as long as you make no sudden movements to dislodge it.

It works very well - except for one omission in the user manual - which held me up for much longer than necessary:

- The accompanying SIM card has to be activated by Vodaphone (call their helpdesk and go through a large number of call-centre options until you get to speak with a human), this then takes around 15 minutes, and suddenly the whole thing springs into life, and just works!

(That is after you run the "Vodafone mobile connect" software as "root" once to set permissions correctly - after that you can run it as any user).

I've even tried this with streaming video from my SlingBox (for short periods of time) with no serious problems.

Excellent!

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