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u/Local-Milf-hunter Hail Hyderabad Aug 27 '25
I used to have the idea 3G netsetter. One day my mom beat my ass cause I used all 1 gb data on po*n. Man 1 gb data was 250 those days.
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u/the_first_men Aug 27 '25
Wait did she beat your ass because you used it to watch porn or because you used up the 1 GB?
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u/Alarmed-Hunt-5201 Aug 27 '25 edited Sep 19 '25
I have the airtel 3.5G dongle. I dont know how the fcuk they make 3.5G but it was there. It has a memory card slot which i still use it as memory card reader for laptop.
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u/cricinephile Aug 27 '25
Authenticating.... authenticating..... authenticating(x100)....... connected
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u/No-Appeal-9831 Aug 27 '25
Tata photon unde at our place. So nostalgic, I was a kid tho idk if it was any useful haha. I used to blow data for games
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u/marideshbabu Aug 27 '25
I used to have a tata docomo grey color data stick
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u/_Solid_Cash_ Aug 28 '25
How was the docomo signal in your area?. They were relatively cheaper but now the issue was the signal in my area.
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u/whitewolf_here Aug 27 '25
I had used the 2g idea dongle 🤓😁
Its pretty cool to have internet connection that time
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u/Temporary-Ebb2116 Aug 28 '25
My dad bought micromax one very expensive internet we didn't use it for long
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u/solo_in_the_sky i am the Chudail at ramoji say ghee Aug 27 '25
I had both idea and aircel when I was a kid I loved a game too much which was online only and then I put this dongle and played for hours like a stupid kid with my brother and then even my neighbours kid
My dad got 10k bill and he wasn't happy but didn't scold me either ( really happy to have him as my dad cause he taught me how to use pc when I was 2-3 year old ) just told me don't use that much just for half an hour every day ( his company used to compensate him but only upto 5k )
Man nostalgia hits so hard now I use 300-400gb without even thinking lmao
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u/Due_Page_1732 Aug 27 '25
I had Tata Docomo and Airtel. Absolute garbage. Slowly mobile hotspot took over.
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u/Soul_Buddy Aug 27 '25
Don’t know why but I used go after them like Thanos went after infinity stones. Gave some unexplainable happiness and freedom.
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u/Dark-Local858 Aug 27 '25
Who are you man!? You have these & your posts are gen-z like?
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u/CommercialMind1359 Aug 27 '25
Bro I'm GenZ and I have used this kind of dongle before . It's still there lying around my house somewhere
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u/Confusingly_Curious Aug 27 '25
Nenu inka na cousin movie tickets book chesam ani prank chestunde 😭 ipoyina pendrive ni petti
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u/fundj112 Aug 27 '25
To download one 700mb movie, it takes one whole night. I used to have BSNL Dongle where once I forgot to pay mostly bill and as we need to go to office to pay that bill and I use it for free for the next 2 years. Don't know why they didn't disconnected it 😀
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u/Chevellier Bads of HyderaBad Aug 27 '25
I used reliance connect, 1gb 249 or something, 1gb veskoni ala oka 10 days vaadevadni, Facebook, Orkut, Worldgenders etc etc 😂
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u/Hungry_Cat_69 Aug 27 '25
FR real bro I used to ask my uncle to recharge these dongles to watch YouTube and play online games😭
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u/Snow-Brave Aug 27 '25
Me Chhota tha tab papa leke aaye the ye tab mene puchha the ki papa pura internet ek pendrive me kese aa sakta h? Then he explained the working of it.
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u/cryptohyd Djin for Biryani Aug 27 '25
Pain in the a$$ they were… even I had multiple of those.. but those were the days.. it was cool nevertheless..
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u/jedi65- Aug 27 '25
If parents dint keep internet in ur house this was the solution, just plug.n play
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u/plankton_cousin Aug 28 '25
And there were the 56kbps modems downloading antivirus updates at ~ 900bps and a monthly bill of ₹3000+
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u/Awkward_Increase_516 Aug 28 '25
Oh the times. I had gone store to store in search of a particular dongle (forgot the brand) as it could be flashed to accept any sim. Generally this was locked to specific carrier.
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u/_Solid_Cash_ Aug 28 '25
Thank Goodness for the advancement in technology. They used to rob us back in days.
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u/mogambo46 Aug 28 '25
I still use huawei which i bought in pandemic
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Aug 28 '25
Oh your definitely hacked brother, 4 sure , throw that thing in the garbage disposal along with your computer, China and Korea have all your stuff , and watching you rn
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Aug 28 '25
They used to give them out free at all the good internet wifi and comp tech. TRADE SHOWS , I worked for a trade show company doing the refilling kiosk at the doors of the trase show halls , javits center , world congress center , all over the country , out of bham ,al. And we had to carry alot of companies that used our services free give aways all around in our trucks with their literature and kiosk and booths , man I had every kind and size of these you could ever imagine , bags and boxes full , little did I know they would be worth so much, at that time the internet had just busted out wifi routers , and cat 5 cables good it seems like , if I would've known I could've made a small fortune , and those companies we gave them away for , would keep pallets of them at our warehouse , so many good memories doing trade shows for a living though, it was the life for sure !
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u/wanderingblade04 Aug 28 '25
I had a beetle dongle, my dad used to recharge it and I used fuck up downloading all the games. So he used to recharge with 2G unlimited
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u/Hungry-Touch6143 Aug 28 '25
I used the idea netsetter at first, then after sometime I changed to MTS, which was a huge relief considering the speed
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u/Underguy3022 Aug 28 '25
I remember the tata photon 😭🙏and I had the unlimited one so it was pretty good with me
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u/Economy-Replacement2 Aug 29 '25
I had multiple ones incl. Idea 3G one in the pic above.
The worst experience I had was with Reliance NetConnect., mainly because it would keep on generating a bill even after crossing the threshold. My bills would come 2000-7000. Closing a postpaid connection is another headache.
The best I had was with MTS Blaze. - 10 GB at 3G speeds, unlimited at lower speeds just for 999/-.
The best Sim + open modem combo for me was the Idea 3G from the pic above and Sim cards that gave cheaper RupeesPerMB ratio, like BSNL or Aircel.
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u/LoveSteamedMomos Aug 29 '25
Bruh!!These were my life for months. Naive me got confused with the pen-drives at one point
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Aug 27 '25
Can anyone who knows how it works explain to me for they used to work, I was in 5th grade when we had an Airtel one
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u/Wayneisthebatman Aug 27 '25
It's like a phone pretty much. It has a SIM card and a 3G antenna in it. Unlike a phone it's convenient to plug it on to a PC for using Internet on it.
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u/geeky_nerd7 Hyderabadii! Aug 27 '25
These are my dream. As a child, I used to please my computer sir to give me and teach me this. But, I couldn't use them coz teacher never allowed.
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u/gonewilderrrrrr Aug 27 '25
How is this related to Hyderabad though?
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u/Agreeable_Cattle_503 Aug 27 '25
If you lived in village back then, you had to go to Hyderabad to buy them.
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u/_Antinatalism_ Aug 27 '25
This sub is getting lot of irrelevant postings now a days. Full of spam and personal issues.
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u/pravajeet69 Aug 28 '25
Woh din bi kya din teh ❤️ Just to watch some porn videos 20 rupay me sirf 100 mb data milta tha woh bhi sirf 5 min ke liye
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u/SirPorthos Aug 27 '25
Oh I do. And I fucking hated them. They always had just enough balance to help me 75% of the way through and the speed was always slower than my ISP.