That's right; it's '3 mobile broadband' Pay As You Go internet connection
provided by the 3 mobile phone network.
It works via a 'dongle' that you plug into a USB port.

"Gordon" wrote:

> "Tristan" <Tristan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E4B853F4-FED8-422A-BDE0-37F4D68DD8EA@microsoft.com...
> > Windows asks me to 'Select a Network Location', for example 'Public'.
> > My ISP is called '3', so Windows will call that connection '3 1'. The next
> > time I connect it will call it '3 2' & etc;, I am presently on '3 57'!
> > Is this a normal state of affairs?
> >
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> When you say "3", is this the mobile phone network "3"?
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