Thanks for the reply. My question was about models that came to market after the K3 and which, afaik, never have had 3G internet access except for Amazon and Wikipedia.
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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
There has been anecdotal evidence on the Kindle forums that Amazon has imposed limits on the 3G connections on their K3 Kindle Keyboard devices.
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IIRC, when I looked this up a couple of months ago, there was a 250MB BW cap not including Amazon. *Maybe* it was only 125MB, I forget.
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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
Most of that chatter on the old Kindle forum about using 3G on the browser on Amazon has all but disappeared over the past 12 months as those older devices age out of use.
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There are still lots of K2's and K3's offerred on Craigslist and probably on eBay as well although I've not looked there. I was looking at getting one for emergency backup internet access that would never cost anything more than the price of the Kindle.
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The last time I tried to use the browser on my second gen Paperwhite, it wouldn't connect to any site using wifi except for the Calibre Content Server.
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This is not my experience. Some sites will not load properly, but they will all connect over WiFi. If you care, you should try again connecting to a different router.
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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
(There is no 3G on my Paperwhite.) Most web sites overwhelm that old sluggish browser, and while it was a nice tool in 2009, it is useless by today's standards IMO.
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Actually, I use the experimental browser with fairly good results today with my Voyage and Basic 2015. The trick is to disable javascript and images, then when you have opened a site, switch to "article view." When it works, it looks better than a webpage in a standard browser, because it's all text, no ads or extraneous content and it's displayed in e-ink. Over WiFi, it loads pages in about the same time as a regular browser on a desktop or phone. I can read most newspapers and magazine and blogs. It's far from perfect but with useful sites already bookmarked, it does work.