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Relevant for Australians only, most likely:
My netbook's an EEE PC 1000H and I've a Huawei E169 USB modem, locked to the Optus network (in Australia), which I've been using for a while now. I'm on the 6GB plan at $59.95 a month, and usually go over it, although you can set things up to get an email and SMS sent when you hit 80% and 100% of your data allowance. Both download and uploads are counted towards the quota, and once you hit 100% you get charged by the megabyte. You can go up or down in your plan once a month, or can do the pre-paid route.
Before that I used my Telstra NextG phone to use the internet, before the largest "BrowsePlus Pack" went from 2GB to 750mb ... for the same price! Rip-off! However, since then I realise that the Telstra wireless at the uppermost is $120 for 10GB, after which you are shaped and not charged, and seeing as I go over my data with Optus to the tune of twenty dollars or so, I should have just gone with Telstra in the end.
Keeping the browsing speed up -- I use Opera as a browser, and I find the new "Turbo" setting of version 10.x to be very useful, in the images loading -- toggling of images is quick and easy too, and one can set videos to not automatically load upon webpage opening.
Pretty happy with what I've got; I don't have a landline, or a fixed address, and so the portability of a netbook and wireless broadband is very nifty indeed.
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