Until August 3, Coles is selling the basic Vodafone prepaid 3G dongle (with 3GB of data) for $24.50 — half the standard list price. That’s a cheap way of getting internet access, though it does require the usual Vodafone performance warning. [Coles via OzBargain]
Coles Selling Vodafone 3G Dongle For Half-Price

I would not take it even if it was free!!!
I Will take if they give me $30 to try.
I scored one of these free with my last laptop purchase. It even came with 3 months access.
It was so useless I never even used the whole 3 months up, let alone continued the service.
I’m only 3km from the centre of Adelaide and couldn’t even maintain a connection, let alone actually access anything. Downloading email attachments were pretty much guaranteed to bring everything to a screaming halt.
Even my old POS Optoss 3G ‘soap on a rope’ modem is better than that!
Even free, the thing cost too much of my time. Tel$tra may be more expensive, but my time isn’t free either.