GSM (GPRS/EDGE) vs Dial UP

[Legosa]

I need to provide internet access to a squash club which I belong to. The computer sits in the office permanetly. Internet will mainly be used to download email and sometimes browsing. I have been looking into two options.

GSM

1) Need cellphone with GPRS/EDGE
2) Need datacable (not bluetooth as lady running office has minimal PC skills)
3) Prepaid preferably as don't want to 24 month contract restrictions.
4) CellC(Virgin) might be an option, but Secunda has only GPRS.


DIAL UP

1) Need modem
2) Need ISP
3) Can dial-up after hours.


Any help or advice on these options would be appreciated.

[Napalm]

GPRS is cheap (specially at Virgin Mobile wich is 50cents per meg)
"1mb = 1024kb" therefor u can send 28 emails with 35kb file attachments for ruffly 50cents(for the connection to run also chow's a bit of data but not much)

So for sending emails, and chatting on irc GPRS is very affordable.

A R50 voucher will get u 100mb of GPRS data at Virgin Mobile. I doubt that you'll send that much in emails a month, unless u send huge pictures or large word/excel documents.

Also note that GPRS / Cellphone connections aren't always that reliable vs Dailup..

Also note, Cheap cellphones with GPRS have poor stability / signal quality..
And a internet connection needs highest Signal Quality..