What would you do ?

pennyshahin_2

Hi just after some advice please i'm currently on talktalk option 3 home and phone broadband, but me and my wife are moving in with her brother-it will ony be for a year or so and he's on ntlworld and they are on a low user scheme with BT and he's ben a bit funny about changing the phone over and gave me a lecture about how he's got 40 years of work saved on his computer ,i dont really need the aggro, so i thought i'd go for a mobile broadband monthly deal i do quite alot of browsing so i was looking at the t mobile £149 12 month pre payment deal its unlimited browsing with 2g data allowance per monh , couple of questions how do you know if you've gone over your allowance, is it anywhere near as good as a landline, i've got free AVG which i update daily will that eat in to my allowance, not really sure what to do if it was for longer i'd probably ask the brother if i could have a second line put in,how much is 2g i browse quite alot mainly ebay, this site ,banking, download music occassionally, do online banking, watch you tube once in a blue moon, i'd like to know what you would do.

marms

It can't be unlimited browsing if there's a 2gb data allowace, every time you go to a web page there's data sent and recieved over the network.

HTML200

The T-Mobile site says they won't charge for exceeding the 2gb limit, but they will 'restrict access'. Whatever that means. And it's difficult to know how stable or fast the connection will be until you buy it. Based on your internet browsing, you don't seem to be a big downloader but it's fairly easy to exceed 2gb, especially if you download music or watch youtube.

I'd be tempted to take a safer option and get a 2nd line put in.

macman

Can you clarify what broadband service your BIL has-you said 'ntlworld', by which I assume you mean Virgin Media cable service? If so the low user BT scheme (BT Basic?) is not relevant to the broadband, although you can have broadband on this service, unlike the old BT Light User scheme.
Assuming you are using your own laptop, how can you sharing broadband affect his PC, unless they're networked.
If he has a wireless cable router, you can just share that connection and offer to pay half his VM bill.
If not wireless, you can offer to upgrade his old cable modem/router.
much cheaper and faster than any mobile broadband service.
Alternatively sign up for a cheap ADSL service on the BT line, something like Plusnet Value (10GB cap) at £5.99pm on a Market 3 exchange.