Sim cards for Broadband

jebervic

Just about to get a Haewei 586 MI-FI dongle on 3, but wanted to know if I can use an ordinary mobile phone card in it? the price plans for braodband are not as good the normal phone PAYG sims, i.e for £15 a month I can get all you can eat data or the one plan for £25 a month, whereas the PAYG Broadband gives me just 1gb for £10 and 3gb for £21.

espresso

jebervic wrote: »

Just about to get a Haewei 586 MI-FI dongle on 3, but wanted to know if I can use an ordinary mobile phone card in it? the price plans for braodband are not as good the normal phone PAYG sims, i.e for £15 a month I can get all you can eat data or the one plan for £25 a month, whereas the PAYG Broadband gives me just 1gb for £10 and 3gb for £21.

It may initially work but expect it to suddenly stop working when their system notices that you are not using it in a handset.

samwsmith1

I remember on click they said that the one play allows tethering currently, so I would see no problem with using it in the way you have described.
http://blog.three.co.uk/2011/06/02/tethering-your-smartphone-on-three/

espresso

samwsmith1 wrote: »

I remember on click they said that the one play allows tethering currently, so I would see no problem with using it in the way you have described.
http://blog.three.co.uk/2011/06/02/tethering-your-smartphone-on-three/

Wrong.

Tethering is totally different to putting the mobile SIM into a broadband dongle.

See here

samwsmith1

You could always just buy a cheap android phone then and setup wifi tethering instead of a MiFi.

jebervic

It is just more convenient to have a seperate dongle, my wife has the one plan and a HTC which we can tether from, but her phone is then tied up, I cannot see what they discriminate against using a phone sim, thethering is effectively using it as a dongle.

so will it work or not? or will it be turned off at some point?, having said that, if its PAYG sim card and its on the £15 all you can eat data, surely it will take them more than a month to spot it , by which time its time to top up again

espresso

jebervic wrote: »

It is just more convenient to have a seperate dongle, my wife has the one plan and a HTC which we can tether from, but her phone is then tied up, I cannot see what they discriminate against using a phone sim, thethering is effectively using it as a dongle.

so will it work or not? or will it be turned off at some point?, having said that, if its PAYG sim card and its on the £15 all you can eat data, surely it will take them more than a month to spot it , by which time its time to top up again

Each device has a unique IMEI number and they can tell from this what type of device the SIM is being used in. They never used to check this but they do now!

samwsmith1

Personally I can't see there been much of a difference between using a MiFi and a phone, but other people do.

espresso

samwsmith1 wrote: »

Personally I can't see there been much of a difference between using a MiFi and a phone, but other people do.

You have shown that your knowledge on this subject is zilch, so why advise others!

Why do you think that they charge a different rate for data on these SIMS?

jebervic

espresso wrote: »

Each device has a unique IMEI number and they can tell from this what type of device the SIM is being used in. They never used to check this but they do now!

Not doubting you at all, but there are a hell of lot of numbers to check up on

jebervic

Just looking on amazon and you can get 3gb of preloaded data for £11.85, seems pretty good to me or 1gb for £5.99