Ovivomobile is it second best to dial up

Happychappy

I have for some reason, must have been a drunken haze, ordered a sim data card with Ovivomobile for my Ipad, I always get the three month 3gb loaded card from 3 through Amazon for around £11,, but in true MSE style I thought I would save money and get the £15 sim only data card giving 750mb per month

WRONG choice :mad:

I would be quicker writing a note and sending it by speckled Jim my faithful pigeon than trying to use Ovivomobile which I believe uses Vodafone ?

Checking the coverage on Vodafone I should be getting good reception, but timing out trying to load a web page is really back in the dark ages, two minutes to download a simple email and often not able to log in to Ovivomobile own web page?

£15 down the drain and back to Amazon for another sim data card

Anyone else had similar issues

penrhyn

Never heard of this outfit, sounds like Shooting Stars to me.

Eranu!

PS Speckled Jim, is an ex pigeon, he breaths no more, he has kicked the bucket and joined the choir eternal.

devizes18193

penrhyn wrote: »

Never heard of this outfit, sounds like Shooting Stars to me.

Eranu!

PS Speckled Jim, is an ex pigeon, he breaths no more, he has kicked the bucket and joined the choir eternal.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3981617

Happychappy

penrhyn wrote: »

Never heard of this outfit, sounds like Shooting Stars to me.

Eranu!

PS Speckled Jim, is an ex pigeon, he breaths no more, he has kicked the bucket and joined the choir eternal.

Tonight I raise my glass to the passing of Speckled Jim, and Ovivo

aerostar

Happychappy wrote: »

I have for some reason, must have been a drunken haze, ordered a sim data card with Ovivomobile for my Ipad, I always get the three month 3gb loaded card from 3 through Amazon for around £11,, but in true MSE style I thought I would save money and get the £15 sim only data card giving 750mb per month

WRONG choice :mad:

I would be quicker writing a note and sending it by speckled Jim my faithful pigeon than trying to use Ovivomobile which I believe uses Vodafone ?

Checking the coverage on Vodafone I should be getting good reception, but timing out trying to load a web page is really back in the dark ages, two minutes to download a simple email and often not able to log in to Ovivomobile own web page?

£15 down the drain and back to Amazon for another sim data card

Anyone else had similar issues

Not had an issue with mine !- you state "drunken haze" that is your problem if you did not do your research.

Also the coverage of ALL mobile providers is optomistic and are done mostly by calculations, your slow web pages are probably because you are in a good 2G area and a poor 3G area, that makes a lot of difference as the speeds are quite different.

Happychappy

aerostar wrote: »

Not had an issue with mine !- you state "drunken haze" that is your problem if you did not do your research.

Also the coverage of ALL mobile providers is optomistic and are done mostly by calculations, your slow web pages are probably because you are in a good 2G area and a poor 3G area, that makes a lot of difference as the speeds are quite different.

Thanks for recognising my problem:beer:

The real "problem" and something only you with your vast knowledge and experience would have known is, I did my research by checking with the Vodafone area coverage gizmo, and this stated I was in an area where I could expect high speed coverage for extended Internet, which I belived by the pretty colours on the Vodafone map, that I was in a good area !

Unfortunately Being a mere mortal, I was not aware that a good 3G area actually means I would be quicker with dial up, the power of optimism was not factored into my research, but thank you for pointing this out with your extremely useful and helpful comments, so Good = crap ! must remember:T back to Three where good equals good, despite how much you drink.

kwikbreaks

Despite your sarcasm aerostar is 100% correct. In many areas Three will be abysmal and Vodafone superb and the providers maps are insufficiently accurate to show this. Ofcom publish a map of the masts which can be used to get a better idea but the only way to be certain is to try it out.

http://www.sitefinder.ofcom.org.uk/

Roger1

I agree. aerostar is of course correct. The OP's sarcasm doesn't do him/herself any favours.

Everybody will have different experiences of data roaming. My Ovivo/VF is fine generally but there is one spot locally where I don't get coverage - it was fine with Orange before I changed. Just an example, but for me the advantages of Ovivo far outweigh this potential disadvantage.

To the OP: if you're fine with Three, fine. Stick with them.

And have I missed something? Why the reference to dial-up in the thread title? Have you a dial-up connection for your iPad?

kwikbreaks

There is one advantage with Three - all their masts are 3G so if you get a reasonable signal from one the data rate will probably be acceptable unless it's over subscribed.

I have a holiday caravan in Norfolk - all the nearby Vodafone (and O2, T-Mobile and Orange) masts are GSM which means at best Edge speeds typically just north of 100Kbps or double the old dial up rates. There is a snag though - my nearest Three mast is well over 2 miles away so to work I have to use an external antenna driving a MiFi I found with an external antenna port - these are hard to come by. My Three mobile won't work inside most of the time and I've just swapped over to Ovivo and that works great as a phone here but for data you'd be better off using smoke signals.

Research is essential.