3 One plan instead of VM?

Zebrdee

Would I save money switching to 3's One plan instead of Virgin Media's broadband? Need tethering for the computer to access the internet, so it'd be £15 instead of £36 a month. Any comments?

Buzby

No. VM can give you up to 120Mb, with a uplink of 12Mb. 3UK's service is good (for mobile) but is most certainly not a BB replacement. It will slow down at peak times considerably more than VM ever would.

I use it as a fell back for the odd time VM goes down as I need resilience, but is certainly isn't a like-for-like alternative.

im-lost

Buzby wrote: »

No. VM can give you up to 120Mb, with a uplink of 12Mb. 3UK's service is good (for mobile) but is most certainly not a BB replacement. It will slow down at peak times considerably more than VM ever would.

I use it as a fell back for the odd time VM goes down as I need resilience, but is certainly isn't a like-for-like alternative.

I'm using it as a broadband replacement.

Do people actually need 120mb? I'd guess at no. The majority of the UK have speeds of less than 10% of that. The majority of things work perfectly fine with less than 2% of that. All the streaming services work without issue.

Buzby

Have made use of mobile streaming? The point is not about sing what you have to the full, but the ability to have enough bandwidth when you need it. As mobile BB contention rates are massive when compared to ADSL at 20:1 and Cable 10:1, anyone expecting to watch say, a movie from Netflix successfully will depend on when you do t, and where you are.

It certainly is no workable alternative. 4G perhaps, but that was the argument put forward for 3G also.