Mobile Broadband anyone use it?

fayraz

Hi,

I work from home all week and wanted a wireless solution for broadband and the best option looks like the Mobile Broadband one.

Does anyone use it; the 3 network have a very good deal on at the moment, £10 p/m for 3 G/B. But I am not sure how good 3's service is.

Also T-Mobile have it at £29 p/m for 3 G/B, can anyone recommend any?

I work in Shipley, Bradford.

Thanks.

BenL

Hi

I have deabted the 3 deal myself but not sure about how much usage allowance I use every month.

If you are working you may use more than 3Gb a month.

I would recommend you use Virgin Broadband and a wireless network.

Shipley is probably all cabled up isn't it?

I used to live in Silsden and Steeton and Virgin had dug up all around there.

You don't need to take a phoneline for this hence me advising Virgin over a BT ADSL solution.

fayraz

BenL wrote: »

Hi

I have deabted the 3 deal myself but not sure about how much usage allowance I use every month.

If you are working you may use more than 3Gb a month.

I would recommend you use Virgin Broadband and a wireless network.

Shipley is probably all cabled up isn't it?

I used to live in Silsden and Steeton and Virgin had dug up all around there.

You don't need to take a phoneline for this hence me advising Virgin over a BT ADSL solution.

Is it a good reliable connection and speed with 3?

jammin_2

For simple web browsing / email it should be fine. Anything more, especially VoIP, forget it.

Incidentally, Three in Ireland charge only €19.99 a month for a 10gb allowance.
http://www.three.ie/broadband/datamodem.htm

fayraz

jammin wrote: »

For simple web browsing / email it should be fine. Anything more, especially VoIP, forget it.

Thats exactly what I am going to use it for, simple web browsing and emails. But being a 3 phone customer when they first come out I was not impressed with phone coverage and just wanted to know if their internet service is up to scratch because they are the cheapest.

jammin_2

fayraz wrote: »

Thats exactly what I am going to use it for, simple web browsing and emails. But being a 3 phone customer when they first come out I was not impressed with phone coverage and just wanted to know if their internet service is up to scratch because they are the cheapest.

Theoretically, it should be the best out of all the 3G networks' mobile broadband offerings on the basis that Three have more tenure (and by proxy more experience) as a 3G network. In reality, things may be different. Hopefully someone who's used it for any length of time will come on soon and give you the answers you need. I used it for VoIP and it sucked, but that's due to the nature of VoIP, not really a fault of Three's service nor was Three's intended use.