The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

It is the phone contract that dictates the amount of data you have included, not the physical phone.

You can easily create a hotspot on your phone to use your phone contract's data on your PC. The other way round isn't easily done, unless you have a very new and some clever bit of kit inside your PC.

I'm sure that there are guides online to see how much data you need. I use about 2MB a month, that includes a lot of social media access (facebook/ instagram and twitter) some internet surfing and receiving about 30 emails a day (though a lot of the emails would be at home on wifi).

Parent has no social media and uses about 500kb a month

Kids do all the stuff I do and stream videos when commuting and use around 4MB.

When I move, the phone/broadband with BT will cease. I wanted to know how much data I'd used via broadband, so I could choose the correct package for a mobile phone, and/or choose to either cut back or choose a different package.

It turns out I've been using about 150GB/month on my PC/broadband.

Actual mobile phone data is negligible with me, I don't use it.

I'm confused how your kids stream videos and use just 4MB when I've just been told my bits and bobs of Facebook/MSE + a bit of BBC iPlayer amounts to so much.

I will be losing: BT landline/broadband.
I will be standing at assorted destinations unknown, with a Tesco mobile phone (package still be be checked) and a PC in my bag to unpack/connect somehow.

I will be wishing to sit and use my PC, possibly using my Tesco mobile phone to gain access to the Internet as "a method I think might work", although I've no idea what I'm talking about

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I will be standing at assorted destinations unknown, with a Tesco mobile phone (package still be be checked) and a PC in my bag to unpack/connect somehow.

I will be wishing to sit and use my PC, possibly using my Tesco mobile phone to gain access to the Internet as "a method I think might work", although I've no idea what I'm talking about

I download lots of podcasts and they use about tens of Mb each so I'd imagine movies would be hundreds each.

I'd worry it would cost a fortune to use a phone to provide wifi to your PC. Presumably this would only be for a few weeks until you get broadband supplied?

PasturesNew

This is the sort of thing that reads like it might work (coverage depending).

If I understand it right I could buy this (£29) and plonk it in the room and connect my PC to it ... and have unlimited broadband for £27/month for a year. Other plans available.
http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Devices/Huawei/E5573bs-322_4G_Mobile_Wi-Fi?memory=0&colour=White

It's just the issue of coverage, which you never know until you sit down and try to connect.

But "something like that" exists ... for starters. And, at the right price.

And, if it worked, I'd not need a BT/landline going forward either.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

When I move, the phone/broadband with BT will cease. I wanted to know how much data I'd used via broadband, so I could choose the correct package for a mobile phone, and/or choose to either cut back or choose a different package.

It turns out I've been using about 150GB/month on my PC/broadband.

Actual mobile phone data is negligible with me, I don't use it.

I'm confused how your kids stream videos and use just 4MB when I've just been told my bits and bobs of Facebook/MSE + a bit of BBC iPlayer amounts to so much.

I will be losing: BT landline/broadband.
I will be standing at assorted destinations unknown, with a Tesco mobile phone (package still be be checked) and a PC in my bag to unpack/connect somehow.

I will be wishing to sit and use my PC, possibly using my Tesco mobile phone to gain access to the Internet as "a method I think might work", although I've no idea what I'm talking about

So I got everything you were asking the wrong way round.

You can create a hotspot on your phone to use your PC, though check your mobile phone provider allows it. Whether 4G (possibly 3G in your area) would be fast enough. Though if it is slow, you will do less.

I think the kids are only streaming over data when they are out and about, at their homes they will be on wifi. They may even be downloading on wifi and watching on the move. shrug emoji.

There is a techie board on MSE. Peeps on there can probably direct you straight to the bit of kit you need.

michaels

There was mention of a deal at 18.95 pm for unlimited mifi - I will try and find it

Smarty sim - apparently there is a £10 referral too.

You don't need a box, you can just use your phone as a hotspot.

PasturesNew

Flitting around randomly on MSE, I read this:

"Three allow tethering of the full amount of data you have in your plan and if you have an unlimited plan they have a fair use policy of 1000Gb"

Now, as I naively read that, my brain would say that means: If I get a three telephone, then I can potentially use that phone as a hotspot (somehow) and then connect my PC to the three phone to get Internet on my PC (I have a wifi stick for the PC).

At least, that's how I read it.

Three have an unlimited package...

So, it might be that the quickest/easiest way (apart from trying to learn about tethering and get that right) would be to:

1/ Buy a Three mobile.
2/ Transfer my existing mobile number to the Three service (the number that I'm currently changing from UW to Mr T today).
3/ Put the new Three phone down on the table (unless it rings) .... then get my PC out and connect to the Three mobile on the table - and sit here typing on my keyboard.

What would be the benefit of doing it that way?
One mobile-phone, no mifi router required.
One bill (Three mobile-phone) -v- Two bills (a Mr T mobile-phone & a mifi contract/bill).

GDB2222

My experience is a 2nd hand fridge, however pristine, is worth very little! YMMV. Selling a fridge is not quite as difficult as selling a used bed, though.

OTOH storing a F/F is a bit difficult. You really need to prop the door open. Otherwise, it's very difficult to avoid mould growth. The slightest film of food left on the surface, however clean it looks, will allow mould to grow. A year of sitting with the door closed, and you may wish you had thrown it away in the first place.

Then, when you finally find the house you are after (or get worn down and compromise), it will come with a fridge, or your old one won't fit.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

OTOH storing a F/F is a bit difficult. You really need to prop the door open. Otherwise, it's very difficult to avoid mould growth. The slightest film of food left on the surface, however clean it looks, will allow mould to grow. A year of sitting with the door closed, and you may wish you had thrown it away in the first place.

Then, when you finally find the house you are after (or get worn down and compromise), it will come with a fridge, or your old one won't fit.

I figured that any time you move an item it has the potential to become damaged (and therefore annoying every time you see it).... and to move a F/F into storage, then out of storage, would involve two moves, with different man/van services who might be of the "slightly less than thoroughly careful" type, -v- paying for a professional house moving outfit (such as Pickfords) to pick stuff up from here and deliver it into a new house in 2-3 hours' time.

I just figure a F/F sitting in storage (with the door propped open) is simply likely to end in some form of disappointment.

I do like "a fresh start" where it's not sensible to continue owning things, without madly binning too much, or clinging onto things too long.

On balance.... I think getting rid of the F/F brings more benefits than keeping it would do when I take a long-term view of it. Even at its most basic level, not moving a F/F makes the whole moving process less fraught as everything else is just "small furniture and stackable boxes + a bike" It's not as if I invested my lifetime savings in a state of the art LED lit American style monster fridge/freezer that talks to the Internet.... it cost me £210 (I just checked) and I've had it 5 years.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

Flitting around randomly on MSE, I read this:

"Three allow tethering of the full amount of data you have in your plan and if you have an unlimited plan they have a fair use policy of 1000Gb"

Now, as I naively read that, my brain would say that means: If I get a three telephone, then I can potentially use that phone as a hotspot (somehow) and then connect my PC to the three phone to get Internet on my PC (I have a wifi stick for the PC).

At least, that's how I read it.

Three have an unlimited package...

So, it might be that the quickest/easiest way (apart from trying to learn about tethering and get that right) would be to:

1/ Buy a Three mobile.
2/ Transfer my existing mobile number to the Three service (the number that I'm currently changing from UW to Mr T today).
3/ Put the new Three phone down on the table (unless it rings) .... then get my PC out and connect to the Three mobile on the table - and sit here typing on my keyboard.

What would be the benefit of doing it that way?
One mobile-phone, no mifi router required.
One bill (Three mobile-phone) -v- Two bills (a Mr T mobile-phone & a mifi contract/bill).

I regularly use my phone as a hotspot via tethering, we've just come back from holiday and that was all I used...it's also very handy when the internet goes down at home.

It is very easy to do, secure (as long as you set it up right) and can handle more than one device being tethered (not tethered as in cables attached to it) and at times is faster than my supposedly superfast broadband!

GDB2222

You may find it easier to give to charity than sell. Round here, British Heart Foundation are the ones for secondhand furniture and the like.