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

gt568

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just had a thought about this..... I need clarification.

I have a mobile handset I own.
In it is the SIM it came with, but I changed the number of that yesterday.
My connection is through Mr T.

If I chose Smarty/Three, what'd I have to do?

If I use my existing handset, would I need to "buy a new SIM then get my existing number moved to their service? Or just "get my existing number moved to their service?"

I don't really understand SIM cards at all.



If I'd thought of all this earlier and knew it was possible (3-4-5 years ago there were fewer options to do this tethering/mifi stuff), then I'd have done the number swap to the new provider and cut Mr T straight out of it all.... but what's done's done.

My plan is: On the day of exchange get all this started/sorted so I can sit with my PC and have it set up beside me while I faff about with it all.... so then, to move, I just put it all in a box to come with me, already working and ready to go. It'd be daft to leave here, then try to buy/set it up!

If you go with 3 (or anyone else) you would need to get a Sim from themfor the contact/data you want.


Then you need to make sure your current handset is unlocked so it will work with 3.


Then you port the number from T to 3.

PasturesNew

gt568 wrote: »

Then you need to make sure your current handset is unlocked so it will work with 3.


Then you port the number from T to 3.

OK, I'll have to ask ... how do you "make sure" of that then?

I have owned one mobile phone to date, that I've kept/used as I had it and it wasn't difficult - but I didn't use it except for emergencies, so it got used for 4 calls/year and received about a dozen texts/year. I bought that phone in about 2005 or so ...

I have owned a 2nd mobile phone.... that I only ever used as a camera as it was a smartphone and I found it unusable as the screen's too tiny to see what you're doing and most of the time, if out/about and I wondered where I was, I didn't have a signal in any case.. so it was just used to take photos.

So I know nothing of what locking/unlocking is, means, or anything.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just nailed another niggling loose end.

My old PC, that had a super noisy fan and a tiny HD was giving up the ghost last year. It had reached its end of life without investing more into a bit of a beast of a box.

GDB put me onto a tiny PC to replace it, which I bought for about £100. It was silent (optical drive) and fast (could finally watch TV online with the minimum of buffering).

I transferred what I thought was all the data from the old PC, but always was unsure .... there might be something I want to check on that old PC. Probably not... but you never know. So I didn't wipe/bin it. At the same time, the bios battery had started to fail; each time I turned the PC off and went out, then on again when I returned, it'd want me to type the date in....

Getting a new bios battery in case I want to access it and not have to faff about with doubts about it starting and dates etc was on the back burner.

Well, I've finally got round to having a new one fitted, just in case.... carried it to a local PC place (well, shopping trolley as it's not as light as it could be!)... £1 Also, inside the case were enough dust bunnies to turn into a quilt! He hoovered it out.

Just unplug the hard drive and plug it into the new pc and throw the old one away.

gt568

PasturesNew wrote: »

OK, I'll have to ask ... how do you "make sure" of that then?

I have owned one mobile phone to date, that I've kept/used as I had it and it wasn't difficult - but I didn't use it except for emergencies, so it got used for 4 calls/year and received about a dozen texts/year. I bought that phone in about 2005 or so ...

I have owned a 2nd mobile phone.... that I only ever used as a camera as it was a smartphone and I found it unusable as the screen's too tiny to see what you're doing and most of the time, if out/about and I wondered where I was, I didn't have a signal in any case.. so it was just used to take photos.

So I know nothing of what locking/unlocking is, means, or anything.

ring tesco and ask them. If it is locked, and i suspect it will be, ask them to unlock it. Then you can bung any sim you want into it.

gt568

Also, remember that your internet will only be as good as the 4g signal in your are for that provider.

PasturesNew

gt568 wrote: »

Also, remember that your internet will only be as good as the 4g signal in your are for that provider.

I'm not bothered about 4G, unless it's critical for the mifi to work.
There is some, but I don't know where I'm going + will probably have 3-4 addresses in the coming year....

I figure so long as I get a signal of some sort it'll be fine.

My current landline/BT broadband speed is 2MB download (not a typo), so it'd be hard to get worse than that.

I've just done an online speed test - here are the results. 1.49MB
https://www.speedcheckerapi.com/Images/324582003.jpg

gt568

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm not bothered about 4G, unless it's critical for the mifi to work.
There is some, but I don't know where I'm going + will probably have 3-4 addresses in the coming year....

I figure so long as I get a signal of some sort it'll be fine.

My current landline/BT broadband speed is 2MB download (not a typo), so it'd be hard to get worse than that.

I've just done an online speed test - here are the results. 1.49MB
https://www.speedcheckerapi.com/Images/324582003.jpg

You'd better be bothered, you won't be browsing the internet without it.

PasturesNew

gt568 wrote: »

You'd better be bothered, you won't be browsing the internet without it.

OK, so 4G is compulsory for mifi is it?

Trouble is, you never know if you'll get a signal/what sort, until you're actually standing in a spot with all the kit.

It's never been something you can look up reliably at all.

4G isn't everywhere, mifi's been about for awhile, I'm surprised 4G is compulsory for it to work.

michaels

Nope - you can browse/tether/hotspot on 3G, should get at least 3-6mbps so faster than your current adsl

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Nope - you can browse/tether/hotspot on 3G, should get at least 3-6mbps so faster than your current adsl

Whew

Job's still a good 'un then.