Using Mobile Tether For Broadband

Vagabond3

Hi All,

I left Virgin recently after becoming fed up with their rising prices and elusive customer service.

I'm now looking at broadband options and am tempted by the possibility of using my mobile as a tether/personal hotspot via this 3 deal.

https://3g.co.uk/unlimited-data-plans

It's £20 a month and would give me all the mobile minutes and texts I need too.

What are the drawbacks of this sort of deal? Presumably the download speeds will be a lot slower than Virgin.

Anything else to take into account?

Thanks.

mgfvvc

Vagabond3 wrote: »

Hi All,
Anything else to take into account?

Do you have anything that needs a wired connection?

Where are you going to place the hotspot? How confident are you that the signal will reach everywhere in your property?

tomatoes1234

Depends on your area I get around 70mb and 80mb peak time I get is 30mb only paying £11 a month unlimited data and hotspot in my TPlink 4g 1200ac router

christaitfife

Unlimited doesn't always mean unlimited! It would be worth calling and getting full details about what they are offering. Some company's offer a certain amount of data at a certain speed (eg 4g), and then the rest at a lower speed (such as 3g). Some throttle depending on network demand. I'm not saying that this is the case here, but it would be worth checking.

Mister_G

Indeed

See post #9 here

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/75094782#Comment_75094782

Gloomendoom

tomatoes1234 wrote: »

Depends on your area I get around 70mb and 80mb peak time I get is 30mb only paying £11 a month unlimited data and hotspot in my TPlink 4g 1200ac router

Who is that with?

tomatoes1234

Three uk usage is 400gb each month done this for over 14 months not even one word they do have 1000gb Fup in place.