Experiences of using mobile hotspot tethering instead of broadband?

Elisheba

Can I ask, if anyone reads this who uses their mobile as a hotspot for their internet - how do you get on with it?

My mobile contract is ending next month (at last) and I see on this website there is an £18 unlimited data contract ideal for tethering, which means I could cancel my broadband. 

I quite like the sounds of this, but as I do need to be able to work from reliable Wifi for work I just wondered what people's experiences of it were? It could save me about £350 a year on what I'm paying now on my broadband and mobile (which admittedly is too high, and any good SIM only contract will save me money).

Thanks,
E

Neil_Jones

Depends on the quality of your mobile signal.  If you have a crap signal its a pointless endeavour.

If you need reliable wifi and a reliable connection your landline is the best way to go at this time.

matelodave

It depends what sort of service you have where you live. I've used  both tethering and a MiFi unit in my location but they aren't sufficiently reliable to do away with a fixed solution.
Where I live I can get to 8mbit/s on a good day but less than 2 on a bad one - it's still better than ADSL which struggles at 1.8mbit/s.. So we have a FTTP service that gives me 76mbit's.

We've just been away in our caravan and used the MiFi unit and had a good reliable 24Mbit/s. Lats year we were in a place where nothing worked at all - not even the phone.

You need to try it out at the times that you hope to use it because mobile networks like any other can get congested at certain time of the day and wireless signals are less reliable than a wired connection

tehone

I've done both tethering and a mifi device, and they worked fine, if I were to do this longer term, then I would buy a 4G router for the extra flexibility (about £60 on amazon)