Using SIM card for broadband

stinky_daddy

All

I may well have missed it when searching, however, I am looking (potentially) to stream a live broadcast (approx 3 / 3.5hrs) in October onto my laptop (it is usually on one of the terrestial channels as it is the second of the NFL games in GB - am going to the first as my team is playing - up the ATL).

Where I work on a Sunday, there is no broadband accessible, so, thought about  creating a mobile hotspot / tethering via my phone for this one-off occasion.

I am currently use Giffgaff as a mobile provider and looking at it's various offerings, I am drawn to the £20 goodybag (either the golden goodybag or the normal £20 offering (I have an (unlocked) Samsung S20 FE phone)), however, I believe that you can only use / make use of an initial 80GB of data for streaming - so am somewhat confused?

My queries are therefore:
What (goody) bag should I get?
Are there any issues I should bear in mind?
Would the 80 or 100GB of data be enough to stream for that long?

TIA

s_d

flaneurs_lobster

Not an answer to your query but Giffgaff have a very active forum of users who basically form their first level of support (it's their big USP). Cut 'n' paste your post above onto there and see what happens. Generally a response takes a few minutes.

https://community.giffgaff.com/t/help-and-support 

merchcon55

stinky_daddy said:

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Where I work on a Sunday, there is no broadband accessible, so, thought about  creating a mobile hotspot / tethering via my phone for this one-off occasion.

FYI the game is on  a Tuesday early morning 01:15 (it's the weekly Monday night game in USA).

Detroit Lions at Green Bay Packers

8:15 pm  Monday, September 20th:

stinky_daddy

merchcon55 said:

stinky_daddy said:

All



Where I work on a Sunday, there is no broadband accessible, so, thought about  creating a mobile hotspot / tethering via my phone for this one-off occasion.

FYI the game is on  a Tuesday early morning 01:15 (it's the weekly Monday night game in USA).

Detroit Lions at Green Bay Packers

8:15 pm  Monday, September 20th:

No

I am referring to the JAGS game (when they will be playing over in the UK on the 17th October) and not the Monday game, I think from memory, it was shown live on BBC2 on previous years (whenever, games were in the UK).

Thanks

s_d

Shedman

If you've got a good Vodafone service where you work you could try Lebara unlimited Sim via Uswitch.  Lebara allow tethering as far as I know.  Its a monthly contract and via Uswitch 1st month is half price so would be £12.50 instead of £25.  Then just set autorenew to Off and let it stop at the end of the 1st month. 

It is also 5g if your phone is 5g capable and you're in a Vodafone 5g area of course

Carrot007

stinky_daddy said:

Would the 80 or 100GB of data be enough to stream for that long?

See https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/data-netflix-youtube-spotify-how-much-streaming-video-music-mobile-internet-allowance-388089 :

Low – 0.3 GB per hour per device
Medium – SD: 0.7 GB per hour per device
High – Best video quality, up to 3 GB per hour per device for HD, and 7 GB per hour per device for Ultra HD

Yes netflix related, so maybe double it for a bad live stream. So Your 80GB is very much overkill depending on the quality you wanted to stream at. And obviously you may not be in a place where UHD streams are possible over mobile even if wherever you want to stream from provides it.

jnm21

Check out iPlayer to see what bandwidth it needs - also do a speed test at work... I would want a constant 12Mbps to try streaming HD.  You can multiply it up.  12 x 60 x 60 x 3.5 / 8 / 1024 = roughly 18.5GB  Based on 3.5 hours, you need approx 1.5 times the required Mbps in GB.  So if iPlayer says 7 Mbps that is roughly 10.5GB, etc.

They say HD is 5Mbps so allow 8GB.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/questions/getting-started-with-bbc-iplayer/internet-speed

Technically your work will need a TV licence (regardless of how it is streamed).