Using 3 mobile a home broadband?
Discussion
We have huge issue with out broadband reliability, and BT & myself are struggling to get to the bottom of it.
Looking at 3 mobile, they seem to offer two options, a £20/12 month contract or £32m/1 month rolling contract.
Both seem to have an unlimited data plan, with a fair use policy if 1000GB.
This seems too good to be true, as that's cheaper then our standard BT Broadband, and with our excellent 4g service we would also see a doubling of speeds.
I play a lot of games (ping?) and we do a lot of streaming & downloading.
I don't see what the catch is? It sounds too good to be true....
Has anyone looked into this before?
Looking at 3 mobile, they seem to offer two options, a £20/12 month contract or £32m/1 month rolling contract.
Both seem to have an unlimited data plan, with a fair use policy if 1000GB.
This seems too good to be true, as that's cheaper then our standard BT Broadband, and with our excellent 4g service we would also see a doubling of speeds.
I play a lot of games (ping?) and we do a lot of streaming & downloading.
I don't see what the catch is? It sounds too good to be true....
Has anyone looked into this before?
Edited by Andeh1 on Saturday 16th February 14:52
Looks like a new tariff. If it's still running when my Broadband ADSL contract finishes, I'll switch.
I've been on Three MBB, also with an earlier Huawei router, have zero complaints. This assuming you've got a decent signal.
'Go Binge' includes NetFlix and TV Player but ads will use data from your tariff.
Catches are usually the tariff caps, with charges for extra usage so presumably 1000GB is enough? 24 month contract is a long time if it doesn't work for you.
The routers are OK, they'll run VOIP, wifi printers and all the rest of it, I get 40-60GB/s down on 4G, about 20GB on 3G.
I've been on Three MBB, also with an earlier Huawei router, have zero complaints. This assuming you've got a decent signal.
'Go Binge' includes NetFlix and TV Player but ads will use data from your tariff.
Catches are usually the tariff caps, with charges for extra usage so presumably 1000GB is enough? 24 month contract is a long time if it doesn't work for you.
The routers are OK, they'll run VOIP, wifi printers and all the rest of it, I get 40-60GB/s down on 4G, about 20GB on 3G.
- Current model only supports 2.4 Ghz wifi, as far as I can tell, plus a single ethernet port.
I'd verify with them that you can 'tether' other devices within that bandwidth cap.
In the past, even if you were on an unlimited data tariff (i've done this) . - you could only tether 1 or 2GB a month (forget which).
If they have removed that restriction, it's not a bad package if you have a poor BT/Cable bandwidth.
It's another world to be near a cable cabinet (mine is 10m from house) and get 300Mb+ . First house i've ever lived in with decent broadband performance.
In the past, even if you were on an unlimited data tariff (i've done this) . - you could only tether 1 or 2GB a month (forget which).
If they have removed that restriction, it's not a bad package if you have a poor BT/Cable bandwidth.
It's another world to be near a cable cabinet (mine is 10m from house) and get 300Mb+ . First house i've ever lived in with decent broadband performance.
Think that is similar deal to this
https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/three-unlimited-b...
Not bad if you can cope with 24 months.
https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/three-unlimited-b...
Not bad if you can cope with 24 months.
sly fox said:
I'd verify with them that you can 'tether' other devices within that bandwidth cap.
In the past, even if you were on an unlimited data tariff (i've done this) . - you could only tether 1 or 2GB a month (forget which).
If they have removed that restriction, it's not a bad package if you have a poor BT/Cable bandwidth.
It's another world to be near a cable cabinet (mine is 10m from house) and get 300Mb+ . First house i've ever lived in with decent broadband performance.
Not relevant If he installs it in a mobile router which is what appears to be being suggested In the past, even if you were on an unlimited data tariff (i've done this) . - you could only tether 1 or 2GB a month (forget which).
If they have removed that restriction, it's not a bad package if you have a poor BT/Cable bandwidth.
It's another world to be near a cable cabinet (mine is 10m from house) and get 300Mb+ . First house i've ever lived in with decent broadband performance.
tonyb1968 said:
If you play games then forget mobile broadband, the latency will kill you, throw in some attenuation depending on the weather and also add that more users will reduce your speed, its not a great idea.
If you were streaming video or browsing the web, fine, gaming, nope.
I would agree with that If you were streaming video or browsing the web, fine, gaming, nope.
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