Unlimited Data SIMs - are they really unlimited?

[megaphone]

OldGermanHeaps said:

megaphone said:

As above, you don't get a public IP address with 4G BB, this means any CCTV or Dynamic DNS remote viewing etc won't work.

It has made me rethink my next move as I was determined to try 4G as an ISP option. I run dynamic DNS services and have a couple of web servers and CCTV which need to work.

3 gives you a proper nattable public IP

Thanks, am looking at this, getting conflicting info, do you have any more detail?

[OldGermanHeaps]

if you are using a 3 supplied router you can use dyndns and port forwarding out the box. if you are using a 3rd party router you need to change the apn to 3internet

[dave_s13]

Mammasaid said:

Should be able to get fixed line BB for ~£20/month for superfast unlimited.

I'm with Vodafone for that price for but there are others.

Same here. I'm with Plusnet at £20/month for the 40mb fttc service.

[theboss]

ash73 said:

You can get a public ip with this... costs £10pm.

https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/l2tp-service/

A potentially unadvertised benefit of this, is that by passing your traffic using a tunnelling protocol, you’ll most likely bypass any shaping policies applied to HTTP and streaming traffic.

[AC43]

RammyMP said:

As mentioned they come with fair use policy. I had an unlimited sim with Three, the trouble was that the data speed is so slow with them that I never could use that much!

+1.

Whoop whoop! Unlimited!!

....but dogst slow.

Oh. That's why it's cheap.....

[Castrol for a knave]

We are rural, and using a microwave link we get 7mb typical.

I have switched it to Vodaphone unlimited sim - £20 a month. I have D Link router and run the house on it.

I get 25mb up and 35mb down, can be faster. I sometimes see it slow to 7mb around 8.30am but suspect it is the network hitting peak.

So long as I can get Harry's Garage and Project Binky I am happy...

[rfsteel]

OldGermanHeaps said:

if you are using a 3 supplied router you can use dyndns and port forwarding out the box. if you are using a 3rd party router you need to change the apn to 3internet

Be warned, using 3internet as the apn changes the connection to 3G only, not 4G

https://www.solwise.co.uk/downloads/files/connecti...

[Tyre Smoke]

EE told me their fair use policy is anything over 1Tb a month and it gets flagged up to them.

Our house isn't hitting that, even with a 16yo glued to his xbox and running Sky Q and a mini box.

[PushedDover]

Regarding the dynamic IP .... I am thinking of a CCTV type similar to the Blink jobby Amazon push.
I have a EE 4G Home router (wifi disabled) that is hard wired to the TP Link M5 Deco mesh set up.

Will this work with a CCTV system ? and is it a fixable option do you think ?

[OldGermanHeaps]

rfsteel said:

Be warned, using 3internet as the apn changes the connection to 3G only, not 4G

https://www.solwise.co.uk/downloads/files/connecti...

I think that is outdated, I have numerous 3 huawei homefis in various pieces of mobile fairground equipment and catering units and they are all connecting to 4g via 3internet and port forwarding is working reliably.

[OldGermanHeaps]

I just tried changing my phone apn to 3internet from three.co.uk, and it changed from a cgnat ip address to a proper public facing ip, I was still connected to 4g and my ping time dropped by 30ms.

[rfsteel]

OldGermanHeaps said:

I just tried changing my phone apn to 3internet from three.co.uk, and it changed from a cgnat ip address to a proper public facing ip, I was still connected to 4g and my ping time dropped by 30ms.

Just tried again, and this time got a 4G connection using 3internet.