Have you any Mobile broad band any experiences ?

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I'm hoping to move house in the near future and this will involve changing my broadband provider. I'm wondering if it would be worth using an unlimited mobile broadband package. Has anyone any experience with this ?

Thanks all
 
I live in a static caravan and have used my Three phone as a hotspot for my pc, laptop and Samsung tablet for the last 5 years. It is dependant on how good your mobile signal is though,(mine is very good at home.) It also depends on what you do (I don't stream stuff for example.)

I am on a £23pm contract and get 30GB data unlimited minutes plus unlimited voice minutes and texts. :)
 
Yup. I have a business unit where the only landline-broadband option is still just 2Mbps. :( So I dumped that and now use 4G mobile: 02 at 100GB/month for £20.

Works perfectly (so far) with Mac/PC/iOS. As it's quite a way outside of town, there's never too many people sharing the cell tower, so data rates don't suffer at busy times.
 
Thanks everyone, I have used my phone in the past (1pmobile) when away in my caravan and on a few occasions when my main internet connection has failed. It has worked well but is a little costly. I have been looking at doing it this way 4g broadband with unlimited data plans with a dedicated router/4g broad band device rather than my phone. Thanks for the input.

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Our landline connection is 4mb down 0.02mb up

Our Three 4g mobile connection with external antenna is 25mb down 7mb up. And it’s cheaper per month than the landline one.

Ive only kept the landline because my wife needs the phoneline for work, otherwise we’d be 4g only.

I initially bought the 4g as an emergency backup because our plusnet connection went down for a month at the start of the lockdown and we were screwed without internet. However it soon became apparent, it’s far superior.
 
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The bonus is that once you've got 4G mobile broadband, all sorts of other photography-related stuff becomes easier when you are out and about. Sunrise/sunset and cloud/weather apps, for starters. I will also look out for a DOF app.

FWIW, I've rarely approached the 100GB/month limit I have on O2. But at the moment, I'm not uploading to the cloud - may look into that.
 
Yes - I've used Three 4G as my only broadband for over a year. I have an unlimited package with them which is about 40 quid a month. It was good at first then became increasingy slow to stream Iplayer (which seems to use the lowest buffering of any service - Netflix was OK)

I made a dramatic improvement to it by buying a different modem from the one they supply (which is a Huawei / Alexa thing). I got a TP-LInk for about £130 off of Amazon.

It can be patchy at some times of day and long Zoom sessions seem to lag a little after an hour or two but most of the time that I check it I'll see >10MB/s which is plenty for both of us int he house to video conference. Downloading huge files can take a while but it doesn't seem to throttle over night.

IMO hard wire is usually cheaper but 4G isn't too bad (though upgrade the modem).
 
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