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Old 02-07-2015, 22:23
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I am currently in Italy staying in Lake Garda and am connected to both WIND and 3 Italy and data speeds are great, with the former being the faster of the 2. The coverage is impressive as well had constant HSPA+, better than some places in the UK. Has anyone else had good experiences in any of Threes other Feel At Home destinations?
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Old 02-07-2015, 23:07
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I'm going to Italy in 3 days, you say WIND is better? I might manually choose it.

I live near the Irish border, I've roamed to 3 IRL and gotten 7Mbps from my house, which is pretty far away from the actual mast I must be connecting to - hence, the speed must be pretty good.
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Old 02-07-2015, 23:09
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Friend of mine went to Italy, said WIND was the better option being much faster, he even got signal in the rural areas which are around the Bay of Naples (I've no idea how rural that actually is but it sounds rural) , although he got annoyed by the throttling of streaming.

Personally I've used it in Vienna, where it was good, not as good as the network back home but still very good, noticed at the time traffic seemed to be routed back through London, although this may have been my imagination.
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Old 02-07-2015, 23:29
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Friend of mine went to Italy, said WIND was the better option being much faster, he even got signal in the rural areas which are around the Bay of Naples (I've no idea how rural that actually is but it sounds rural) , although he got annoyed by the throttling of streaming.

Personally I've used it in Vienna, where it was good, not as good as the network back home but still very good, noticed at the time traffic seemed to be routed back through London, although this may have been my imagination.
Traffic is routed back through the UK as your still assigned UK IP Address, as for streaming being throttled to useless there is a VPN service for that but I won't post here, PM me if you want to know.
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Old 02-07-2015, 23:41
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Used it in the USA last year, my galaxy S4 stuck to At&t, would not connect T mobile.3g signal in some remote stretches of road which was good, rural spiders were often around 1-2 mbps, cities up to around 8-10mbps but ping was always high around 600 which sometimes made things feel at little slow, but a great bonus to have when you're stuck in traffic in LA and can use Google maps to help you out. In contrast Spain this year was a bit of a let down on the Costa blanca in and around Altea, and down south of Alicante, seemed to have a choice of 3 networks yogio (or something like that), moviestar and orange, was glued to yogio all the time despite poor coverage, often on 2g edge, in brief moments when I was on the other 2 I found moviestar had little or no data throughput while orange had brilliant speed often over 10mbps but my phone twos leap off it 1st chance it got back to yogio 2g edge. Even forcing the network wouldn't keep it there for long..
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Old 03-07-2015, 06:10
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Tricky with speeds, I am roaming right now in New York and get speeds of about 4-5Mbps.

However if i access the Play Store/App Store to download an app or go onto PocketCasts to download an audio show it takes FOREVER!

With a speed of say 4Mbps you should see the download bar go something like

0Mb, 0.9Mb, 1.7Mb, 2.9Mb, 4.3Mb, 6.5Mb, 8.1Mb, 10.2Mb etc.....

However in reality I am seeing the progress bar like

2kb, 10kb, 15kb, 20kb, 30kb, 35kb, 50kb etc......

Gave up downloading anything

It is good for social media so Facebook and Twitter plus emails, anything else it can be rather annoying.

To compare I also have an EE SIM on an older plan so got 1GB for £25. 4G roaming here too and was getting 17Mbps down and 15Mbps up!
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Old 03-07-2015, 08:32
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In France, even in the rural parts on Bouygues H+ I get around 7/8Mbps. However, VPN and media traffic is harshly throttled even to the point where trying to stream even a low res stream is pointless.

Videos on Facebook for example will load straight away in HD, but YouTube can't even play 144p.
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Old 03-07-2015, 08:35
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That mirrored my experience exactly dangetti and connor, it's a great tool to have in the USA when you consider traditional roaming costs but it is only suitable for email,social media and using Google maps, listening to radio online or streaming music wasn't that successful, but if away from WiFi I'd download a couple of albums to listen on the move from Google play in the background while charging in the car. Took an age but it would get there.
My summary of feel at home was, great system for when outside Europe but when in Europe a bit too restrictive and would rather pay a little bit to be able to do more of the phone.
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Old 03-07-2015, 09:14
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In France, even in the rural parts on Bouygues H+ I get around 7/8Mbps. However, VPN and media traffic is harshly throttled even to the point where trying to stream even a low res stream is pointless.

Videos on Facebook for example will load straight away in HD, but YouTube can't even play 144p.

I'm in France right now and this is my experience. Everything works great apart from streaming. Downloading media files is fine. Already downloaded about 4GB's worth of movies/tv shows since i've been here.
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Old 03-07-2015, 09:23
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Tricky with speeds, I am roaming right now in New York and get speeds of about 4-5Mbps.

However if i access the Play Store/App Store to download an app or go onto PocketCasts to download an audio show it takes FOREVER!
I had this issue too but found things sped up when using a VPN. Although VPNs are supposedly throttled too, they still seemed to speed things up (and made streaming media possible). I often found I needed to use one to make Google maps useable too!

I've since switched to Vodafone and although you have to pay for Euro/World Traveller, they don't throttle your data, so in many ways I prefer it to Feel At Home despite the added cost.
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Old 03-07-2015, 09:27
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I seem to recall from a long time ago that if you forced your phone onto EE 4g roaming on T-Mobile USA it didn't charge you which was really weird, this was when they were just setting the 4g roaming up, must have been a billing systems error.

Downloading seemed fine in Vienna from my experience, the throttling seems just to be targeted at the common websites, not the 1gb zip file for my bricked Android tablet that I was downloading.
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Old 03-07-2015, 11:01
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I'm going to lake Garda & was looking at 3 for data while I'm away would I still need to consider a VPN for music & video streaming ?
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Old 03-07-2015, 11:04
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We all know we can bypass the VPN throttling if we know which VPN to use
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Old 03-07-2015, 11:05
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I'm going to lake Garda & was looking at 3 for data while I'm away would I still need to consider a VPN for music & video streaming ?
Yes a specific VPN is a must if you want to stream *anything*
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Old 03-07-2015, 11:41
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I couldn't get more than a megabit in Ireland on any of their networks.

The only type it was reasonably fast (8Mb was my maximum) was in the airport strangely.
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Old 03-07-2015, 12:36
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Yes a specific VPN is a must if you want to stream *anything*
Can someone pm me the vpn?

I'm in france right now and this may come in useful.

Cheers.
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Old 03-07-2015, 12:41
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Can someone pm me the vpn?

I'm in france right now and this may come in useful.

Cheers.
Same here, not in France right now but going shortly and had a bad experience last year.
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Old 03-07-2015, 12:49
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Same here, not in France right now but going shortly and had a bad experience last year.
I'm having a good experience to be honest. 3G everywhere, good speeds for browsing and downloading. However streaming doesn't work well unless on hotel wifi.
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Old 03-07-2015, 13:48
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Can someone pm me the vpn?

I'm in france right now and this may come in useful.

Cheers.
PM'd the VPN
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Old 03-07-2015, 13:49
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I am in Marseilles at the moment, speeds are around 13Mbps and YouTube is working fine
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Old 03-07-2015, 13:52
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I am in Marseilles at the moment, speeds are around 13Mbps and YouTube is working fine
With or without the VPN?
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Old 03-07-2015, 14:04
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I am in Marseilles at the moment, speeds are around 13Mbps and YouTube is working fine
I'm not too far from you actually and seeing similar speeds. Really impressed.

http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/r...sbqezlxtn.jpeg

Thanks for the pm btw rasseru. Anyway. I'm going for a swim haha.
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Old 03-07-2015, 14:18
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With or without the VPN?
Without the VPN
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Old 03-07-2015, 14:20
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For those in France at the moment, how are speeds across the three roaming partners? i.e. is there a difference in observed experience of Bouygues, Orange and Free?
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Old 03-07-2015, 14:27
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If anyone can point me towards one id be greatful
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