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It says slower. Not non existent. You can let it buffer for 20 minutes and nothing will happen.
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Three has always stated the following on their website:
In that respect, it's not like at home at all. What you have is effectively a walled garden, with people knowing a particular VPN set up able to bypass it - but given the amount of people in the last few days that now know about it, I suspect won't take too long to be blocked too. After all, there are people from Three on this forum so any one of them could have innocently asked by PM for the details! |
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I would have thought any decent encrypted VPN would work? I pay for one i use to access football and different regions of netflix, are you saying this will be useless? and if so any chance of a PM for the one that works
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I would also like the VPN, if possible
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Has anyone tried using their own VPN?
I have a synology NAS with an IPSec VPN setup which works well here in the UK but I've not tried it abroad yet. Wondering if anyone has set a windows based VPN up at home or has a similar set up to myself? |
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Has anyone tried using their own VPN?
I have a synology NAS with an IPSec VPN setup which works well here in the UK but I've not tried it abroad yet. Wondering if anyone has set a windows based VPN up at home or has a similar set up to myself? It's like the great firewall of China
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Clearly it's very effective and means that most people will never consume that much data on holiday.
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Clearly it's very effective and means that most people will never consume that much data on holiday.
I've been abroad 5 times. |
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We're probably rather the exception to the rule though.
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So far I've used more than 100GB abroad in the past 18 months.
I've been abroad 5 times. |
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Roaming or on local sims?
Got back from France on the weekend and had clocked up 20GB in about 5 days. (I do test how much I can use so this isn't a typical usage pattern for me). Here is my usage from Hong Kong last year- http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/r...psf2acbcd6.jpg |
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Bloody hell. That's more than I use in a month generally!
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I'm not one for critisising people but I do think 100gb abroad is pushing it too far.
And such super-high-usage users are the reason Three and others limit the speed so much when abroad.. otherwise they would use 100gb in 10 days. |
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Roaming with feel at home.
Got back from France on the weekend and had clocked up 20GB in about 5 days. (I do test how much I can use so this isn't a typical usage pattern for me). Here is my usage from Hong Kong last year- http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/r...psf2acbcd6.jpg I used 1GB in 8 days in Majorca and that was only because the hotel wanted to charge 10 euro per device for WiFi. |
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Three isn't limiting the speed. It's blocking services outright.
Three's own T&Cs places a 'limit' of 25GB in a month, and also further limits on usage over a 12 month period (to stop people abroad buying a UK SIM to get unlimited data in their own country, where other such options might not exist). However, while you can get your email, Tweet, use Facebook pretty much normally, and download apps at 2G-style speeds, you can't use video streaming. I found I couldn't even watch a 6-second Vine clip. |
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As I said I test feel at home extensively when abroad. Not a reflection on my actual data usage.
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Out of interest has anyone tried to tether using an iPhone? Just interested to know how they block it
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It's very easy to block tethering on an iPhone or many new Android 5 devices.
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Yes I have tried a few VPN's myself but to no success also tried different ports both UDP & TCP all of which are blocked.
It's like the great firewall of China ![]()
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Can you pm me the name of the VPN as well plz mate. Off to Spain soon
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It's very easy to block tethering on an iPhone or many new Android 5 devices.
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They use detection that IME is very, very quick - but my point was that, for most people now with a new phone it's even easier. Previously Android had no real way to block tethering.
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They use detection that IME is very, very quick - but my point was that, for most people now with a new phone it's even easier. Previously Android had no real way to block tethering.
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I've found that in the UK, if I have 'dun' in the normal APN, and take 'dun' out of the 3Hotspot one, all traffic goes through normal APN, and I'm not detected. I don't abuse this anyway.
However abroad, that doesn't work entirely. It works when tethering to other phones, or android tablets, but not iPads or PCs anymore. So it appears three use a different detection method abroad, where it looks at the traffic coming from the device, where it doesn't in the UK. |
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I've found that in the UK, if I have 'dun' in the normal APN, and take 'dun' out of the 3Hotspot one, all traffic goes through normal APN, and I'm not detected. I don't abuse this anyway.
However abroad, that doesn't work entirely. It works when tethering to other phones, or android tablets, but not iPads or PCs anymore. So it appears three use a different detection method abroad, where it looks at the traffic coming from the device, where it doesn't in the UK. |
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