[Textmainiac]

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Originally Posted by culabula

Thanks for this again. In the end, I got a Huawei in-car wifi stick for cheap and the TP Routeur arrived this morning. Took 18 seconds to boot up and start running. I then took the Ethernet cable out of the back of the TalkTalk super router and all my existing networks are exactly as they were with no perceived loss of speed and zero configuration.

Brilliant.

As I've enough SIMs to see me through until March, that'll do for now. 32 down and 20 up.

You're welcome. It's a pity we can't all get good mobile data without the faff of landlines and copper wire strung up to sticks, but maybe one day. As an aside, I just got my old Three Mifi unlocked for 99p on Ebay, so that now has an EE Xmas SIM in it , too,

[david16]

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Originally Posted by Textmainiac

You're welcome. It's a pity we can't all get good mobile data without the faff of landlines and copper wire strung up to sticks, but maybe one day. As an aside, I just got my old Three Mifi unlocked for 99p on Ebay, so that now has an EE Xmas SIM in it , too,

Landline line rental is extortionately expensive, and with the landline wifi you can't get it without having to tie yourself to a 12, 18 or 24 month contract.

But you can't do that with having a good credit report. The same with pay monthly sim only.

The only way about it is PAYG with the highest possible amount of data you can get including AYCE from three.

Lebara international sims cost 1p each at Amazon (£0.00 postage) and give you 100mb free and £1 free credit per sim just by inserting one of these sims into your mobile device. So buying 100 of these costing you £1 in total will give you approaching 10GB of data. Just gives you no more and no less than what you really need at a cheap cost.

[culabula]

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Originally Posted by david16

Landline line rental is extortionately expensive, and with the landline wifi you can't get it without having to tie yourself to a 12, 18 or 24 month contract.

But you can't do that with having a good credit report. The same with pay monthly sim only.

The only way about it is PAYG with the highest possible amount of data you can get including AYCE from three.

Lebara international sims cost 1p each at Amazon (£0.00 postage) and give you 100mb free and £1 free credit per sim just by inserting one of these sims into your mobile device. So buying 100 of these costing you £1 in total will give you approaching 10GB of data. Just gives you no more and no less than what you really need at a cheap cost.

Are you really suggesting swapping SIMs every 100mb ? For the same tenner you can get 200GB with EE.

[cooler]

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Originally Posted by david16

Landline line rental is extortionately expensive, and with the landline wifi you can't get it without having to tie yourself to a 12, 18 or 24 month contract.

But you can't do that with having a good credit report. The same with pay monthly sim only.

The only way about it is PAYG with the highest possible amount of data you can get including AYCE from three.

Lebara international sims cost 1p each at Amazon (£0.00 postage) and give you 100mb free and £1 free credit per sim just by inserting one of these sims into your mobile device. So buying 100 of these costing you £1 in total will give you approaching 10GB of data. Just gives you no more and no less than what you really need at a cheap cost.

Do the Lebara international sims work in dongles or are they used via tethering?

Where does it say you get 100mb free data?

The listing on Amazon here says it includes 1Gb Mobile Internet. It doesn't say what Style Name that is though because it still says that even when the Style Name is select as 'Without Topup'.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lebara-Pay-I.../dp/B00KW96PN0

[Antbox]

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Originally Posted by Redcoat

If I didn't know any better, I'd swear EE are looking to try and "stress test" their network, looking to see if it can cope in general and identify parts of the country with strong data demand. Maybe a focus on larger data packages for phone & mobile BB in 2016 depending on results?

I agree, if EE certainly wanted to get some kind of 'real world' feel for what happens when you give people a ton of data, and they know about it, and will probably rush to make sure they use it all within the allotted 30 days... well, it could well be a worthwhile experiment.

I stuck my 100GB SIM in one of those Huawei 'super hub'-type routers and tried using it in place of my regular broadband for a month. Worked amazingly well, other than every so often hitting a website like archive.org which EE decided was a Naughty Forbidden Website - and then finding that (as is so often the case) the EE web page where you verify that you are a grown up... doesn't work. (They must have learned that trick from Orange..)

That aside, though, it proves the point - 4G can be a very viable substitute for hard broadband, even for reasonably heavy users.

[culabula]

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Originally Posted by Antbox

I agree, if EE certainly wanted to get some kind of 'real world' feel for what happens when you give people a ton of data, and they know about it, and will probably rush to make sure they use it all within the allotted 30 days... well, it could well be a worthwhile experiment.

I stuck my 100GB SIM in one of those Huawei 'super hub'-type routers and tried using it in place of my regular broadband for a month. Worked amazingly well, other than every so often hitting a website like archive.org which EE decided was a Naughty Forbidden Website - and then finding that (as is so often the case) the EE web page where you verify that you are a grown up... doesn't work. (They must have learned that trick from Orange..)

That aside, though, it proves the point - 4G can be a very viable substitute for hard broadband, even for reasonably heavy users.

Do you have a link for one of these super routers?

[Antbox]

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Originally Posted by culabula

Do you have a link for one of these super routers?

I got one of these (mainly because I was interested in trying it with an external aerial, which this supports) but you might want to have a look around, you may find it, or something like it, a bit cheaper:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Huawei-B593s...dp/B00Y2EE3IK/

[david16]

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Originally Posted by culabula

Are you really suggesting swapping SIMs every 100mb ? For the same tenner you can get 200GB with EE.

But the EE 200GB sim over 2 months is not a year round thing though.

It was just a suggestion re: the Lebara international sim anyway. And nowhere near everybody with one of these EE sim cards will be consuming the whole of the 100GB of data in both months of the promotion. Many in fact will not consume anywhere near half the 100GB in both months.

What PAYG plan are you going to go with in the in between months anyway when these promotional EE sims are not on offer or once the 2 months has elapsed is what you've got to think about.

[david16]

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Originally Posted by cooler

Do the Lebara international sims work in dongles or are they used via tethering?

Where does it say you get 100mb free data?

The listing on Amazon here says it includes 1Gb Mobile Internet. It doesn't say what Style Name that is though because it still says that even when the Style Name is select as 'Without Topup'.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lebara-Pay-I.../dp/B00KW96PN0

Saw them in Poundland.

[cooler]

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Originally Posted by david16

But the EE 200GB sim over 2 months is not a year round thing though.

It was just a suggestion re: the Lebara international sim anyway. And nowhere near everybody with one of these EE sim cards will be consuming the whole of the 100GB of data in both months of the promotion. Many in fact will not consume anywhere near half the 100GB in both months.

What PAYG plan are you going to go with in the in between months anyway when these promotional EE sims are not on offer or once the 2 months has elapsed is what you've got to think about.

Lebara international sims don't allow tethering so they are no good unless you only want some data to use on a handset. It's no way comparable to the EE SIM which can be used in a dongle or via tethering.

[culabula]

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Originally Posted by david16

But the EE 200GB sim over 2 months is not a year round thing though.

It was just a suggestion re: the Lebara international sim anyway. And nowhere near everybody with one of these EE sim cards will be consuming the whole of the 100GB of data in both months of the promotion. Many in fact will not consume anywhere near half the 100GB in both months.

What PAYG plan are you going to go with in the in between months anyway when these promotional EE sims are not on offer or once the 2 months has elapsed is what you've got to think about.

The EE promotion for me, has been non-stop for the best part of a year now and will see me well into next March.

[Textmainiac]

"What PAYG plan are you going to go with in the in between months anyway when these promotional EE sims are not on offer or once the 2 months has elapsed is what you've got to think about."

Yep. The EE SIMS can be topped up after the offer expires.

Some of the EE users have got enough special-offer SIMs to keep them going for four months or so. That's a long time in broadband.

[culabula]

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Originally Posted by Textmainiac

"What PAYG plan are you going to go with in the in between months anyway when these promotional EE sims are not on offer or once the 2 months has elapsed is what you've got to think about."

Yep. The EE SIMS can be topped up after the offer expires.

Some of the EE users have got enough special-offer SIMs to keep them going for four months or so. That's a long time in broadband.

True -and many of us have got offers of yet another 200GB for just a tenner, even on SIMs going back to the heady days of Dan and Phil.

[OldHippy53]

When do these have to be activated by? I notice people saying that they have enough to last until March

[Gigabit]

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Originally Posted by OldHippy53

When do these have to be activated by? I notice people saying that they have enough to last until March

So if you order on the 29th December, it will not arrive until after New Year. You have "14 days" from when it arrives (how they know it has arrived I have no idea as it's not tracked), so that would be about the 15th January you could activate it by.

2 months of 100GB a month would take you to the 15th of March-ish.

[mupet0000]

If EE can afford to give away 200GB per sim for £10 for....nearly a year now? I don't see why they don't just stop doing these deals and create a tariff for double the price and half the data, it would still be a great deal and they'd make more money surely.

Does anyone understand what EE are up to?

[Gigabit]

I am hoping that when BT purchases them, they might offer more data.

[jonmorris]

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Originally Posted by mupet0000

Does anyone understand what EE are up to?

I can only imagine it's some sort of way of increasing average data usage, and boosting subscriber numbers. They must issue loads of these cards.

EE has been gunning for Three over the claim of most reliable network, now stating it has overtaken Three. It also has the fastest speeds.

Perhaps it also wants to show data usage as being higher, but it is never going to offer truly unlimited data so this is the next best thing.

Or there's some sort of tax advantage or something I am not aware of...!

[cooler]

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Originally Posted by mupet0000

If EE can afford to give away 200GB per sim for £10 for....nearly a year now? I don't see why they don't just stop doing these deals and create a tariff for double the price and half the data, it would still be a great deal and they'd make more money surely.

Does anyone understand what EE are up to?

I doubt they'd make more money. People pay £50/month for 50GB on EE. Or £30/month for 25GB.

If they offered 50GB data for £10/month then people would be paying much less than they do now. People have got reason to stay on those plans because the 100GB SIM is only a limited edition.

[bookey_uk]

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Originally Posted by mupet0000

If EE can afford to give away 200GB per sim for £10 for....nearly a year now? I don't see why they don't just stop doing these deals and create a tariff for double the price and half the data, it would still be a great deal and they'd make more money surely.

Does anyone understand what EE are up to?

Yes

[jchamier]

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Originally Posted by bookey_uk

Yes

Glad someone does !

[david16]

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Originally Posted by mupet0000

If EE can afford to give away 200GB per sim for £10 for....nearly a year now? I don't see why they don't just stop doing these deals and create a tariff for double the price and half the data, it would still be a great deal and they'd make more money surely.

Does anyone understand what EE are up to?

50GB of data for £20 per month would be great. But they would need to increase the minutes and text amounts significantly compared to what's on offer on their 100GB x 2 months sims for me to seriously consider it.

50 minutes and 150 texts is far too little for me when considering that with three's PAYG, I get 300 minutes and 3000 texts and sometimes I need to use most of them.

[d123]

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Originally Posted by david16

50GB of data for £20 per month would be great. But they would need to increase the minutes and text amounts significantly compared to what's on offer on their 100GB x 2 months sims for me to seriously consider it.

50 minutes and 150 texts is far too little for me when considering that with three's PAYG, I get 300 minutes and 3000 texts and sometimes I need to use most of them.

I would jump at the chance of a sim that offered 50 minutes, 150 texts and 50GB for £20.

I use iMessage for the majority of texts and could always get a Three 3-2-1 sim for any overrun of minutes and would also probably make more use of Whatsapp calling and audio FaceTime calls (but I don't think I use more than 50-100 minutes even in a busy month).

[mupet0000]

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Originally Posted by bookey_uk

Yes

I'm glad there's a plan

Please do something awesome that makes me want to switch from Three's AYCE

[roadshow2006]

Well I've signed up!