Looking for at least a gig for a fiver? does that exist? thanks

I don't think so, I think that's too cheap.

I couldn't find one for £5. But I found this for £6 from Uswitch SIM Only deals http://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/sim_o...y=monthly_cost

I'm looking for 100GB for about 20 quid.
Realistically though building a network is something none of us can even begin to imagine the cost of.
EE have had to spend over 4 Billion quid to get what we really want, and that's near perfect coverage and they still aren't going to complete this until the end of 2017.
4 Billion quid and you want a Gig for 5 quid?
Best time to ask for that is post 2020......

You didn't mention if you want PAYG or a contract.

iD Mobile has a 1 month contract that gives you 2GB data for £7.50 per month, which is equivalent to £3.75 per GB.

http://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/sim_o...3836cbb4aa761f

Your best bet for 100gb at that price is a Three 1 year sim only with all you can eat data for £20. In fact you can use 999gb so that should do.

I thought EE's current offer of 50GB for £27.50 a month was pretty good

Where's that? I can't find it on their website.

Try mobi-data they do a rolling monthly bdata only contract for £5 for 1,g

http://shop.ee.co.uk/dongles/pay-mon...oosePlanAnchor

Nice! Thanks

Now Mobile offer 1GB of *3G only* data for £5. (EE Network)
http://www.nowpayg.co.uk/bundles/data-1gb/

Mobilek offer 1GB data, 200 mins & 200 texts for £5 (O2 Network) or Unlimited data for £10. http://mobilek.co.uk/bundles/

Are you allowed to take the sim card out of that and use it in say, a tablet or a phone? Or would data only work in the Osprey 2 mini?

Although there’s no guarantee my findings using EE PAYG data sims is they will work in any device that needs data like tablets, Smartphone + tethering or Mifi tethered to a PC. Maybe a different story if it was a Smartphone sim but as it sold with a data device it should work in any data device if there unlocked devices.

I was tinkering with the idea of buying a PAYG Osprey with 24 GB and 1 year expiry from PC World for £79-99 being a low user but I’ve already got a Mifi device and the Osprey would be redundant but for now it’s still cheaper for me just to buy the 6 GB PAYG data sims at £15 each with 3 months expiry and these work fine in any dongle, smartphone or Mifi device.

For anyone interested as I think it’s a good deal if you’re a PAYG man like me... http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/phones...35864-pdt.html

A one year 12 GB PAYG data sim on Three will set you back more than the PCW EE deal without a Mifi device as will the EE 24 GB one year as a standalone sim. What I can make of it is there giving the Osprey away and I reckoned this deal works out, spreading over a full year to £6-66 per month for 2 GB.That said it could be that PCW has dropped a ball lock on their pricing with this unit and therefore could soon disappear at this price but they had this price for at least 3 weeks that I know of.

I have a 15GB / Month Mobile Broadband Sim, as well as several 100GB x 2 from the various sim offers and they have all worked fine in a Chinese Cubot phone, as well as various non EE Mifi's and USB dongles.

Ok thanks guys because, well this is a bit complicated, but my friend is thinking about combining BT FTTC (30 down/6 up) with EE 4G (54 down/24 up) using a load balancing router connected via ethernet to a 4g travel router, and then putting the sim card from the osprey into a 4g dongle connected to the travel router. It'd mean much faster speeds and just sounds like a really cool project to me .

Very cool project, but I'd want to replace the TP-Link travel router and 4G dongle with something supporting 4G/LTE Cat6 with an ethernet port. Might cost more though, but likely better throughput.

I wonder what the throughput limits are on the load balancing router? Also the load balancing works well for a lot of users, one user will only get the full speed of either the 4G or the full speed of the broadband - it can't add them together. Two users can download fast at the same time however.

At xmas in currys you could buy the osprey with 100gb for £29 http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/4g-m...currys-2345643

Looks like some people are now selling them for more on ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-EE-Osp...UAAOSwxN5WbEPM

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EE-Osprey-...QAAOSwX~dWirUd

Tesco Mobile has 4G/3G PAYG data bundles offering 500MB (£5 for 30 days), 1GB (£7.50), 2GB (£10), 3GB (£12.50), 4GB (£15), 6GB (£17.50) or 8GB (£20).

When they run out you can buy another you can also use the sim in a 4g router

http://www.tescomobile.com/help-and-...o-data-bundles

The travel router has an ethernet port though, can't we use that? It says WAN/LAN on it so I assumed it would work.

The load balancing router only has 100mbit ports, but I think once you getting closer to 100mbit it becomes less efficient.

Couldn't you download 2 things at once and benefit from both that way? I can't remember exactly but a video I watched about the load balancing router said sometimes you'll get full combined speed, sometimes you won't depending on the app. speedtest.net gave him the full combined speed on the video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDUfP8a5zNY

The Mobilek offering - that has to be 3G only as well, no?

Also, I wonder just how unlimited it is... or is it unlimited but horribly slow?

Being that (according to a dig about) it appears to be part of Kingdom Mobile, who run on EE, I'd expect it to be 3G only also.


Indeed - it's much more likely to be unlimited* than unlimited, with the throttle being used (although would be happy to be proved wrong).