Unlimited 3g for £4.50 a month

jsmoke

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I am currently using a T-mobile 3g dongle for my PC at £4.50 p/month. You get a 1gig cap then the speed is supposedly reduced although I can tell you 90% of the time I can still watch youtube videos after the 1gig, sometimes I have to restart modem though and then it back to 7.2mbs. It's virtually as good as regular broadband 90% of the time. I can't watch BBC iplayer but that's about it, so I just kept it. Isn't this an awfully good deal, seems to good to be true for wireless 3g?

Also, can I somehow use this dongle on a smartphone, maybe USB to micro USB connection and install the dongles software on phone?
 
If you shop around on Hotukdeals, you can find a £10 unlimited data deal (which includes tethering)
 
jsmoke said:
I am currently using a T-mobile 3g dongle for my PC at £4.50 p/month. You get a 1gig cap then the speed is supposedly reduced although I can tell you 90% of the time I can still watch youtube videos after the 1gig, sometimes I have to restart modem though and then it back to 7.2mbs. It's virtually as good as regular broadband 90% of the time. I can't watch BBC iplayer but that's about it, so I just kept it. Isn't this an awfully good deal, seems to good to be true for wireless 3g?

Also, can I somehow use this dongle on a smartphone, maybe USB to micro USB connection and install the dongles software on phone?
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Where it says it has connected at 7.2Mbps, that's not what your actual throughput is. You are connecting to their 3G cellular network at the HSDPA speed (7.2Mbps).

What they will do is then throttle your bandwidth at their end when they assign an IP to your connection. You'll actually only be downloading at a fraction of that advertised "7.2".

It probably is too good to be true, and you'll be dumped with a rather large, albeit unsurprising, bill from them.

As for using it on a phone, not that I'm aware of. Were it the other way around, then yes certainly.
 
jsmoke said:
I am currently using a T-mobile 3g dongle for my PC at £4.50 p/month. You get a 1gig cap then the speed is supposedly reduced although I can tell you 90% of the time I can still watch youtube videos after the 1gig, sometimes I have to restart modem though and then it back to 7.2mbs. It's virtually as good as regular broadband 90% of the time. I can't watch BBC iplayer but that's about it, so I just kept it. Isn't this an awfully good deal, seems to good to be true for wireless 3g?

Also, can I somehow use this dongle on a smartphone, maybe USB to micro USB connection and install the dongles software on phone?
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Unless you don't have a land-line, it doesn't seem like a great deal to me.

1gig cap in today's world is laughable, even if it isn't a "cut you off" cap.
 
bJN said:
Where it says it has connected at 7.2Mbps, that's not what your actual throughput is. You are connecting to their 3G cellular network at the HSDPA speed (7.2Mbps).

What they will do is then throttle your bandwidth at their end when they assign an IP to your connection. You'll actually only be downloading at a fraction of that advertised "7.2".

It probably is too good to be true, and you'll be dumped with a rather large, albeit unsurprising, bill from them.

As for using it on a phone, not that I'm aware of. Were it the other way around, then yes certainly.
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I did a speedtest on my phone yesterday, came up with 7.something Mbps, on O2. Tonight is coming up with 3.4Mbps. Not bad! I love my £12 /month unlimited data
 
bJN said:
Where it says it has connected at 7.2Mbps, that's not what your actual throughput is. You are connecting to their 3G cellular network at the HSDPA speed (7.2Mbps).

What they will do is then throttle your bandwidth at their end when they assign an IP to your connection. You'll actually only be downloading at a fraction of that advertised "7.2".

It probably is too good to be true, and you'll be dumped with a rather large, albeit unsurprising, bill from them.

As for using it on a phone, not that I'm aware of. Were it the other way around, then yes certainly.
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I get over 11mbs tethering through my phone, defiantly not throttled at their end at all.

This is downloads not a speed test.
 
Oh and O2 now use HSPA+ in places, which offers theoretical speeds of 337 Mbit/s

edit: seems it's limited to 21Mbit/s on my phone. Still happy with 8 though at quiet times!
 
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