Giffgaff 4G Speeds

deko said:
£22 for 4GB from EE Here, pretty much the best deal I've found. £21 for the same directly from Three so it's six and half a dozen really.

Could probably get a cheaper deal with one of the piggyback networks (Virgin, ID, Tesco etc) but chances are you'll run into the same issues as Giffgaff. BT have a deal on just now with 20GB for £21 a month, they still piggyback onto EE but being BT they probably have a bit more clout to not get strangled service.
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Cheers.

I found a deal on hotukdeals. Talk Mobile 4GB 3K mins 5K texts after Topcashback works out £6.04 a month.

I have heard Talk Mobile piggy back on Vodaphone so if the speeds are crap I will have to cancel it and look elsewhere and put my hand in my pocket :p
 
Spartacus said:
Ive just switched from three to o2, this is the speed I can get at quiet times

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During busy times of day it's between 20 and 35 meg down so still decent.
I wouldn't go near giff gaff though from what I've heard about their data speeds during the day time.

Cheers
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Someone put up a speed test of giffgaff for a laugh :D

I think I was getting about 100kb/s DL not long ago. This may have been 3g though.
 
I went onto the giffgaff website yesterday and under the announcements section there was a thread about data speeds, basically saying they know its important and detailing what they are doing to improve it.

I thought this was good thing, until I noticed the post was made a year ago!
 
Gigabit said:
"Dealing with it" means waiting for the merger to not go through and then be closed down absorbed into O2.
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Where's the cheeky wink to go at the end of this? :)

AFAIK GiffGaff have a (probably scaling) amount of data they buy off telefonica and then data over this has a larger cost charge. As customer demand exceeds this total cap then they throttle with a view to making the figures at the month end tally up without too much excess cost.

The alternative is packet prioritisation (possibly in line with the above) - this would be most apparent in peak time as some of you are seeing too :( This is just the reality of using MVMOs with low costs and scaling tech, they need to spend more or be absorbed ASAP if they want to keep any of their customer base (if indeed, this is their goal - it might not be).
 
It's a shame however that I need to wait for past midnight for at least some decent speeds:

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Pretty much what I was seeing when I first moved to giffgaff before they had bandwidth issues.
 
I just bought a vodafone PAYG phone because it has 50GB free data for the first month.... 2Mbps down 0.2Mbps up. :eek: :D

If i manage to use any, I'll be getting it unlocked when it runs out. :p
 
marc2003 said:
I just bought a vodafone PAYG phone because it has 50GB free data for the first month.... 2Mbps down 0.2Mbps up. :eek: :D

If i manage to use any, I'll be getting it unlocked when it runs out. :p
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Just tried where I am - just 2 bars of 3G not even HSDPA and getting 9MBit down, 3Mbit up :)
 
IIRC, new contracts get 2 months of unlimited data?? I'm sure there must be some small print though. You could do some serious damage with those speeds. :p
 
Giffgaff are God awful.

Seriously spend £5 a month extra and use a real company. I thought giffgaff was aimed at college, uni and penny pinchers :p

50meg with o2, its worth paying a bit more for some things.
 
The voda thing is data test drive, 2 months of free data at the start of your contract Details / T&Cs
Certainly not taken near Voda UK HQ. Come on EE engineers, i know you're on here, show us the power of LTE cat5 or do you not have enough cap at 1800 to do it justice :P
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GiffGaff used to be good, but I got banned for buying unlimited internet goody bags for using too much data even though they say it's "unlimited" I know nothing is unlimited as such.. but I wasn't even using much data each month.
Also they restrict access to a lot of thing on the net.
Speeds were dire too.. Their 4G package only allows 6gb of 4G data to be consumed then they throttle you to 256k.. or it's 12gb not sure.

I will never go back, I'm with Three now and their unlimited tariff is much better, no restrictions, I can download as much as I want without them moaning at me and the 4G speeds are good.

Only pain in the arse with them is that unlimited used to be £15, then it went to £20, now it's £25!
 
TripleT said:
Giffgaff are God awful.

Seriously spend £5 a month extra and use a real company. I thought giffgaff was aimed at college, uni and penny pinchers :p

50meg with o2, its worth paying a bit more for some things.
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Thing is I got a GG sim for a backup - when I first got it would get ~3.6Mbit up and down (seemed to be hard capped) - would have been quite happy even with like 0.5Mbit - but literally 9 times out of 10 when I used the sim I got dialup speeds.
 
mark43 said:
Still a lot though, data prices have got silly. I guess we're paying for the 4G investment that most people don't really need.
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It's needed in most areas, it can go to lower signal levels than 3G so it can got a bit further before it dies. Not to mention some areas where 3G is already on it's knees, central London for instance. :p

Of course it's subjective too as to whether an individual needs it. My nan doesn't, but i probably do as i tend to notice when an area i am in is congested.
 
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Ah fair enough, I was just thinking about the speed difference rather than other factors. Just annoys me that the prices are rising so rapidly.
 
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