Anyone running EE home (mobile) broadband?

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We're in the process of buying a house but have just discovered that the best we can get as far as a wired internet connection is 3Mb - 10Mb over ADSL. No Virgin and no FTTC planned over the next 2 years.

I'm looking at mobile broadband options before I kick the entire thing in to touch (can't be without decent broadband as I work from home a lot and live my entire life online) and EE looks to offer the best deal at £34 / month for 50GB data and their home modem thing. Has anyone got this?
50GB isn't a huge amount of data allowance but I guess I can always buy a second contract and swap sims mid-way through the month.

Thoughts on this sort of setup? You'd have thought that in Berkshire in 2016 you'd be able to get decent broadband everywhere, but no.
 
Personally I'd take 3MB internet with no cap. Can you check with neighbors to see what speeds they get?
 
Take the fixed line no cap, run an add blocker, I lived on 3-4mb internet for 8 years up to last year. not great but OK even with a 24/7 computer.
 
I'd also go with the fixed line connection however I would do everything possible to maximise the sync speed such as removing all phone extensions and fitting an NTE5 filtered faceplate to get as close to that 10mbit sync speed as possible.
 
I'm just concerned that I will not be able to live with it after being spoiled with 200Mb Virgin....
Spoke to the current owner just now and they say that they get 5Mb ish. Not going to be enough to stream Netflix / Prime.
 
I'd get a dirt cheap/"free" ADSL line just for stuff that can wait, and maybe have a 3G/4G and selectively route important stuff over that.
 
Caged said:
I'd get a dirt cheap/"free" ADSL line just for stuff that can wait, and maybe have a 3G/4G and selectively route important stuff over that.
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Done this for a mate at his business out in the sticks. Policy based routing with IP SLA on a Cisco 2901 directing stuff like web traffic out of a 3G dongle and then stuff like his website out of the 3-5mb line. Works pretty well but with everything starting to use http/https its becoming harder to redirect stuff.

Luckily he is moving to a new FTTP site.
 
I'm in the same boat and used EE for a while but have reverted back to a 6Mb connection having come from full speed fibre in London.

I work from home a lot and for me the bandwidth is plenty. Reliability and latency are more important and the fixed line is just better for that. I still chew through loads of bandwidth so mobile internet was becoming prohibitively expensive compared to fixed line.

Where I miss it is in my leisure time as streaming needs to be restricted to 720 and I can't make use of the 4K services I can get. Having said that I've got used to scheduling stuff to download overnight. Services like PlayOn turn your computer into a PVR for services like Amazon Prime and Netflix.

If for work I had to do huge downloads then it would be a problem but my time is used on web applications and VOIP type stuff which doesn't need bandwidth.
 
We'll go with the fixed line for now. Virgin say they are cabling the area in 2017 so I guess I can live with it for a couple of years.
 
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