Best Network for a high data user and mid (sometimes high) text user, but low (sometimes mid) call u

pokerking · 21 Jun 2014 at 14:27

Three Sim Only 30 Day with unlimited DATA is IMO the best network for DATA.

Has 4G and excellent 3G speeds, got 30+Mbps non 4G so very impressive where I lived, could see 60+Gb per month easilly, various apps such as Sky Go, Spotify Google Drive streaming films etc.

Do not have to worry about any DATA limits and is very fast.

Now have a S5 on 02 with 4G 5Gb Allowance, calmed down loads but 5Gb is enough for me now. Only update apps and download heavilly at home on Fibre. Use Youtube and browse site dailly and never run out.

All depends how much DATA you use.

DAnDan · 21 Jun 2014 at 14:43

pokerking said:
Three Sim Only 30 Day with unlimited DATA is IMO the best network for DATA.

Has 4G and excellent 3G speeds, got 30+Mbps non 4G so very impressive where I lived, could see 60+Gb per month easilly, various apps such as Sky Go, Spotify Google Drive streaming films etc.

Do not have to worry about any DATA limits and is very fast.

Now have a S5 on 02 with 4G 5Gb Allowance, calmed down loads but 5Gb is enough for me now. Only update apps and download heavilly at home on Fibre. Use Youtube and browse site dailly and never run out.

All depends how much DATA you use.

Also on the area! I've just got a three SIM only plan, and the data speeds are absysmal. Typically at home and in the local area I'm getting speeds of around 0.1 MB/s. Terrible!

pokerking · 21 Jun 2014 at 14:48

Really thats shocking?? Ill try get a picture of the speeds I got on a Sony SP 3G only.

DAnDan · 21 Jun 2014 at 14:50

pokerking said:
Really thats shocking?? Ill try get a picture of the speeds I got on a Sony SP 3G only.

Yep it's been abysmal! I did manage to get it up to around 300 KB/s a couple of times, but it swiftly comes back down to 100 or less.

After midnight it's much better, even saw 5 Mb/s once. I guess Three have some pretty aggressive traffic shaping going on here.

Ryan-3 · 21 Jun 2014 at 14:51

Three.

I use quite a bit of data and texts, rarely call. Always been spot on for me.

pokerking · 21 Jun 2014 at 15:00

Jony27 · 21 Jun 2014 at 15:28

Does the 3 one plan allow tethering?

pokerking · 21 Jun 2014 at 15:32

Yep, used it on the non tether plan and it limits your speed to unusable, very very slow. They know you do it even to a tablet running Android and using Chrome,

pokerking · 21 Jun 2014 at 15:40

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/three-kills-unlimited-3g-and-4g-tethering-for-new-customers

Just seen this Hmmm, thought there was a tether plan with Three?

this_is_gav · 21 Jun 2014 at 16:18

Three's H speed is nuts up here (primarily near Alnwick and Seahouses in Northumberland). We're very much in the sticks, but both at home and work I get full H reception and at work the download speed is actually faster the Wifi (not internet speed, LAN Wifi!) transfer speeds!

Edit: Just done a speedtest at home:

pokerking said:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/three-kills-unlimited-3g-and-4g-tethering-for-new-customers

Just seen this Hmmm, thought there was a tether plan with Three?

There was, but people were replacing standard broadband with it (probably just about fair enough) but then proceeding to use it for torrenting tens and hundreds of gigs of data.

thep02 · 21 Jun 2014 at 17:08

DAnDan said:
Also on the area! I've just got a three SIM only plan, and the data speeds are absysmal. Typically at home and in the local area I'm getting speeds of around 0.1 MB/s. Terrible!

Yup this, I used to get up to 23mbs down on my N4 now at best I get 3 sometimes it's in the kbs on my s4 everyone I know on 3 by me is having the same trouble and we've had 4g in parts since Feb, I'm moving to ee once my contracts are all up.