Can you use a phone (4g) tethered connection to replace home line?

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Are there any more unlimited tethering plans?

I might be living in a house without Internet, wonder if I could tether my phone to my xbox live and if it would work?

(budget is unlimited however I could guess it costs around 30 quid)

It will be Ee as apparently Cambridge has best signal with them.

Cheers guys!
 
The Craig said:
Are there any more unlimited tethering plans?

I might be living in a house without Internet, wonder if I could tether my phone to my xbox live and if it would work?

(budget is unlimited however I could guess it costs around 30 quid)

It will be Ee as apparently Cambridge has best signal with them.

Cheers guys!
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EE have some pretty stingy data caps, especially so on 4G.

No chance you'll get anything unlimited on 4G with EE. Three used to offer it, but they changed their contract terms recently to exclude tethering from most plans.
 
For normal internet usage 4G will be fine, but you mentioned tethering to your xbox, you have to bear in mind the ping won't be anywhere near what you'll get from a landline. So anything like FPS is going to be a pain to play.
 
The Craig said:
Are there any more unlimited tethering plans?

I might be living in a house without Internet, wonder if I could tether my phone to my xbox live and if it would work?

(budget is unlimited however I could guess it costs around 30 quid)

It will be Ee as apparently Cambridge has best signal with them.

Cheers guys!
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The infrastructure is not designed for truly unlimited requirements, people hammering the tethering on other networks are exactly why data caps have to exist. For £30 p/m you could have a decent fixed line solution and actually have playable latencies but if a fixed line is not an option then I'm afraid you are **** out of luck for a heavy use, low ping option.
 
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Columbo said:
The infrastructure is not designed for truly unlimited requirements, people hammering the tethering on other networks are exactly why data caps have to exist. For £30 p/m you could have a decent fixed line solution and actually have playable latencies but if a fixed line is not an option then I'm afraid you are **** out of luck for a heavy use, low ping option.
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This is basically what my research led me to believe... The price is just an issue just looking to see if I could get a fixed line in a flat in moving into. Cheers guys
 
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