Tethering on 3

dl8860 · 20 Oct 2014 at 17:46

Does anyone on 3 tether from their phone these days?

I seem to remember seeing the option to add unlimited tethering a while ago for £5 as an addon to my current contract (has unlim data).
Now the only option seems to be to add "1GB personal hotspot" for £5 which seems a paltry amount.

I know the reason they've reined in tethering allowances was because some people were basically using it as a full time broadband substitute and taking the mick. But £5 a month for 1GB tether allowance is ridiculous.
It should be more like 2GB free tether allowance (will make minimal difference to their bandwidth and usage and I'm technically paying for the data anyway, just using it on a different device) then £5 for 10GB, £10 for 20GB. That would certainly stop people taking the **** and you'd think would be more than enough to earn profit on but I guess it's a 'what the customer is willing to pay' situation.

Just wondering if there are any alternatives or about other's experiences?

Perhaps they're trying to eradicate tethering altogether and make people get separate data contracts :mad:

Confused · 20 Oct 2014 at 17:55

I recently took out a 3 contract, and from what I remember seeing when I was looking:

On a new SIM-only deal, if you have All-You-Can-Eat data, you have 4gb of tethering.

If you're on a new 24 month contract with AYCE data, then you have 2gb of tethering.

Glaucus · 20 Oct 2014 at 17:56

Yes and a lot of it, but I'm on the old one plan.

You could change to the new sim contracts that have 4g of tethering included.

Kainz · 20 Oct 2014 at 18:28

I'm on an old Ultimate Internet Sim 200 monthly plan and tether occasionally. Mostly when I'm staying at a hotel whilst visiting the girlfriend. I'll have my iPad with me and just tether it to my Find 5. Just arrived home from a weekend away and used 3.4gb of data. This is roughly what I use most of the time when away from home.

Never had any issues though and I've been with 3 for about 3 years now.

kayomani · 20 Oct 2014 at 18:41

About 15 months into my one plan and their tethering changes didn't affect my contract. I did end up abusing it a bit a few weeks ago, ended up providing internet for a lan party (Internet failed) and went through about 38gb in 24 hours.

dl8860 · 20 Oct 2014 at 18:49

kayomani said:
about 38gb in 24 hours.

You bad man. This is why we can't have nice things

Django x2 · 20 Oct 2014 at 21:12

Yep, SIM only 3 deal here is 4GB with one of their "unlimited" plans

miniyazz · 20 Oct 2014 at 22:08

Yep currently tethering. Unfortunately have limited option at the moment due to temporary accommodation. As soon as I'm in a place long enough to have proper internet I'll be on it like a shot.. as it is, can't complain, I have at least 4Mb/s later in the evening and the highest I've hit is about 16Mb/s I think.

rhysduck · 20 Oct 2014 at 22:13

New contract with 3 on Thursday. 1gb of data and they said I can use it all for tethering if I wish with no additional cost.

IIRC the "One Plan" includes tethering.

fowler002 · 21 Oct 2014 at 02:28

rhysduck said:
New contract with 3 on Thursday. 1gb of data and they said I can use it all for tethering if I wish with no additional cost.

IIRC the "One Plan" includes tethering.

The old one plan had unlimited(I'm on the old sim only, coming up to the end of the 12month as got it last December), the new one plan has a set amount monthly(I seem to recall reading 3gb but people in previous posts said sim on,y was 4gb).
I've used tethering over the last 10months but not really used it to it's fullest, still need to buy a better phone(currently have the Xperia play) so I can make use of the 4g.