4G EE contracts

[Chae1]

Good shout about the antennas, we were using them with 3g and 3 g routers(they're for sale too). I knew they were 3/4g compatible but not the finer points of it all.
They won't be big money , just needing them moved on.

What contract are you on for 4g? How many gb do you use per month?

We are in a poor area for internet and between phone line and bt broadband pay a fair bit per month.

2 kids who constantly download movies and myself with a tff problem.

 

[Davey]

What contract are you on for 4g? How many gb do you use per month?

We are in a poor area for internet and between phone line and bt broadband pay a fair bit per month.

2 kids who constantly download movies and myself with a tff problem.

We get through around 100gb a month although if Apple TV and YouTube was banned I'm sure it would be a fraction of that!

 

[fermerboy]

What contract are you on for 4g? How many gb do you use per month?

We are in a poor area for internet and between phone line and bt broadband pay a fair bit per month.

2 kids who constantly download movies and myself with a tff problem.

Aye Chae, we are on a 50gb/month with EE for £26/month, 2 years which is just finished soon. They were the only 4g option the last time, but Vodafone have upgraded so I need to see what they can offer. My kids are not into internet much yet and we've no smart TV, just too much TFF , good bit of surfing and a little bit of iPlayer etc and we would only use about 10-20gb.
Neighbours have two teenagers and their fixed line broadband averages about 120gb a month.
Something to remember is that 50gb is data up and down, wife got a new laptop with office 365, it then backed all the stuff I moved over to it up to the cloud, that months 50gb vanished like sna aff a dyke in Jully.
Still have fixed phone line, with (dire) broadband and calls. Tried to cancel the BB bit but it's the free bit!
Sooner they start unlimited data on 4g for folk like us the better. It's not fair that folk in towns with 20mbps plus are getting upgraded and rural people get no action.

 

[B'o'B]

Aye Chae, we are on a 50gb/month with EE for £26/month, 2 years which is just finished soon. They were the only 4g option the last time, but Vodafone have upgraded so I need to see what they can offer. My kids are not into internet much yet and we've no smart TV, just too much TFF , good bit of surfing and a little bit of iPlayer etc and we would only use about 10-20gb.
Neighbours have two teenagers and their fixed line broadband averages about 120gb a month.
Something to remember is that 50gb is data up and down, wife got a new laptop with office 365, it then backed all the stuff I moved over to it up to the cloud, that months 50gb vanished like sna aff a dyke in Jully.
Still have fixed phone line, with (dire) broadband and calls. Tried to cancel the BB bit but it's the free bit!
Sooner they start unlimited data on 4g for folk like us the better. It's not fair that folk in towns with 20mbps plus are getting upgraded and rural people get no action.

I’ve just got one of these:-
http://hybridaccess.com/index.php/boosty-for-home/
It’s a small box that plugs into the back of your router which also talks to a 4g router (or phone via an app) over WiFi and shares the data using your landline broadband as much as possible, but when you need high speed it sends the ‘overflow’ over the 4g network.
I got it set up yesterday and it’s turned my 2Mbps landline into being able to go up to about 10Mbps. I got a 50Gb EE4G (£25/mo +VAT) which I was going to try as my only internet but I was gobbling through the data too fast.

 

[fermerboy]

I’ve just got one of these:-
http://hybridaccess.com/index.php/boosty-for-home/
It’s a small box that plugs into the back of your router which also talks to a 4g router (or phone via an app) over WiFi and shares the data using your landline broadband as much as possible, but when you need high speed it sends the ‘overflow’ over the 4g network.
I got it set up yesterday and it’s turned my 2Mbps landline into being able to go up to about 10Mbps. I got a 50Gb EE4G (£25/mo +VAT) which I was going to try as my only internet but I was gobbling through the data too fast.

Thanks for that.
Been looking for a way of combining the two broadbands and couldn't find anything.
Away to look at that now.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

I’ve just got one of these:-
http://hybridaccess.com/index.php/boosty-for-home/
It’s a small box that plugs into the back of your router which also talks to a 4g router (or phone via an app) over WiFi and shares the data using your landline broadband as much as possible, but when you need high speed it sends the ‘overflow’ over the 4g network.
I got it set up yesterday and it’s turned my 2Mbps landline into being able to go up to about 10Mbps. I got a 50Gb EE4G (£25/mo +VAT) which I was going to try as my only internet but I was gobbling through the data too fast.

Will the Boosty work with an actual 4G router as the alternative internet gateway or only a 3G/4G mobile phone (which it appears to suggest on the website)?

 

[B'o'B]

Will the Boosty work with an actual 4G router as the alternative internet gateway or only a 3G/4G mobile phone (which it appears to suggest on the website)?

Yes I’m using mine with an ASUS 4g router. I think you get more control over what happens when using it with the app. The Wi-fi link between the Boosty and the 4g source needs to be pretty strong to get the best performance. It has the added benefit of failover between the landline and 4g so it one goes down you stay connected.

 

[Alf]

i am with 3 . it works fantastic 40gb for £16 inc vat . I have 2 of them . sacked bt .

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Yes I’m using mine with an ASUS 4g router. I think you get more control over what happens when using it with the app. The Wi-fi link between the Boosty and the 4g source needs to be pretty strong to get the best performance. It has the added benefit of failover between the landline and 4g so it one goes down you stay connected.

Cool. Is there a sub after 12 months? Something I read.

 

[B'o'B]

Cool. Is there a sub after 12 months? Something I read.

Yes £39/annum

 

[Courier]

......2 kids who constantly download movies and myself with a tff problem.

The TFF requirement will be insigificant compared to streaming TV.

A bit like an LED lightbulb compared to a 3 Kw electric heater

 

[fermerboy]

Will the Boosty work with an actual 4G router as the alternative internet gateway or only a 3G/4G mobile phone (which it appears to suggest on the website)?

Good to hear that it will work with a 4g router too.

I'd suspect that given our fixed broadband is very poor at 0.5mbps or less, most of the demand is going to be met by the 4g source which might mean that the data saving isn't that great.

If you have more usable fixed line BB of say 2mbps, then a lot of stuff will run on that,(general surfing, etc) with the boosty only having to kick in for downloading, iPlayer etc, that would mean a more even spread of data usage.

I don't know much about it, perhaps there is a way of setting how which demands are met by which source, or how long a wait is acceptable before 4g takes the load.
I might be wrong though on my understanding of how it works, and as they say, every little bit helps.

 

[milkloss]

Cool. Is there a sub after 12 months? Something I read.

Interested in the Boosty idea and having done the tests online it shows with bb at 3.5 meg Boosty could up it to 15.5 meg so a vast improvement. It seems the Boosty is rented and £39 a year after initial purchase year.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Interested in the Boosty idea and having done the tests online it shows with bb at 3.5 meg Boosty could up it to 15.5 meg so a vast improvement. It seems the Boosty is rented and £39 a year after initial purchase year.

Probably not so much good in my situation as our copper broadband is so poor, but I could see situation where it could work. I’d rather save the line rental/ADSL charge and use it for another SIM card which gives me 50x the speed of the copper.

Note you can actually do the same thing as the Boosty with a decent 4G router that has a “WAN” ethernet port (plug your ADSL router into that). Then setup the 4G router to “load balance” or “round-robin” or “host priority” or several other methods of allocating internet bound traffic out to either the 4G interface or the ADSL interface. It is admittedly probably more techy and fiddly to setup than the smartphone app interface that the Boosty uses for setup and admin, but it can be done. It’s the reason they are called routers!

 

[fieldtalk]

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[milkloss]

Probably not so much good in my situation as our copper broadband is so poor, but I could see situation where it could work. I’d rather save the line rental/ADSL charge and use it for another SIM card which gives me 50x the speed of the copper.

Note you can actually do the same thing as the Boosty with a decent 4G router that has a “WAN” ethernet port (plug your ADSL router into that). Then setup the 4G router to “load balance” or “round-robin” or “host priority” or several other methods of allocating internet bound traffic out to either the 4G interface or the ADSL interface. It is admittedly probably more techy and fiddly to setup than the smartphone app interface that the Boosty uses for setup and admin, but it can be done. It’s the reason they are called routers!

For us I think the sky box could be set to use the copper, the TV set to use copper+4g for Netflix as could ipads and iphones. The issue is pc’s downloading windoze updates using the 4g data too much. Our biggest bugbear is probably the Mrs uploading photos to bonus print for getting pics printed, copper is just too slow for uploads.

Would my idea above make sense do you think? And could it be done without the costs of Boosty as you suggest? Opinion appreciated.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

For us I think the sky box could be set to use the copper, the TV set to use copper+4g for Netflix as could ipads and iphones. The issue is pc’s downloading windoze updates using the 4g data too much. Our biggest bugbear is probably the Mrs uploading photos to bonus print for getting pics printed, copper is just too slow for uploads.

Would my idea above make sense do you think? And could it be done without the costs of Boosty as you suggest? Opinion appreciated.

I think @B'o'B is your man for specifics around the Boosty.

I'm not sure if the Boosty can be as granular as you need it - I think you can only tell it to allocate a certain device to either copper, 4G, or 4G+copper but can it tell you're doing for example windows updates, so don't burn 4G bandwidth for that, only use copper? Don't think it can.

That specific example is actually a lot harder to do (automatically) than it sounds. The kludge would be to manually swap to a different WiFi network (for example) which was the ADSL router, for system updates, then swap back again once you were done.

I'm fairly sure the 'rules' that Boosty understands only look at the host device (address) rather than inspecting what sort of traffic the host device is using/requesting. But I could be wrong.

 

[B'o'B]

For us I think the sky box could be set to use the copper, the TV set to use copper+4g for Netflix as could ipads and iphones.

Yes this is easy.

The issue is pc’s downloading windoze updates using the 4g data too much. Our biggest bugbear is probably the Mrs uploading photos to bonus print for getting pics printed, copper is just too slow for uploads.

It’s easy change a device to just copper the easiest way would probably become to leave the PC on copper only and just put it onto boosty when you want faster speeds. The problem would be remembering to knock it back to copper at the end! A more technical solution is beyond my IT skills. You could give Boosty a call and ask tech support. I bet it’s not the first time that question will have been asked!

 

[B'o'B]

I’ve put a question on the support forum about it so I’ll let you know when I get an answer.

 

[Chae1]

They usually run some deals in January, to keep the punters rolling in after the Xmas splurge. Might we worth waiting till then? I’m interested too as I’m up for renewal. Also some better leverage/discounts if you’ve got another contract/numbers with them.

Openreach were busy putting new street cabs in the village and near our lane, around six months ago, since then nothing.

Any good deals on the go yet?

Been offered 50gb a month for 24.99 on EE. How does this sound? It's a 2 year contract.