Broadband/4g

upnortheast

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Prices have plummeted over the last 2 years. When we were on mobile BB we were paying £70 a month for 200gb & no unlimited contracts were available.
EE now have unlimited data for £25 a month less 10% if you are an existing customers. EE often have better offers if you speak to them on the phone, especially if you are unsure about going with them (If you know what I mean )
I expect the other networks will be not far behind.
In practice the choice of mobile network will be less to do with price, more to do with who has the best signal in your location
 

upnortheast

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
I must find a 4G hub to try, network is patchy at the house though.. not sure if a good high gain antenna would be enough to overcome it.
Climb a ladder up the side of the house, or go up in the loader man cage & see if your mobile gets a better signal in potential sites for an antenna. Do you know where the local mast is ? That`s the side of the house you need to be on
 

farmerm

Member
Location
Shropshire
Prices have plummeted over the last 2 years. When we were on mobile BB we were paying £70 a month for 200gb & no unlimited contracts were available.
EE now have unlimited data for £25 a month less 10% if you are an existing customers. EE often have better offers if you speak to them on the phone, especially if you are unsure about going with them (If you know what I mean )
I expect the other networks will be not far behind.
In practice the choice of mobile network will be less to do with price, more to do with who has the best signal in your location
Not only signal strength but how subscribed the local mast for your preferred provider is too... In most instances the physical capacity for device connection and backhaul capacity isn't an issue but it certainly is on some masts!
 

upnortheast

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Not only signal strength but how subscribed the local mast for your preferred provider is too... In most instances the physical capacity for device connection and backhaul capacity isn't an issue but it certainly is on some masts!
One advantage of being out in the countryside, less likelyhood of that being an issue
 

Kidds

Member
Horticulture
I have 4G broadband with a decent router and a good external aerial. With Three, started off reasonable but now 4meg at best and cuts off multiple times a day. Certainly would not recommend.
Annoying thing is I tried plenty of providers beforehand and it seems like they cut their signal as soon as I signed up. Had 49meg on one single occasion and extremely rare it makes double figures the rest of the time.
 

upnortheast

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Lad that works for us tried Three, which comes from the same mast as EE
Speed was great in the middle of the night but during the day was being throttled to varying degrees.
He went back to EE where he is consistently over 50mbs
 

Ukjay

Member
Location
Wales!
I have 4G broadband with a decent router and a good external aerial. With Three, started off reasonable but now 4meg at best and cuts off multiple times a day. Certainly would not recommend.
Annoying thing is I tried plenty of providers beforehand and it seems like they cut their signal as soon as I signed up. Had 49meg on one single occasion and extremely rare it makes double figures the rest of the time.

I wouldn't say that is a symptom of a lot of 4g, but simply something linked to your set up / provider.

What do you use on your phone, is it a different provider, as you could use that to check?
 

bobk

Member
Location
stafford
What does the dongle connect to? Your phone or it's own service
It's stand alone .just needs some power

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farmerm

Member
Location
Shropshire
One advantage of being out in the countryside, less likelyhood of that being an issue
depends on who farms around you... not an issue here but some low capacity rural masts have to carry traffic for large seasonal worker populations for short periods... also providers seem less quick to admit and react to a mast fault when a mast is in a quite location... we have had a situation before where we had remote devices in one area sending data, they all would connect to the network but the mast was not forwarding the traffic in either one or possibly both directions.
 

v8willy

Member
Mixed Farmer
It's stand alone .just needs some power

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We had a box like that a few years ago, had to reset it at least once a day, sometimes twice, was a great job otherwise as could have wifi wherever you went.
Now have the same setup with 3 but unlimited & they gave us a Huawei box with a wall plug on it, much better job, gets reset maybe every 10 days on average.
Could take it with you with the right cable &b run it off a usb port but haven't had the need to yet.
 
Lad that works for us tried Three, which comes from the same mast as EE
Speed was great in the middle of the night but during the day was being throttled to varying degrees.
He went back to EE where he is consistently over 50mbs

I find Three more than adequate for my mobile needs and it comes with Roaming in Oz, NZ and USA so the NZ in particular suits me @cos while I am there it uses whatever is the best signal.

Got Unlimted Calls, and Texts and 18 GB of Data for under £12 per month
 

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