Reply to: 56k modems

[TheFaQQer]

1gb a month is roughly 30Mb a day, I find that's more than enough for mobile use. I average 4-6mb a day with emails and the net during a commute which goes up to 10-12mb when playing WoW.

<chef in "t-mobile salesmen" mode>

I have to factor in my TPD time, hence the 3GB

[chef]

i'm on the Flext 35 (simply because you get double the amount of call/text allowance over the flext 30 plan) with web n walk plus..

flext 35 is £25.54:

flext 35 with web n walk is £31.92

"Use your allowance on any mix of UK calls, texts & picture messages. £180 allowance gets you up to 900 minutes or 1800 texts. Don’t decide in advance, just use your phone and use it up." although "To ensure a high quality of service for all our customers a 1GB (of data both sent and received in the UK) per month fair use policy applies. If you exceed 1GB per month, we may tell you to reduce your future use. If you again exceed 1GB per month, we may tell you that we are going to apply network protection controls, resulting in a reduced network speed for 14 days. "

flext 35 with web n walk plus is £36.17

as web n walk but with a 3gb browsing limit and VOIP is allowed.

1gb a month is roughly 30Mb a day, I find that's more than enough for mobile use. I average 4-6mb a day with emails and the net during a commute which goes up to 10-12mb when playing WoW.

they also do a max version with a 10gb limit.

<chef in "t-mobile salesmen" mode>

[TheFaQQer]

I don't think any of them are actually unlimited - the limit seems to be 3GB on most of them in the small print.

[VectraMan]

I use "t-mobile web n walk Plus", the plus bit costs more but gives you no usage limit per month, all i do is plug phone to laptop (via min usb to usb cable) and im connected anywhere there is a phone signal.

Quite tempted by that. It seems to be £29 per month though.

[chef]

I use "t-mobile web n walk Plus", the plus bit costs more but gives you no usage limit per month, all i do is plug phone to laptop (via min usb to usb cable) and im connected anywhere there is a phone signal.

Decent ish speeds, 10Mb connection between phone and laptop, download speeds of around 250-400 kbps. Not bad considering your mobile. Good enough to play World of Warcraft on the train atleast.

No idea how much it costs, think it's around £6.99, it gets added to my mobile contract bill and comes direct from co. account

[TheFaQQer]

Okay, thanks. It’s certainly food for thought. Did you get rid of your landline and ISP, or do you have both mobile and landline broadband?

I have landline and ISP at home, but I normally work away, hence the USB connection. I need a connection at home for the family, but this is just to enable my access when I'm away.

[TimberWolf]

Okay, thanks. It’s certainly food for thought. Did you get rid of your landline and ISP, or do you have both mobile and landline broadband?

[TheFaQQer]

I’ve just been looking at their £10/month Broadband Lite package, and it seems pretty good considering it’s about half the price of my fixed landline and ISP costs. But I can’t figure out from their site whether the broadband package is a modem only, or whether a mobile phone comes with it too?

USB modem only.

You could put the SIM card in a phone and use it to receive calls, too, though. And you can send texts through the modem and software.

[Archangel]

On a related note. What’s the cheapest way to get Internet connected when on the move (for occasional use only)? I thought something along the lines of a Pay-A-You-Go phone and a 56K modem. Do any PAYG phones for example have a line out that would allow connection to a modem? I believe there are a few ISPs around that provide a dialup connection using a local rate number, which costs around 1p a minute.

T-Mobile do Web-n-Walk, I think its £12.99 pcm and gets good reviews.

[TimberWolf]

I’ve just been looking at their £10/month Broadband Lite package, and it seems pretty good considering it’s about half the price of my fixed landline and ISP costs. But I can’t figure out from their site whether the broadband package is a modem only, or whether a mobile phone comes with it too?

[TheFaQQer]

Thanks for the info. Do you get unlimited connection time with that £15/month package?

Just to elaborate, I realise their are download limits, but I wondered whether there are limits on the time connected too?

No limit on connection time. 3GB download limit, but I don't think that most people will hit that - just means you spend less time "downloading" over the connection.

[TimberWolf]

Thanks for the info. Do you get unlimited connection time with that £15/month package?

Just to elaborate, I realise their are download limits, but I wondered whether there are limits on the time connected too?

[TheFaQQer]

On a related note. What’s the cheapest way to get Internet connected when on the move (for occasional use only)? I thought something along the lines of a Pay-A-You-Go phone and a 56K modem. Do any PAYG phones for example have a line out that would allow connection to a modem? I believe there are a few ISPs around that provide a dialup connection using a local rate number, which costs around 1p a minute.

Three do £5 a month for an add-on to their phone service, which you can use. You're not meant to, but you can.

They also do a PAYG 3G USB modem - not sure of the price, though. I pay £15 a month for mine for 3GB downloads.

[TimberWolf]

Mobile Internet access

On a related note. What’s the cheapest way to get Internet connected when on the move (for occasional use only)? I thought something along the lines of a Pay-A-You-Go phone and a 56K modem. Do any PAYG phones for example have a line out that would allow connection to a modem? I believe there are a few ISPs around that provide a dialup connection using a local rate number, which costs around 1p a minute.

[Clippy]

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