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Which mobile broadband?

  • 05-05-2010 08:35AM
    #1
    tomcollins97
    Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭


    I live in County Dublin and I am looking got get broadband into the house but I DO NOT want a contract. I am not interested in coverage in the rest of the country as I won’t be travelling with it. So, I think mobile broadband is the only way to go. Current offers are as follows:

    Meteor:
    Modem: €19.99
    30 Day pass: €19.99
    7.5GB allowance, out of bundle 2c/MB
    7 day no quibble return

    3:
    Modem: €49.99 – 89.99
    30 Day pass: €25
    10GB allowance, out of bundle 49c/MB

    O2:
    Modem: €39.99-59.99
    30 Day pass: €19.90
    5GB allowance, out of bundle 2c/MB

    Vodafone:
    Modem: €39.99
    30 Day pass: €20
    5GB allowance
    7 day no quibble return

    Initial thoughts are that it is between 3 and Meteor. Just wondering what peoples opinions are?

    Which mobile broadband to you reccomend? 2 votes

    Meteor
    0% 0 votes
    3
    50% 1 vote
    Vodafone
    50% 1 vote
    O2
    0% 0 votes


Comments

  • #2
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,461 ✭✭✭✭watty


    It's only intended for mobile use. Not fixed use in a house or office.

    It's just Fast mobile Dialup. Not Broadband.

    O2 and Vodafone are "better" for various defintions of better. Meteor is improving but even their GSM service is poor compared to O2 or Vodafone.

    O2 and Meteor have EDGE fall back (240kbps), Vodafone only has 45 kbps GPRS fallback. 3 is 3G /HSPA only.

    All are no-connection if the sector is full (tens of connections), and 50Kbps to 6Mbps otherwise. Real broadband is always connected, or always connects.

    Latency (ping) is 110ms to 2000ms compared to 10ms to 70ms on real Broadband.

    It's piggybacking on the mobile phone network. Which Network is most reliable for you and your friends at your house?


  • #3
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    tomcollins97 wrote: »
    Initial thoughts are that it is between 3 and Meteor. Just wondering what peoples opinions are?

    Don't base your decision on price or allowance. Base it on availability and reliability. Three will certainly lose in the reliability stakes, in general, but it will all depend on what's actually available at the address, and what works. The only way to know is to try them, at the location, and see what is best.

    Any recommendation here is pretty much a waste of time.


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