Would 1Gb of mobile broadband suffice

billyhead

Hi,

I would need mobile braodband for about an hour a day for general internet surfing and e-mail (no downloading of video files etc and was wondering over the course of a month do you think a 1Gb limit would suffice in terms of not exceeding it.

padma

Hi Billyhead, if you go to the 3 website and check usage you will find that for 1gb you get 10 hours of browsing, 1000 emails and 32 4 minute sound tracks and 5 (4)minute video clips, taking out the sound tracks and video clips, I would guess that you would be pushing it a bit every month wondering if you are about to exceed your limit, but with careful planning i'd say you could make it. My suggestion would be to fork out the extra tenner for 15 gb as you wouldn't need to worry about anything then. Just a suggestion

etcetc

get yourself an iphone or some sort of smart phone, 40 euro a month gives you phon calls text plus data allowance

most providers will give you 2gb data and then use phone as modem to laptop

techguy

I'm using the Meteor 250MB addon for €5 per month.

I mostly use it for email and google maps with a small amount of browsing.

I only ever use about 150MB max..

I use a HTC Hero.

billyhead

Hi,

Any other feedback on my query would be appreciated. As mentioned I would only need to use the internet for e-mail, general web surfing, buying online etc for about 2 hours a week and i would not be downloading files etc.

techguy

What other kind of feedback do you want. :rolleyes:

foggy_lad

General web surfing can consume a lot more than you night think, with all the sound and video clips in web pages you could easily exceed your limit. 1gb would be ok for smartphones though.

Lucyx

etcetc wrote: »

most providers will give you 2gb data and then use phone as modem to laptop

how do you do this ??? etcetc could you PM me on this pls pls

i'm moving to an area where eircom is the only option and i have 4gb
per month on my iphone so would be great to use this

(sorry for taking over here )

etcetc

go to settings
general
network
turn on internet tethering

connect iphone to laptop and off you go

can connect by usb or bluetooth

techguy

Doesn't the network have to specify that the data can be used for tethering?

If it's not for tethering then the iPhone will tell the network and you will pay by kilobyte/megabyte?

etcetc

vodafone,O2,Three all allow tethering on iphone

i am pretty sure this is the same with other smart phones

watty

Real smart phones they don't know...