Best mobile broadband

JonSnuuu

Hey I'm living in Corrib and the internet for the most part is alright but it can stop working for hours at a time occasionally, so i want to get mobile broadband! i was just wondering whats the best mobile broadband i can get that will work in Corrib?

thanks

pinkygal

johnt91 wrote: »

Hey I'm living in Corrib and the internet for the most part is alright but it can stop working for hours at a time occasionally, so i want to get mobile broadband! i was just wondering whats the best mobile broadband i can get that will work in Corrib?

thanks

All of them work. O2 are doing a student offer for e9.99 a month for the first 12 months www.o2.ie/student I think this is the link.

Sianery

Yeah it'd be well worth going for the O2 student offer! Corrib internet is so incredibly slow and can be very iffy. I have the O2 broadband and have had no problems at all It's €20 for the dongle, then a tenner a month... can't go wrong!

brianthebard

Sianery wrote: »

can't go wrong!

unless you go over the limit!

price wise o2 are a good deal but they are complete dicks to deal with when you have a problem, so keep that in mind and make sure to track your usage so you don't go over, that option is on the website but you have to search for it.

RolandIRL

i'm on o2 bb and the coverage is good in galway. only once or twice it's happened that i couldn't use it though that was a fault on o2's part. as brian says, be wary of your usage - check with this link: https://www.o2online.ie/NASApp/MyAccount/PostpaidUnbilledInclusiveUnitsServlet.htm - and be sure not to download anything big. you'd be surprised at how fast you can go through it. use the college computers/wifi if you're downloading anything big or regularly watching youtube vids. buy a flash drive and use that for downloading anything large (>200MB) on a regular basis

EDIT: just looking at the link above, don't go expecting 7mbps speeds from it. when i'm back in galway, i'll do a speedtest and post it up though it's only about 1mbps. downloading off some sites, i can get up to 600/700 kbps, on the HSDPA network. if you're in a slow region (as i am in rural sligo), you'll be on the EDGE server, 20/30 kbps speeds is about the best you'll get.

there is other providers out there but i think they're all dearer than €10.00 a month.

QueenOfLeon

If you get O2 broadband, something that caught me out...the usage reader on the programme resets on the first of every month BUT your usage is calculated monthly from the day you bought it. I bought mine on the 15th, so my 10GB limit went from the 15th of September for example til the 15th of October, but I thought it just went from the 1st to the 1st. One of the months I was waiting til the month was over to download something, which I did in the first week, and ended up going over the limit and being charged A LOT

So if you're going to get it I'd say buy it around the first of October, save all the confusion :P

Sianery

brianthebard wrote: »

they are complete dicks to deal with when you have a problem

I agree with them being dicks in the O2 stores in town, but they all seem a lot more capable in the one on Headford Road, in Tesco shopping centre!

brianthebard

I meant the customer service centre in Dublin or whatever but thanks for the heads up, some shops are definitely easier to deal with than others.

ethernet

The software for tracking usage with O2 is seriously dodge. If you do get it (it is a pretty decent offer), be sure to check usage on the website. Also got stung with a nasty bill because of a nice delay in the usage stats on the website. Just need to be careful.

Foxx92

Meteor have a student offer for 9.99 a month with no fee for the modem. Any opinions of their coverage?

RolandIRL

Sianery wrote: »

I agree with them being dicks in the O2 stores in town, but they all seem a lot more capable in the one on Headford Road, in Tesco shopping centre!

brianthebard wrote: »

I meant the customer service centre in Dublin or whatever but thanks for the heads up, some shops are definitely easier to deal with than others.

it really depends on who you get. my friend recently got the bb in o2 at the top of eyre square, and the assistant was really nice. i haven't found the customer service people too bad. the girl on the phone was really helpful. it all depends on who you get, i suppose

QueenOfLeon wrote: »

If you get O2 broadband, something that caught me out...the usage reader on the programme resets on the first of every month BUT your usage is calculated monthly from the day you bought it. I bought mine on the 15th, so my 10GB limit went from the 15th of September for example til the 15th of October, but I thought it just went from the 1st to the 1st. One of the months I was waiting til the month was over to download something, which I did in the first week, and ended up going over the limit and being charged A LOT

So if you're going to get it I'd say buy it around the first of October, save all the confusion :P

i thought it said your dates are the top of the usage allowance but do keep track of your usage. it does take a few hours to update the usage online. don't use the tracker in the software itself. doesn't do it too good, and i found discrepancies from the software usage and the online usage but trust the online one. it is accurate enough. though at the start of your month, (eg 15th october) it does take a day for the 10GB to come through but you can use it when your new month starts and it will track it

hope this helps OP

RolandIRL

My speedtest just there

dvdman1

meteors off is by far the best, if u have a student travel card that is
u can get it for a 10er a month no contract, check it out

Foxx92 wrote: »

Meteor have a student offer for 9.99 a month with no fee for the modem. Any opinions of their coverage?

Foxx92

dvdman1 wrote: »

meteors off is by far the best, if u have a student travel card that is

I got it with just my NUIG ID

RolandIRL

what's the usage allowance with the meteor broadband? probably 5GB is it?

Foxx92

whiteman19 wrote: »

what's the usage allowance with the meteor broadband? probably 5GB is it?

Ten Gig

ciano1

Just got meteor broadband.... Really fast compared to the crappy Gort na Coiribe internet, even at peak times it's great!