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A good Mobile broadband provider?

  • 06-10-2010 11:44am
    #1
    jackthelad321
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭


    Hi

    My girlfriend wants to get the Internet, and as she may be moving soon a plug-in one would be best.

    For 20 euro a month, I seem to be able to get a 15gb download limit, and 6 hours daily usage (with 3). Other companies have similar offers.

    Would watching streaming TV eat into the limit? Also, if we leave a webpage on for a while (over 6 hours) do we get charged? I am clueless baout all this. I thought the days of being charged for downloading were over.

    the guy on the phone said that if you were streaming from a page that should use none of your limit, but from reading others that would appear to be a falsehood. Or is it only woth HD TV?

    Does anyone have any good tips for me, we are in Galway City. My friends use meteor in Dublin and get billed unbelievable amounts (over 200 sometimes) for exceeding their limit and they swear they just stream stuff a lot and do a fair bit of downloading. Ok they do download a lot of stuff. But still...

    JAK


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  • #2
    bealtine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭bealtine


    jackthelad321 wrote: »
    Hi

    My girlfriend wants to get the Internet, and as she may be moving soon a plug-in one would be best.

    For 20 euro a month, I seem to be able to get a 15gb download limit, and 6 hours daily usage (with 3). Other companies have similar offers.

    Would watching streaming TV eat into the limit? Also, if we leave a webpage on for a while (over 6 hours) do we get charged? I am clueless baout all this. I thought the days of being charged for downloading were over.

    the guy on the phone said that if you were streaming from a page that should use none of your limit, but from reading others that would appear to be a falsehood. Or is it only woth HD TV?

    Does anyone have any good tips for me, we are in Galway City. My friends use meteor in Dublin and get billed unbelievable amounts (over 200 sometimes) for exceeding their limit and they swear they just stream stuff a lot and do a fair bit of downloading. Ok they do download a lot of stuff. But still...

    JAK

    Short answer NO such thing


  • #3
    theteal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    jackthelad321 wrote: »
    Hi

    My girlfriend wants to get the Internet, and as she may be moving soon a plug-in one would be best.

    For 20 euro a month, I seem to be able to get a 15gb download limit, and 6 hours daily usage (with 3). Other companies have similar offers.

    Would watching streaming TV eat into the limit? Also, if we leave a webpage on for a while (over 6 hours) do we get charged? I am clueless baout all this. I thought the days of being charged for downloading were over.

    the guy on the phone said that if you were streaming from a page that should use none of your limit, but from reading others that would appear to be a falsehood. Or is it only woth HD TV?

    Does anyone have any good tips for me, we are in Galway City. My friends use meteor in Dublin and get billed unbelievable amounts (over 200 sometimes) for exceeding their limit and they swear they just stream stuff a lot and do a fair bit of downloading. Ok they do download a lot of stuff. But still...

    JAK

    this will get moved to the midband sub-forum (the guys in here don't recognise mobile broadband as an actual broadband service - in fact Ireland is one of few countries that do. . .different story for a different day)

    my advice, try them all, see which one has the best signal where you're living. midband is not designed to be used for heavy streaming hence your friends are receiving such big bills - there are several different ways to check balance so i really don't understand why this happens

    you won't get charged for leaving a static web page open unless it's actively sending/receiving data


  • #4
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    jackthelad321 wrote: »
    For 20 euro a month, I seem to be able to get a 15gb download limit, and 6 hours daily usage (with 3). Other companies have similar offers.

    I'm not aware of any time limit with Three. The only limit is the cap.
    jackthelad321 wrote: »
    Would watching streaming TV eat into the limit?

    Streaming TV will likely blitz your cap, depending on the quality and how much you watch. Don't do it.
    jackthelad321 wrote: »
    the guy on the phone said that if you were streaming from a page that should use none of your limit

    An absolute and utter lie. Do not ask sales people any questions, they will tell you anything.
    jackthelad321 wrote: »
    Does anyone have any good tips for me, we are in Galway City. My friends use meteor in Dublin and get billed unbelievable amounts (over 200 sometimes) for exceeding their limit and they swear they just stream stuff a lot and do a fair bit of downloading. Ok they do download a lot of stuff. But still...

    If this is a continual thing, then more fool them. The cap is a hard limit for all 4 operators, and they will charge you excessively for breaking it. There is no leeway here.
    theteal wrote: »
    this will get moved to the midband sub-forum (the guys in here don't recognise mobile broadband as an actual broadband service - in fact Ireland is one of few countries that do. . .different story for a different day)

    Indeed, thread moved. The government and Comreg count mobile "broadband" in it's statistics, even though the OECD and pretty much no other country or body in the world does. The term midband was coined here as it more accurately describes the technology. It hasn't really caught on anywhere else, but I don't think that mobile midband is marketed as a real broadband alternative anywhere else.
    theteal wrote: »
    my advice, try them all, see which one has the best signal where you're living.

    That's the only way to know, as performance varies greatly from one person to the next, and one location to another.

    As a rough guide, start with Meteor, then Vodafone, then Three and finally O2.
    theteal wrote: »
    midband is not designed to be used for heavy streaming hence your friends are receiving such big bills - there are several different ways to check balance so i really don't understand why this happens

    Some people don't bother to check, or to even think about it. Most people don't read what they're buying, and will have no idea that there's even a cap in place. More again won't understand that everything you look at or listen to online counts toward your "download" allowance.


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