Best broadband dongle to get?

lecker Hendl

I've disconnected with Eircom as I'm moving apartment so I'm looking to get a broadband dongle in the meantime. I'd be looking to spend around €20 max a month. Would anyone have any recommendations? I'm in Dublin City so coverage shouldn't be a problem I'd imagine.

jor el

It's not broadband, coverage is not the only concern and urban areas are among the worst congested. No recommendation can be relied upon as individual experiences will always vary.

They're all priced the same too, so that's not going to be a factor. It shouldn't be a deciding factor anyway, you should find one that works, not one that you can afford.

Amalgam

I would go with Meteor, they have a €20 deal, but you have to enter into a contract and DD with them. 15GB a month.

There's some catch where there's a risk of rolling over your limit and being charged extra charges.. I asked is there not a mechanism, like the prepay, for an automatic stop, no.. apparently. Something to be aware of.

Amalgam

EDIT:

18 months contract, 20GB a month.

Pricing chart.

http://www.meteor.ie/mobile_broadband/bp/#pricing-tab

This is the plan (below) with the risk of roll over charges.. I find it a bit fishy.. is there not a legal requirement to warn a customer?

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Broadband Lite
30 day contract SIM only

lecker Hendl

I was in at meteor today and he told me you could get a pre pay deal for €20 a month and opt out at anytime. They'll be looking for the sale so would probably skip the negatives. They allow a day trial so I might check it out.

thundercatho

I have an 18 month contract with 02 for 13.99 with a 15GB download limit... If you control check your limits one a week you should be fine.... Stay away from the Prepay dongles with meteor... Terrible trouble with loading credit for the mother inlaw.... Dad alos has the vodafone dongle which I find slow in the dubin area but personally I prefer 02...

Amalgam

thundercatho, that sounds good, was it a typo or a special offer? I can't seem to find a price that low on their site (€13.99).

thundercatho

I availed of it last year.... asked me to extend by 18 months and they said they could offer me this.... Think they are offereing good deals as I was contacted last week with regarding extending for anothere 18 months and avail of a futher 10% on phone & broadband... Give sales a call and see what they offer you.... Wouldnt even be on a high price plan... Phone and broadband costs me around 50-60 a month total which im very happy with....

ingen

lecker Hendl wrote: »

I've disconnected with Eircom as I'm moving apartment so I'm looking to get a broadband dongle in the meantime. I'd be looking to spend around €20 max a month. Would anyone have any recommendations? I'm in Dublin City so coverage shouldn't be a problem I'd imagine.

word of advice, sign up to a 30 day contract if possible, that way if it turns out crap after a few months, you are only tied into a 30 day contract.

i have tested a lot of modems, the k4505A, K3575, R202, B260A , compass 888, e585 huawei, so far, in my location three has the best signal, and works far better than the rest.

the b260A modem, and the R202 are good modems i find they work better than any usb stick modem.

it all depends on the location that you are going to use it in, and it can be very variable too, in terms of speed and actually working.

jay93

thundercatho wrote: »

I have an 18 month contract with 02 for 13.99 with a 15GB download limit... If you control check your limits one a week you should be fine.... Stay away from the Prepay dongles with meteor... Terrible trouble with loading credit for the mother inlaw.... Dad alos has the vodafone dongle which I find slow in the dubin area but personally I prefer 02...

I have a meteor pre pay account and have not had any issues at all loading credit onto it.
Meteor much faster than other network ive tried once you have a 3G signal with meteor its great much faster than o2 as o2 seems to be the most congested network at the mo imo

lecker Hendl

I actually went with the meteor pay as you go. It's not bad at all.

sdanseo

i realy wish people would stop being so pedantic about broadband/midband etc. It's annoying, not everyone is a tech head like some of us are. I'd always call it mobile bb.

O2 have an offer at the moment, on prepay top up by €40 (for 2 months use) and get the dongle for free.

Or if you have an existing phone with them its €16.99 for billpay 15gb or €10 a month if youre a student for 10GB.

jor el

sdonn wrote: »

t's annoying, not everyone is a tech head like some of us are. I'd always call it mobile bb.

And it never hurts to let those people know that they are not getting broadband. Lots of people get it in the expectation that it will be exactly like real broadband, only to find out that it's not, and wonder why that is?

If they understood what it was, then they wouldn't put up with nonsense from the sales/support people about cleaning the SIM card, or other stupid excuses that are often peddled by the network operators.

watty

sdonn wrote: »

i realy wish people would stop being so pedantic about broadband/midband etc. It's annoying, not everyone is a tech head like some of us are. I'd always call it mobile bb.

It's not pedantic. You don't call a Chicken fillet "Beef steak".

It's Mobile Internet. It's not at all like Broadband. It's a form of fast dialup.

You can be "humpty dumpty" if you like. But what need in this country is some honesty in Marketing and Advertising. It's not being Pedantic but try to protect people from being cheated and making the term "Broadband" meaningless.

Internet Access and Broadband are separate things. Broadband doesn't even have to be used to connect to Internet.

http://www.techtir.ie/forums/internet-faq

It's simply stupid to call everything that isn't analogue dialup "Broadband".

William Powell

watty wrote: »

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It's Mobile Internet. It's not at all like Broadband. It's a form of fast dialup.

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I often wondered if the variously named versions of the connection software are named to stop people realising they are actually a using Dial Up Networking connection (if using Windows) to connect.

lecker Hendl

When I started the thread I knew I wouldn't be getting super high speeds but if it's not broadband, why do they call it broadband on the site https://store.meteor.ie/broadband/stick#what-you-get-tab

Is this not false advertising?