€15 - 20GB + Unlimited any network calls and texts + free roaming - Lycamobile

rustledjimmies

chin nuts wrote: »

I'm with three at the minute and the coverage is brutal in my area. Phone keeps going into roaming mode so I can't access the Internet on it. But at least I can get through to their customer care team.

You do know Lycamobile are just piggybacking on the Three network, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycamobile#Coverage

If Three is brutal in your area then so will Lycamobile.

Allyall

I got ported earlier.
I haven't received any data settings, and data doesn't seem to work, so I assume it's manual settings.
Not really a problem.
I also couldn't log back in to the site, and I never received any sort of confirmation, email, text or otherwise that they have acknowledged me porting over and registering.
But I could top up without needing to.

In short, I think this provider is literally topup and go.

Which is fine, but for anyone signing up it's probably best to be aware that they can offer the service for the price by obviously cutting back on any support. Again, that's not an issue, but could have saved me a bit of annoyance if I had known before I started trying to port over to them.

blade1

Allyall wrote: »

I got ported earlier.
I haven't received any data settings, and data doesn't seem to work, so I assume it's manual settings.
Not really a problem.

Web settings

APN: data.lycamobile.ie

Username: lmie

Password: plus

nicolaed1

blade1 wrote: »

Web settings

APN: data.lycamobile.ie

Username: lm.ie

Password: plus

Username: lm.ie

mistake-lmie

blade1

nicolaed1 wrote: »

Username: lm.ie

mistake-lmie

Fixed!;)

nicolaed1

the worst customer care, bad internet (very slow etc.). Avoid

laneooo

nicolaed1 wrote: »

the worst customer care, bad internet (very slow etc.). Avoid

Yeah i second that +1

air

cormie wrote: »

I know with vodafone, there was two APN's, one for tethering and one for regular internet from the phone. If you delete the one for tethering, then when you tether, they other one is used and it wasn't possible for them to tell the difference between the usage

Anyone tethering on lyca without issues?

Zynks

I ordered the sim card last week but only got to installing a few minutes ago. First impressions:
- signal same strength as Meteor ( Blackrock, Dublin)
- after I paid for credit (€15 bundle) on their website, the sim was active for calls in seconds. Not bad.
- speed test. I am getting HSDPA, 15/2.5 Mbps on first test, 9/2.5 on second. 66ms ping. I am perfectly happy with that.
- to get APN setup is a minor annoyance, even when set, it takes a bit of restarting and activating, but still took less than 10 minutes.

So far it looks like really good value. Pity for the tethering, it is almost a deal breaker for me, let's see how badly I'll miss it.

Has anyone tried Chromecasting? If BBC iPlayer works, that could be a sweet combination.

Thanks OP for a great BA!

Murilotdb

air wrote: »

Anyone tethering on lyca without issues?

I installed the app Foxfi and activated tethering via USB then I downloaded a Pdanet desktop program to my windows laptop and used it to connect to my phone. It works quite well!

air

Murilotdb wrote: »

I installed the app Foxfi and activated tethering via USB then I downloaded a Pdanet desktop program to my windows laptop and used it to connect to my phone. It works quite well!

Does your phone not support tethering as standard or is there something about FoxFi which helps hide the fact that the traffic is from tethering?

Murilotdb

air wrote: »

Does your phone not support tethering as standard or is there something about FoxFi which helps hide the fact that the traffic is from tethering?

My phone supports tethering without foxfi. However, I believe tethering is blocked by Lyca. I used Foxfi to bypass this blockage.

cormie

How do they know it's tethering? Did anyone see my post about VF tethering above and them not being able to detect tethering by deleting one of the APN's? Would the same work here?

air

cormie wrote: »

How do they know it's tethering? Did anyone see my post about VF tethering above and them not being able to detect tethering by deleting one of the APN's? Would the same work here?

If they filter the traffic (regardless of the APN) they can look at a number of different characteristics of the traffic to determine if originates from a non mobile device.
From simple things like the browser type being used (desktop browser = probably tethering), to the TTL of the packets generated by the user (will be decremented by 1 hop due to the link between device and tethered phone) and on to further more complex analysis if they want to put in the effort.

Fred Swanson

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2012paddy2012

Murilotdb wrote: »

I installed the app Foxfi and activated tethering via USB then I downloaded a Pdanet desktop program to my windows laptop and used it to connect to my phone. It works quite well!

Can I pm u ?!

54and56

Hi all,

I'm in a spot of bother. I switched my wife and son over to this Lycamobile deal and all is working grand at home. We go to France on holiday every year so I purchased the 10 30 day "Europe Plus" International Bundle thinking that would allow them to make 300 minutes of call and use up to 3GB of data whilst in France but it's only for use within Ireland!!! I couldn't get my head around how an "International" bundle called "Europe Plus" with 3GB of data can only be used in Ireland but the Lycamobile helpline explained the 300 minutes are calls to European locations from Ireland not for roaming. I know have two pi$$ed off family members on holiday and I can't find any bundles on Lycamobile which will allow them to have some roaming data here.

Any suggestions which don't involve getting them local French sims for the duration of the holiday???

Trish56

You need to purchase the Ireland Plus deal for €15 as per the OP's first post on here.

DopeTech

Here's the list of all bundles you can roam for free on.

http://www.lycamobile.ie/en/roaming-sim-card

blade1

Trish56 wrote: »

You need to purchase the Ireland Plus deal for €15 as per the OP's first post on here.

FrostyJim wrote: »

Here's the list of all bundles you can roam for free on.

http://www.lycamobile.ie/en/roaming-sim-card

Is the free roaming only calls and texts?

Allyall

blade1 wrote: »

Is the free roaming only calls and texts?

Good point...

Can I use my data allowance in the 18 countries? If not how will I be charged? You unfortunately will not be able to use your existing data allowance, instead you will need to buy a relevant data add-on in order to use your mobile data.

You would need to buy International bundles from here - http://www.lycamobile.ie/en/choosebundles?Topup=0&Bonus=&Page=QuickTopUp

€10
/30 Days
Europe Plus


300 International & National Mins

3 GB National Data

They're cheap enough though.

blade1

Allyall wrote: »

Good point...

Yep, and the poster in France looking for data will have the pleasure of paying €55 for 1gb.:o

Allyall

blade1 wrote: »

Yep, and the poster in France looking for data will have the pleasure of paying €55 for 1gb.:o

Unless they get the Europe Plus.

It's quite good, but 3GB isn't a heck of a lot.
There's an Italian SIM you can buy in most Countries in Europe, that gives unlimited data and roaming for feck all.
I can't remember the name of them now though.

2012paddy2012

Is there anyway of knowing how much data you use as you go along with LYCA

rustledjimmies

2012paddy2012 wrote: »

Is there anyway of knowing how much data you use as you go along with LYCA

Your Android phone can keep track of this too - http://www.gottabemobile.com/2015/02/03/how-to-check-data-usage-on-android/

Seems the easiest way.

Allyall

rustledjimmies wrote: »

Your Android phone can keep track of this too - http://www.gottabemobile.com/2015/02/03/how-to-check-data-usage-on-android/

Seems the easiest way.

I use(d) Joiku.
It seems I don't need to now with these.

Tim is the Italian roaming one across Europe. But I think there is a trick to getting it in other Countries. But many sell it in the hat/T-shirt/trinkets shops.

54and56

Allyall wrote: »

blade1 wrote: »

Is the free roaming only calls and texts?

Good point...

Can I use my data allowance in the 18 countries? If not how will I be charged? You unfortunately will not be able to use your existing data allowance, instead you will need to buy a relevant data add-on in order to use your mobile data.

You would need to buy International bundles from here - http://www.lycamobile.ie/en/choosebundles?Topup=0&Bonus=&Page=QuickTopUp

10
/30 Days
Europe Plus


300 International & National Mins

3 GB National Data

They're cheap enough though.

Thats exactly what I purchased thinking that gave me 3GB of data whilst roaming in Europe but it doesn't, it gives you 300 minutes of calls to European countries whilst you are in Ireland and the 3GB of data included in the bundle is only for use in Ireland.

I already have them on the 15 national bundle outlined in the OP so purchased two 10 Europe Plus Top Ups thinking that would allow them to roam in Europe but it doesn't. If you look at the description of the bundle carefully you'll see that the 3GB of data is labelled "National Data" not International Data and thats what the help centre pointed out to me. The 3GB is only for use nationally in Ireland.

It's really ambiguous and misleading so I'm not happy but more importantly I can't see where they sell any bundles which include "international data".

Any suggestions?

54and56

FrostyJim wrote: »

Here's the list of all bundles you can roam for free on.

http://www.lycamobile.ie/en/roaming-sim-card

All of those bundles have data which is limited to "National Data" i.e. you can't use the included data outside Ireland. I'd really appreciate it if someone would double check with Lycamobile just so I'm not losing my mind!!

funnyname

Nice, do you know which is which?

cormie wrote: »

I know with vodafone, there was two APN's, one for tethering and one for regular internet from the phone. If you delete the one for tethering, then when you tether, they other one is used and it wasn't possible for them to tell the difference between the usage

Curb Your Enthusiasm

funnyname wrote: »

Nice, do you know which is which?

I only have one APN showing?