3G with Three for basic browsing - tolerable?

damnfinecoffee

Hi folks, I am travelling with my cellular iPad to Dublin from the UK. I am with EE which uses Three as a roaming partner in Ireland, but you only get 3G with that. I still have some credit on that EE SIM card I'd prefer to use up.
I haven't heard too many good things about Three's 3G, but will it be enough for basic browsing on-the-go and sat-nav'ing my way around South Dublin County? Or is the difference worth dropping EUR20 on a Meteor 4G SIM card?

leche solara

It will be fine for what you need

Vic_08

damnfinecoffee wrote: »

Hi folks, I am travelling with my cellular iPad to Dublin from the UK. I am with EE which uses Three as a roaming partner in Ireland, but you only get 3G with that. I still have some credit on that EE SIM card I'd prefer to use up.
I haven't heard too many good things about Three's 3G, but will it be enough for basic browsing on-the-go and sat-nav'ing my way around South Dublin County? Or is the difference worth dropping EUR20 on a Meteor 4G SIM card?

I don't know where you are getting that info from but I have an EE payg sim, it connects to both 3 and Meteor but not Vodafone. Also it does work on 4G.

damnfinecoffee

That information comes from the "using your phone abroad" section on the EE website which confirms the unavailability of 4G.
That said I saw an EE community post where someone else said they were able to manually select Meteor and use the 4G service.

damnfinecoffee

I can confirm what Vic_08 said, I'm in Dublin flying on eir and 4G and the coverage is excellent.