3 Unlimited Broadband any good?

Balanadan

€30 per month for 18 months, unlimited data. On the surface it looks alright.

_Brian

Only if your in an area where three broadband has strong signal.

If your area is any way marginal it’s no good, constant outage, affected by weather, suffers from congestion.

It was our only option here for a while and it was pure torture, the help centre in India is really hard to deal with, polite people but zero knowledge - just reading from a script.

Balanadan

_Brian wrote: »

Only if your in an area where three broadband has strong signal.

If your area is any way marginal it’s no good, constant outage, affected by weather, suffers from congestion.

It was our only option here for a while and it was pure torture, the help centre in India is really hard to deal with, polite people but zero knowledge - just reading from a script.

I'd say the signal would be decent here.

I'm not sure what other provider to consider. Eir have done nothing to retain my business, computer said no, Virgin isn't available in my area, I didn't have a good experience with Sky web chat. Could look at Pure.

Is there much of a difference between the different modems? https://www.three.ie/online/data/contract/

lawred2

Decent signal is no guarantee of anything. Could be congested.

I've only had poor experiences with mobile broadband

Ten Pin

Try a 3 PAYG phone SIM for 20 euro per 28 days for unlimited data. The 30 euro broadband is limited (despite 3 calling it unlimited) at 750GB, 6.15c per MB over the limit.

You'd need your own modem with the phone SIM but that's the only advantage of the 30 euro plan which includes the modem, but only on the 18 month contract.

https://m.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=108825250

august12

I have this for month now, am really happy with it, had checked through a family member with three mobile service to see what signal was like before I signed up, I am on the 750GB 30 day contract, not the 18 month as per your original post, I have my own modem, a TP link with my phone service coming through it as it has a VoIP connection, it is usable, this is about the best service of all I've tried and I have tried quite a few in my area from wired to satellite to all the different mobile providers, I now can finally use Netflix which was impossible with any of the others as I was either limited with download allowance or download speed, three so far has passed these hurdles. Sign up for a month or check with someone you know on three to see what signal is like.

dfarrelly96

I have been on Three mobile broadband for many years, when I first got it I was happy, got speeds of around 20Mb down, however, the past few years have been absolutely atrocious, speeds of less than 1Mb most of the time. Countless talks with three to see if anything could be done but to no avail. The worst part is, my neighbor who is literally 100m away can get Gigabit broadband, but Eir tell me I can't even get any broadband at all Ridiculous.

Ultimanemo

Whatever you do don't commit yourself to 18 month contract, I am using Three for 3 or 4 years as I have no other options, It was good, now with high contention it is slow, It could be good in your area but you never know, when more people in your area start using it will be very slow down to 1 to 2 mbps, I wake up 4 am to update my satnav.