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Use mobile broadband to create local network with no interest access?

  • 11-06-2015 06:48PM
    #1
    Branoic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,742 ✭✭✭


    Everybody's nightmare - a week in a self catering holiday home with the family in an area which apparently has no decent phone or internet coverage.

    I was thinking of getting a wifi pay as you go broadband device from someone like Three and hoping that there is coverage, but if not, I was thinking of loading my phone with movies etc and streaming to Chromecast.

    If there is no suitable broadband coverage in an area, can you still use one of those wifi hotspot devices to create a local network to allow this?


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  • #2
    Bogger77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Bogger77


    you'd need a mifi device, but most of them are limited to 5 devices, bring a normal wireless router.


  • #3
    Branoic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,742 ✭✭✭Branoic


    5 device limit shouldn't be a problem as I'd only be connecting 2 or max 3 devices, and I don't have a spare normal wifi router to bring.

    Will this do the job? http://www.three.ie/online/shop/productDetail.aspx?src=p&p=data&pid=2254&tariffType=prepay

    also, if you use the above to only create a local network for your own devices to communicate to each other, do you still need to pay / top up to have an active broadband plan, even if you're not actually using the broadband connection?


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