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[ynaseem]

Hi All

With the closure of the DR and with me being on the sheffield centre exchange, it looks like i will have to go back to crappy 1-2mb connection.

Before i sign up to a contract with BT, I just want to see, is there likely to be any option for us on the sheffield exchange in the near future to get good speeds? I know we are not in BT's plans.. but is there any other product / technology out there that is available / will be available in the near future?

Appreciate any advice given... Thanks

[clifft]

3 still do sim only deals with unlimited tethering for around £20 p.m. Whilst speeds and throughput will not be stable it will be a darn sight better than 1mb assuming you can get a reasonable signal in doors.

[ynaseem]

Yeah thats the problem, im on 3 with tethering enabled but the signal inside my house is poor, i dont even get 3g never mind 4g

looks like im going to have accept a slow connection, hopefully one day a miracle occurs and BT decide to enable the city centre

[rooneybuk]

From a cost perspective and review xilo.net seem to be well rated for Regular ADSL

[Chalky]

(19-07-2014 01:13 PM)clifft Wrote:  3 still do sim only deals with unlimited tethering for around £20 p.m. Whilst speeds and throughput will not be stable it will be a darn sight better than 1mb assuming you can get a reasonable signal in doors.

Unforuntately, none of Three's new 2014 plans include unlimited tethering anymore. You can only use 2GB if you have a Phone Plan and upto 4GB for SIM-only plans.

[clifft]

This has changed only recently. When I looked about a month ago the phone plans had changed, but not the sim plans. Obviously the Sim plans have caught up. 4 gig goes nowhere.

[Chalky]

My phone is due for renewal soon and if they're insisting on a 2GB limit then I'll have to look elsewhere. I can appreciate that the unlimited model is unsustainable but it should be 10GB at least. I don't use tethering every month, but when I do it's more than 2GB. You can't even stream one film with that. In their blog they reckon 4GB is enough to stream 44 episodes of Game of Thrones.

I don't think so. One of my HD episodes of Game of Thrones is 10GB!

[alexatkin]

(19-07-2014 01:18 PM)ynaseem Wrote:  Yeah thats the problem, im on 3 with tethering enabled but the signal inside my house is poor, i dont even get 3g never mind 4g

looks like im going to have accept a slow connection, hopefully one day a miracle occurs and BT decide to enable the city centre

If you get a dongle you can usually attach an external antenna, might be enough to get a good signal indoors.

[JohnnyS]

(19-07-2014 12:50 PM)ynaseem Wrote:  Hi All

With the closure of the DR and with me being on the sheffield centre exchange, it looks like i will have to go back to crappy 1-2mb connection.

Before i sign up to a contract with BT, I just want to see, is there likely to be any option for us on the sheffield exchange in the near future to get good speeds? I know we are not in BT's plans.. but is there any other product / technology out there that is available / will be available in the near future?

Appreciate any advice given... Thanks

I'm in a similar position (thought not quite as bad as you.) Sheffield centre exchange, but not too far from the centre. I had 8Mb ADSL2 with O2.

Though apparently I can get around 13Mb. Going from 40 to 13 is really going to annoy me, so down to 1-2 would be gutting! Having gone from 512K to 2Mb to 8Mb to 40Mb, I was expecting the next time I changed to be 80Mb or over 100Mb!

I too have thought about the Sim from 3, but as my current Android is only 3g this will mean a new phone £150 ish for a Moto G 4g + £23 a month just to be able to test what 4g speed id get.

[alexatkin]

If you primarily want it for Internet then I would pick a dongle or MiFi over a phone, unless you plan to do most of your Internet use ON the phone. I always found using a phone as a MiFi to be much slower than a proper router.