So our ASDL connection has been flakey for years, every summer without fail a hedgecutter goes through the line (Thanks Openreach for putting the previously repaired line into the hedge, rather than hanging it back on the poles....) or water gets into a junction box etc etc, enough is enough. I think the time has come to have a go with 4G, given "unlimited" data contracts are now pretty close to £20 a month. Our monthly data consumption is probably well under 50GB, so we won't have any issues there. The main requirement really would be a rock steady 5 down, anything above that would really be a bonus. So how do you think my chances are of beating a flakey 5 down ASDL connection? We are 3.5 km from our nearest tower, offering T Mobile or 3. I have ordered a 3 sim to test the signal round the house. On most of the major networks we generally get 2 or 3 bars in certain spots around the house, most of the house 1 or nothing....
My parents were in a similar boat. However I randomly checked the BT availability checker and it actually had 150Mb superfast available to them. I made them upgrade from the very unstable 5Mb they had before. Just double check if you haven't recently??
My adsl is reasoanbly reliable but slow so I went with a SMARTY unlimited sim for £18.75 a month and a third hand router from the marketplace here. I'm in a valley and not close to the mast so I can get 29MB down but sometimes it drops to 1.5. Uploads are always better on the 4g - but the adsl is rubbish (or "poo" as the BT engineer helpfully described it!). I may get better results with a different router or external aerial (or both). It's worth just having the seond line for software and game updates as it's fast more often than not! The smarty option is a good one as it is a rolling one month contract so if it doesn't work out you haven't lost much!
Mum lives somewhere reasonably remote. The TV signal is chit and the broadband awful. Eventually sky fibre arrived @£53 a month for about 20mb but the only other option was 4mb copper which is useless for streaming and had s 60gb cap. So she paid out the ass. Recently talktalk got theirs in and for £42 a month she gets 50mb down fibre and s you view recorder with 15 extra channels. Which is ace, cause she needed a new PVR any way.
