EE Reviews

I decided to stick with Orange when I looked for a mobile internet for my laptop.

The cost is good considering I can connect anywhere to their wireless broadband, they have a good display which shows how much you have used when you disconnect.

Second year with this dongle and speeds in same location have become unuseable 34kbps down and 1kbps up.

I have no need for Orange webspace or emails just £15 a month 1.5GB 18month contract.

Easy to setup and connects without problems.
Slow download speed in a strong signal area?
Called support, fobed of with working on mast...lol
Called again after the supposed work was finished. Obviously no change.
Someone knew what they were talking about and told me settings for dongle. Added these then faster than BT home broadband...lol.

I have been using this product for 1 year now. Firstly, unlimited means after you hit 3Gb you would get a letter (now replaced with text message and a webpage when you start browsing) month 3 and they send me another letter saying that unless you stay under 3Gb you will be restricted to a connection speed of 56k between the hours of 4pm and 12 am. but between the hours of 10am and 10pm i cant usually get a connection over 56k any way.

i got this broadband with a free (£20 more a month) laptop. meaning that i have to pay £35 a month not £15, what i effectly get for my money is an internet connection that rivals the one i had in 2000 for speeds, that ran slow all the time but the net wasnt so bandwidth hungry, and you always got your page eventually, now i have to keep refreshing as my computer doesnt realise that im still connected.

T-Mobile use image compression meaning you have to refresh every image you want to see clearly (shift-r/ctrl f5). also this doesnt work at all on facebook

i live in a good signal area, my friend lives in a very good. i get a reasonable connection at my friends, sometimes, others i just cant connect. at home, remember that this is a good according to the website i get 49%... on a good day, the rest of the time its ticking between 0% and 19%, nothing between, back and forth, back and forth (it does nothing while its flicking either)

as a round up, unless you live in a caravan or some other place that doesnt stay still, dont bother with this, get plugged into the wall and get a good speed and unlimited that really is unlimited. if this was acting at best, max speed, no limit, ideal situation type of thing... you would still have a dongle hanging out of your laptop that now and again you will knock and it will disconnect, i have a cable extender on mine (i dont dare put it right into the side of the lappy in case i accidently snap it or something)

get a demo instore to see what the image compression looks like, and then get their new prepay one for a trial (it will allow you to see what you are going to get for the next year and a half, and save you the stress that i have had)

i'd say,
Unlimited = Lie, its 3Gb limit
7.2 connection = never 100-150 connection at best wich in download speeds is around 56k per second

£15/month, free USB-stick/dongle, 18 month contract. 1GB/month cap but no extra cost if you go over, they dont seem all that bothered anyway. Been using it for 3 months.

One of the reasons i chose T-Mobile is because of the free unlimited access to the national Wi-Fi "hot spots" which is great whenever i want to use the internet in some cafe or where ever.

On the T-mobile website they got my home street coverage rating as "Very good" (4 of 5 bars), i live in Stourbridge, West Midlands - a very large built up area, and my next door neighbour is the greenbelt - im on the outskirt of town and still got a decent signal from home.

Ive done some tests from time to time from home, using download test sites and downloading different files - some of them each from different server-websites for faster download to get real results.
On average i get:
download: 60-150KB/sec, thats about 1 to 1.5mb
upload: 40-50KB/sec, thats almost 0.5mb
The maximum official ("upto") download limit im supposed to be able to get is 7.2mb.

For online gamers:
Considering ive only as of yet tested from home which is located quite a bit away from a local phone mast...
Ping times are fine, except for FPS type games.
My cable broadband 50mb - Virgin Media landline has very good ping times, and compared to this mobile broadband its about 20-80ms worse than cable/adsl. Checked on WoW, Everquest 2, Battlefield 2.

Sometimes, the connection will lag worse and worse over a couple/few minutes. Ive found by clicking reconnect, then the lag is gone.

Services 8, would give it a 10 if the network wasnt so congested.
Support 10, not had any need for support other than a billing enquiry at the local shop.
Speed 7, very rarely spiking upto 200kb/sec which is 3ish mb? half of the "theoretical maximum" they advertise.