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When the contract was up they offered me a new contract @£18/mnt if I signed up for another 12 months, I declinedWell I certainly won't be complaing after 2 years if it stays at £10 odd twocats.
When the contract was up they offered me a new contract @£18/mnt if I signed up for another 12 months, I declinedWell I certainly won't be complaing after 2 years if it stays at £10 odd twocats.
Being a cheapskate, I'd do exactly the same.When the contract was up they offered me a new contract @£18/mnt if I signed up for another 12 months, I declined
Just be aware there are deals to be had with Virgin (if its available in your area Bill), I managed to get a 24 month deal at £22 (with £50 Amazon voucher) for 100Mbps on a compare website.This isn't exactly the right thread to ask this in, but I'm going to anyway as I know folks here have a wealth of pragmatic experience.
A month to go on my Three 24month contract, and I now find they've stopped their 4G Hub deal at £14/month for 24months - the price has now been hiked by £8 to £22/month.
So I've been looking on MoneySuperMarket and realised that you can get SIM only deals for 100Gb+ from 'resellers' such as Mobiles.co.uk for networks like Vodafone, IDMobile etc for £8-20/month depending on exact requirements.
Has anyone any experience of signing up to a deal from the likes of Mobiles.co.uk and just popping say a Vodafone SIM in their B535 or B525 router? Are there 'pitfalls' with these deals I should look out for?
The only difference is the phone sim defaults to three.co.uk APN and the broadband one to 3internet.co.uk APN. (which is better, depends on which data-centre you connect too, if your mast isn't contended.)I presume your £10 deal is actually a 'mobile phone SIM'. Is there any reason why it would be better to use a 'mobile broadband' SIM contract as opposed to 'mobile phone SIM' contract?
Yes, I did think it could be mast related, but I tried both my Three & Vodafone SIM in the B525, neither did 4G+. Then both SIMs in the B535 and they both did 4G+The 525 does 4g+, but it depends on the band's on the mast as the combinations as not as comprehensive as the later routers.
Three have just contacted me to say my price will now go up to £22/mnth as they no longer do the contract i was on for the last 24 Months.Being a cheapskate, I'd do exactly the same.
Tbh you might want to give the ZTE a go as it has better UK band support such as B32 and even B20 than the M1.Three have just contacted me to say my price will now go up to £22/mnth as they no longer do the contract i was on for the last 24 Months.
So I have cancelled it and signed up for the £14/mnth deal, also has £55.25 cashback on Topcashback so works out at £11.70/mnth so not much different.
I also got the ZTE Modem which I wont use as I have a Netgear MR1100
Only band 3 and 20 on my mast at the moment, so just locked to band 3 for the speed, didn't even realise that the M1 didn't support band 20.Tbh you might want to give the ZTE a go as it has better UK band support such as B32 and even B20 than the M1.
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Thank you, that is very helpful. I think congestion is the biggest factor.If speeds are high during the night/early hours and deteriorate through the day and evening then that just sounds like congestion on your mast/area.
The Archer V1 doesn't support B3+B1 aggregation, so assuming that's what you normally aggregate then its no wonder you didn't get 4G+ showing up. It does aggregate B3+B20 and B1+B20, but B20 wont provide much throughput uplift anyway.
Assuming you mean the B535 as the 'old Huawei cat 6 router' and if you're in an area with B32 deployed, you might actually find forcing B20+B32 on it gives more consistent/higher download speeds than B3+B1 - though upload speeds will be low.