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Hi

I have a couple of questions with regards to 4G mobile wifi devices, I wonder if anyone can help me?
1) If I get a 4G wifi device, such as the 2 offered by EE, would I be able to use a sim card from each IPS provider on the device to determine who would give the stongest signal in my area?
2) If I connect a non 4G ready device such as an I-Phone 4, would I still get 4G speeds, through the dongle?

Many thanks.
 
1) The Vodafone dongle I have only works with Vodafone SIM cards so to be safe a better solution would be for you to buy the dongle (USB modem) separate from a mobile operator (e.g. Amazon). The only downside is that you might have to hunt around to find the right connection details for the operators you want to use it with, which I've sometimes found to be easier said than done due to the variety of different APN settings, contracts and platforms for each.

2) Assuming you're connecting the iPhone4 via WiFi to your 4G enabled wifi dongle/router/modem device then yes it would get 4G speeds because the modem is doing all the leg work and the WiFi is merely distributing the signal locally. However you would have to stay within wifi range to benefit.
 
Hi Mark

Thank you for these answers, that's interesting about the SIM cards, I would have assumed the devices would work with any SIM card, I'm glad I checked first before buying. Not that I can get 4G anyway but hopefully it won't be too far away.
 
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My mobile has 4G the sim card is very small in comparison to normal sim cards. I can no longer share the sim between my last two phones... The older phone is only 3G the new 4G same Make Samsung but one is the ace the other S4 mini.
 
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