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You can use a physical SIM. I honestly think it's great for those who don't have the flexibility.

The prices are pretty decent if you're not a heavy phone user but you need data backup.
BNE's esim profile for Europe will install on a 5ber sim and I presume also the esim.me one but I don't have one of those to test with.

You can get physical sims form BNE, but their rates are worse.

BNE doesn't do 5G as far as I can tell, in the UK the data seems to either egress from OVH in the UK an Equinix IP range in Italy/Spain depending on which network you land on.

Rather annoyingly on iphone it says BNE instead of the underlaying network so unless you've manually selected it you probably don't know which one you are on out of O2/3/EE
 
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BNE's esim profile for Europe will install on a 5ber sim and I presume also the esim.me one but I don't have one of those to test with.

You can get physical sims form BNE, but their rates are worse.

BNE doesn't do 5G as far as I can tell, in the UK the data seems to either egress from OVH in the UK an Equinix IP range in Italy/Spain depending on which network you land on.

Rather annoyingly on iphone it says BNE instead of the underlaying network so unless you've manually selected it you probably don't know which one you are on out of O2/3/EE
I'm lucky that Pixel devices tend to actually show the network from what I've seen so far.

I know you could just install it on those eSIM things but £15 or so is a bit of an investment for a product which can be finicky afaik. Wasn't aware BNE did physical SIMs.

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@meritez saw your comment lol, Spusu really needs to sort out the short code issue
 
I'm lucky that Pixel devices tend to actually show the network from what I've seen so far.

I know you could just install it on those eSIM things but £15 or so is a bit of an investment for a product which can be finicky afaik. Wasn't aware BNE did physical SIMs.

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@meritez saw your comment lol, Spusu really needs to sort out the short code issue
They do, but ironically they cost more to get than the 5ber SIMs do, also the price plan isn't as good on the physical SIMs.

Not sure if they show up in the app I think it depends which one you have (They have 2 different apps on iOS) - https://www.bnesim.com does however offer them.
 
They do, but ironically they cost more to get than the 5ber SIMs do, also the price plan isn't as good on the physical SIMs.

Not sure if they show up in the app I think it depends which one you have (They have 2 different apps on iOS) - https://www.bnesim.com does however offer them.

I just ordered a 5ber $12 eSim card and even though it takes 2 weeks to arrive they don't charge for shipping. Its miles cheaper than esim.me !
 
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I just ordered a 5ber $12 eSim card and even though it takes 2 weeks to arrive they don't charge for shipping. Its miles cheaper than esim.me !
I had one that arrived pretty quickly and a 2nd one that took just over 2 weeks, so I wouldn't take that 2 weeks as definitive
 
I tried the RWG multi-network SIM and have already cancelled the subscription. BNESIM is much better and cheaper.

I’m probably heading to the same result.
 
I’m probably heading to the same result.

As their CS is as responsive as Seeek, I've cancelled and closed my account with them, at least you can do it online yourself!

Someone was supposed to call me back this week and didn't, when you call you're stuck on hold for 6 minutes and then cut off.

Still none the wiser how to check my remaining data and they should have called me back with the APN details but didn't.
 
Moving house at the end of the month and I am going to be without a decent internet connection for around 10-12 days so looking at a 4/5G solution.

A colleague is kindly lending me a Zyxel NR5103E but unfortunately the Three signal doesn’t look great - but EE 4G looks good.

What are the 30 day EE/MVNO unlimited sim options?

Do Lyca still have poor routing / latency?

I need 2-300gb I would have thought. Can you use a 1P Mobile sim in a router?

Is RWG worth looking at?
 
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Moving house at the end of the month and I am going to be without a decent internet connection for around 10-12 days so looking at a 4/5G solution.

A colleague is kindly lending me a Zyxel NR5103E but unfortunately the Three signal doesn’t look great - but EE 4G looks good.

What are the 30 day EE/MVNO unlimited sim options?

Do Lyca still have poor routing / latency?

I need 2-300gb I would have thought. Can you use a 1P Mobile sim in a router?

Is RWG worth looking at?
1p on their website states that their SIMs are fine in a router.

Someone found 500GB for £25 as an offer not displayed on the website earlier iirc

 
1p on their website states that their SIMs are fine in a router.

Someone found 500GB for £25 as an offer not displayed on the website earlier iirc

Oh that’s a great find! That’ll do nicely!
 
I tried RWG a couple of years ago. Had nothing but problems. Kept losing service and had to keep emailing them then they’d do something and I’d get service back. After a few times I gave up and ported out.
 
I tried RWG a couple of years ago. Had nothing but problems. Kept losing service and had to keep emailing them then they’d do something and I’d get service back. After a few times I gave up and ported out.
They have been solid since November for me. One slight blip but that was an RWG wide issue.
 
They have been solid since November for me. One slight blip but that was an RWG wide issue.

Same here, I have two RWG sims, one on the original free for life and one on the £1 a month, both get 100min/texts and 750MB iirc.

Have had no issues in all the time I have had them and have always had prompt email replies to queries.
 
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Moving house at the end of the month and I am going to be without a decent internet connection for around 10-12 days so looking at a 4/5G solution.

A colleague is kindly lending me a Zyxel NR5103E but unfortunately the Three signal doesn’t look great - but EE 4G looks good.

What are the 30 day EE/MVNO unlimited sim options?

Do Lyca still have poor routing / latency?

I need 2-300gb I would have thought. Can you use a 1P Mobile sim in a router?

Is RWG worth looking at?
Also, EE via scancom have some good prepaid offers: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unlimited-Data-Sim-Card-Business-Grade/dp/B0D14SYZRJ/

Never bought through Scancom, but others on forum had good experiences.

Edit: For 1 month contracts, your best options are:

Talkhome 100GB £7.99: https://talkhome.co.uk/dashboard/or...p=true&plan=189&plantype=payg&planamount=7.99

UW mobile "Unlimited+" £23

EE unlimited data, calls and texts: £24.5 with 100 Mbps speed cap, £26.50 with no speed cap. To get this, you order an EE PAYG SIM which gives you 30% customer discount. You might also be able to get an additional 30% off with a student discount code.

1p mobile £25 for 500GB (probably the best customer service)
 
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Also, EE via scancom have some good prepaid offers: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unlimited-Data-Sim-Card-Business-Grade/dp/B0D14SYZRJ/

Never bought through Scancom, but others on forum had good experiences.

Edit: For 1 month contracts, your best options are:

Talkhome 100GB £7.99: https://talkhome.co.uk/dashboard/or...p=true&plan=189&plantype=payg&planamount=7.99

UW mobile "Unlimited+" £23

EE unlimited data, calls and texts: £24.5 with 100 Mbps speed cap, £26.50 with no speed cap. To get this, you order an EE PAYG SIM which gives you 30% customer discount. You might also be able to get an additional 30% off with a student discount code.

1p mobile £25 for 500GB (probably the best customer service)
Great post, very informative.

Having used 1P in the past, I have gone with them again.
 
RWG's phone line is currently dead.
 
Just a note:

RWG Multi Network SIM identifies itself as Tele2 IOT

On first use it appeared to work OK, first selecting THREE 5G and then Vodafone 4G.
However after that it appeared to lock to O2 even when it wasn't the strongest signal.

Yesterday I made a Journey from Crawley, West Sussex to Newbury, Berkshire. The SIM did not budge from O2 (dropping to 3G often on 900) despite very good Vodafone and EE 4G/5G during the journey (on main Motorways and separate phones/SIM).

On the way back (across country) I therefore tried restarts and power down. It still returned to O2. I was however able to set the network selection to manual and use all networks fine but this wasn't the behaviour I really wanted from the SIM.

So its a good backup SIM for the remote car park issue but paying a monthly allowance (especially RWG) it could end up expensive and not provide sufficient data allowance at the actual time its needed.

If I do get another Multi Network I will probably buy one with a "use in 12 months" data allowance. I'd be interested if anyone has tested the behaviour on those specifically advertised as "strongest signal".

For me now its back to my Multi SIM solutions
 
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