Anyone Been in this Situation with Broadband?

[BonnieLass]

Originally Posted by Grayfly

I set her up with a dongle modem plugged into a usb charger plug and located it at a window. I installed a Three pre-loaded 500Gb data sim (£19) which should last a few months. However data download is only around 1Mps. A kindly neighbour, who has high speed broadband, gave her a guest access to his system. It wasn't a great success to begin with but I have now added a WiFi extender and she is getting above 10Mps around her flat.

This will have to do until Openreach figure out how to connect the fibre in the street outside to the building.

My little mobile hotspot from Vodafone that sits on the desk beside the pooter and nowhere close to a window is averaging at 175mbs on 4G and is more often than not managing way over 300mbs via 5G with unlimited data. So not bad value for £23 per month really (compared to paying a few quid more for the normal type broadband that only gives 67mbs in this area)

[SimonPaddo]

Originally Posted by BonnieLass

My little mobile hotspot from Vodafone that sits on the desk beside the pooter and nowhere close to a window is averaging at 175mbs on 4G and is more often than not managing way over 300mbs via 5G with unlimited data. So not bad value for £23 per month really (compared to paying a few quid more for the normal type broadband that only gives 67mbs in this area)

300 mbs (milli bits per second) is quite slow 😂

[BonnieLass]

Originally Posted by SimonPaddo

300 mbs (milli bits per second) is quite slow 😂

Well it is better than the 67 average that normal broadband gives in this area...it works, it is faster than most, that is all that matters to me.

[First_Principal]

Originally Posted by SimonPaddo

300 mbs (milli bits per second) is quite slow 😂

Originally Posted by BonnieLass

Well it is better than the 67 average that normal broadband gives in this area...it works, it is faster than most, that is all that matters to me.

Methinks you may have missed SimonPaddo's humour .. in SI prefix symbols m=milli, b=bits whereas I imagine what you actually meant was M (for mega) and B (for bytes, which are 8 bits)? There's quite a difference in throughput you know!

FP.