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13/8/2020 at 12:00pm
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Does anyone use portable wi fi when on site? If so does it work well and is it reasonably priced.?
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13/8/2020 at 1:55pm
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I use personal hotspot on my phone which is the same idea, it all depends on the network coverage at a particular location. In 4G coverage it is excellent.
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13/8/2020 at 5:17pm
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When I need mobile wifi on the ipad, I get a payg sim from ee. It has proved reasonable value for money and also works in europe.
The one I am using at present is giving me 8Gb for £10 over 30 days.
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13/8/2020 at 7:01pm
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Is there not a difference between mobile data & wifi?
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24/8/2020 at 8:17am
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Quote: Originally posted by Median on 23/8/2020
This is just changing your contract and using your phone as a hotspot. I have one sim, which is my contract sim, that has a decent data limit. As I said I then turn on the ‘hotspot’ on my phone and anyone with the password can use it like a dongle.
What do you mean about changing your contract?
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24/8/2020 at 11:58am
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Quote: Originally posted by Whatamess on 24/8/2020
Quote: Originally posted by Median on 23/8/2020
This is just changing your contract and using your phone as a hotspot. I have one sim, which is my contract sim, that has a decent data limit. As I said I then turn on the ‘hotspot’ on my phone and anyone with the password can use it like a dongle.
What do you mean about changing your contract?
I assume they mean getting a contract with a good amount of data if you don't have one already. If your contract has a decent data allowance you can use your phone as a mobile hotspot and connect laptops/tablets to it to access the internet. Thereby avoiding the need to have separate data only SIMS.
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25/8/2020 at 8:23am
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We were surprised at how much mobile data (4G) we used when using our phones as a hotspot. We were away for 3 weeks in July and only really used it for checking emails and a bit of browsing for weather and local information during the day, downloading our daily newspaper through their App and then maybe an hour of streaming video in the evening. My husband ate through his 10gb in about a week and then had to start using mine for the rest of the holiday. I have 60gb that I rarely use at home, it’s just what came as a deal with the phone, but we ended up using at least 30gb of that in the 3 weeks so between us, we must have used 40gb in total.
If all you are using it for is email and browsing the internet, then a few gb of 4G data will be fine but start downloading or streaming and you will need a lot more!
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Topic: Portable wi fi
via mobile 13/8/2020 at 6:57pm
