son use three mobile unlimited data for everything, seems cheap&cheerfull, streams 4k movies, but perhaps not ideal for massive downloads. Moving sounds interesting, is it good?
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Hmm...interesting - ordered a £20 "Unlimited" Smarty SIM, will have a play when it arrives. When I get a moment, might see if the big aerials of the SIM router make a significant difference to reception, compared to the Giffgaff(O2) network connection I have anyway via MiFi. I'd expect ethernet to be less spotty than WiFi for large downloads.
It'll be a palatial shag pad without stairs. Austin Powers will be jealous.
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Location I gather matter, if the massive fornicatorium is next to a busy starbucks in central London the smarty sim will share mobile broadband infrastructure with fifty sweaty students downloading massive amounts of god knows what. Whereas if it's somewhere we'll served but quiet you may get good download speeds. Calabria I found, of Al places, have really shite mobile broadband.
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Isn't that quite an economically deprived area? Does that cause problems for you? Living where broccoli first appeared must be an upside. I suppose you could try bigger aerials too, if you haven't already? Are you holding it wrong?
No stairs, big, avoiding projected floodplains for about 40 years, close to fibre if poss, good cell reception if not, no neighbours, big pumpkin patch.
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Just threaten to leave. Virgin dropped my 150 Meg Broadband and basic TV to £14 / month.
Vermin Media hide new cheap deals from existing customers:
Smarty isn't fast, but it's more stable than what the Vermin connection has become. Smarty's upload is always faster than it's download speeds - I haven't positioned the SIM router optimally yet, however I don't expect much improvement from the present 50% to 75% signal strength, even with long ethernet cables to the other side of my house. Large downloads work, slowly. Zero config required on the TP-Link router. Fingernail your SIM in and away you go.
Slow but stable.
Smarty isn't fast, but it's more stable than what the Vermin connection has become. Smarty's upload is always faster than it's download speeds - I haven't positioned the SIM router optimally yet, however I don't expect much improvement from the present 50% to 75% signal strength, even with long ethernet cables to the other side of my house. Large downloads work, slowly. Zero config required on the TP-Link router. Fingernail your SIM in and away you go.
Slow but stable.
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If it doesn't need to be clever, some can be phone charger powered:i need a new network switch mine is 15 years old now and eating the electric
i have a cloud key but 380 quid for a fkn door bell is a bit steep
Vermin's ethernet ports all suddenly work, now that I've set up Smarty What are the chances that after I leave, and sign up again at a much lower price as a new customer, with a short 6 month contract, I'd get the new Superhub 4? More trouble than it's worth finding out lol.
What are the chances that after I leave, and sign up again at a much lower price as a new customer, with a short 6 month contract, I'd get the new Superhub 4? More trouble than it's worth finding out lol.
For new customers, it's only 6 month contract and £16 a month. Leave and I'm new. Vermin's website hides this from you, even if you delete cache and all cookies.
Websites providing downloads limit speed, traffic shaping by VM limits speed further. I need reliability not speed, and VM was ok till it got bought by Liberty Global. Three SIMs make certain I'm always online. Still may go with Zen sometime.
AAAARRRGGGHH! Yet more calls from Vermin Media, despite my emphasising "No more marketing calls!" Blocked!
Smarty's speed will just about do for now - encouraging enough stability and speed for me to route ethernet cables through ceilings to the other side of the house, to improve signal. Current speed:
When I want to leave Smarty I'll simply disable auto-payments in Paypal and auto-renew in Smarty's control panel, then throw away the SIM so they can't call me.
Smarty's speed will just about do for now - encouraging enough stability and speed for me to route ethernet cables through ceilings to the other side of the house, to improve signal. Current speed:
When I want to leave Smarty I'll simply disable auto-payments in Paypal and auto-renew in Smarty's control panel, then throw away the SIM so they can't call me.
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