Data sims for mobile router

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We are just back from a trip to the SW. On plugging in the Firestick it said it was updating. I thought hmm should have checked it before leaving but no matter.... and woosh my data allowance vanished. It's an O2 sim and 3 gig is an eye watering £12.

Suggestions please for a piggy back vendor on the O2 network. We carry usually 3 sims as here is Scotland we have found it's daft to rely on one as the coverage varies so greatly.

TIA
 
Borders2 said:
We are just back from a trip to the SW. On plugging in the Firestick it said it was updating. I thought hmm should have checked it before leaving but no matter.... and woosh my data allowance vanished. It's an O2 sim and 3 gig is an eye watering £12.

Suggestions please for a piggy back vendor on the O2 network. We carry usually 3 sims as here is Scotland we have found it's daft to rely on one as the coverage varies so greatly.

TIA
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Best coverage up here is EE.
I have travelled all over Scotland are rarely have issues with it.
 
Borders2 said:
Suggestions please for a piggy back vendor on the O2 network. We carry usually 3 sims as here is Scotland we have found it's daft to rely on one as the coverage varies so greatly.
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In my experience, O2 is consistently the worst network for data. EE is the best, Three the most variable.
When Three is good, it's wonderful.
 
1pmobile works fine, but it really expensive for data. We mostly use scancom sims on Three, or RWGmobile sims on EE.
 
Geek said:
In my experience, O2 is consistently the worst network for data. EE is the best, Three the most variable.
When Three is good, it's wonderful.
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I agree. 02 hopeless in the uk for data outside big towns. For roaming abroad i dont think ID whom use Three can be beat as for the past year there has been no Fair Use policy in place ( until further notice) we've roamed for 8 months of the past 12 months and no issues. Plus 1 month contracts and cheap contracts.
 
Geek said:
1pmobile works fine, but it really expensive for data. We mostly use scancom sims on Three, or RWGmobile sims on EE.
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www.1pmobile.com

Great value pre-pay tariffs and the UKs best coverage

1pMobile - great value prepay SIM only deals from PAYG to Unlimited. Switch today - keep your number.
www.1pmobile.com www.1pmobile.com

£270 for a year paid up front = £22.50 per month.
The same deal is available half that price for second sim in the same household.

That works out cheaper by quite a bit than our fixed broadband connection. If only we got a good enough signal to actually make it work.
 
Geek said:
1pmobile works fine, but it really expensive for data. We mostly use scancom sims on Three, or RWGmobile sims on EE.
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For my purposes 1p Mobile is fine, I can buy a 30day boost if I am going to be away for any length of time, but I don't go away long often enough to make it worthwhile getting a years worth. I get 25GB for £10 a month on my current plan so if I got a 75GB boost to go away with making it up to 100GB I reckon that would suit my useage.

75GB​

  • Unlimited calls & texts
£12.50

100GB​

  • Unlimited calls and texts
£15.00

150GB​

  • Unlimited calls & texts
£17.50

200GB​

  • Unlimited calls & texts
£20.00

Unlimited​

  • Unlimited data, calls & texts
£25.00
 
Geek said:
In my experience, O2 is consistently the worst network for data. EE is the best, Three the most variable.
When Three is good, it's wonderful.
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Yes but when it’s bad it’s utterly useless Geek.
My wife and I used to reckon having two networks gave us the best chance of getting good coverage. But after two years it became obvious that EE was either better or just the same everywhere, particularly up here in Scotland. We were up in Ullapool there was she watching videos on YouTube, whilst I had zilch, and I mean zilch. That done it for me I dropped three and went over to EE. And because we have EE broadband and tv, I get three sims one each for my wife and I, and the third for the router. All with unlimited data for £33 a month.
 
Works the other way round too. There are a couple of places we go where there is zero EE signal but Three storms along.

The motorhome router has a Three sim which is capped to 500Gb per month. That's more than enough. It costs peanuts.

When there is no Three signal, our phones (on EE) can do a hotspot. Very rate, that. Not nèded in the last couple of years, but it has happened.

There was a place only last month where there was no service on EE or Three. I dont remember whether it was Vodafone or O2 that showed signal.
 
"It costs peanuts"
I checked: I paid £69.99 for 30 months prepaid. That's £2.33 pet month. The price varies a lot, though. You have to buy when it's cheap.
 
Borders2 said:
We are just back from a trip to the SW. On plugging in the Firestick it said it was updating. I thought hmm should have checked it before leaving but no matter.... and woosh my data allowance vanished. It's an O2 sim and 3 gig is an eye watering £12.

Suggestions please for a piggy back vendor on the O2 network. We carry usually 3 sims as here is Scotland we have found it's daft to rely on one as the coverage varies so greatly.

TIA
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I use a Sky Mobile SIM in my Motorhome Router. Sky piggyback off O2 and I think the SIM is £4/month for unlimited Calls and Texts (irrelevant) and 100MB of Data.
I don't go for a package with more data as I can use the data in my Sky Mobile Piggyback to transfer as much as I want each month to the SIM and with nearly 2TB of Data I am not going to run short for a while. (I have 2 phones with the same package for the same reason).

I went with Smarty Mobile for a while and that tended to be a pain as THREE is basically either a terrible network service due to lack of coverage, or very slow due to network overload. Prices may be good but if it doesn't work it is not much of a saving , is it!
 
I have a Tesco unlimited that I got on a Black Friday deal at 17.50 per month, and gives unlimited in Europe too
It has been working my phone, fire stick and 2 iPads here in France without any issues
 
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