Internet on the move?

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I'm positive this question has been asked loads of times before, but ...

I'm wondering who out there in the wild camping world is living full time in their camper and needs unlimited internet access for work purposes?

If there is anybody, what system(s) and devices do you use and what is your monthly/annual cost for connection and costs for initial setup?

Need to start researching this for ourselves, so if anyone has first hand experience of doing this it would be a great help!

Initially we are only interested in UK access.
 
Afternoon Marie, glad to hear that you are out and about again.

We full time for 6 months in Uk and Europe .

We have a contract with 3 ,

£17 per month gets us .... Unlimited internet, free texts, tethering for 4 gigs . After 12 months, I'll ask to leave , because I've heard that they will lower the price ,rather than lose low usage customers.

We can use it abroad at the UK rate , but no tethering.

Hope this helps.
 
I bet that Phil (Admin) has a tasty set-up. That's if his front spotlights are anything to go by.;)
 
Pauljenny said:
Afternoon Marie, glad to hear that you are out and about again.

We full time for 6 months in Uk and Europe .

We have a contract with 3 ,

£17 per month gets us .... Unlimited internet, free texts, tethering for 4 gigs . After 12 months, I'll ask to leave , because I've heard that they will lower the price ,rather than lose low usage customers.

We can use it abroad at the UK rate , but no tethering.

Hope this helps.
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It seems the unlimited data is no longer available abroad ? Mind I did get conflicting answers in different 3 shops . Am using 3 for this trip and it is fine for work which is basically emails etc . Hopeless for streaming anything . Maybe by next year [next trip] there is something better on the market
 
Another vote for Knowhow and Globalgig, brilliant in France and Spain on a monthly rolling contract.
Bd..
 
i picked up a three sin in Ireland for my mifi device costs name 35 euro for 20gigs. its valid for 30 days and I always go over that anyway - its pre pay (pay as you go) and is good for Three like home so good for the UK, France and Spain. There is a caveat in that they say they will only provide three like home cover for 30 days but if that happens I have someone in Ireland who can get me another sim and send it on.

I don't think there is anyone that does unlimited access for mobile broadband on a wifi type device - if there is i would love to hear about it.
 
Curry's are flogging the SIM only for £4.97. No need to get the Mifi, just put the SIM in an unlocked Tablet, Dongle etc. Rolling 30 day contract 1 GB £7.99 5GB £15.99. various alternative plans. But cannot see reference to a Validity Period for overseas use. Constantly moving target phone and data mobile provision. I think I feel a headache coming on.
 
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Hi Marie, I have recently got a 3 Mifi on a 12 month contract. I get 15 gig for £18 per month.

If you get a Mifi on its own, you and Neil could both order the free EE sim on the 'Christmas Sim' deal. You get 100 gig a month for the first 2 months for a £10 topup. There is a limit of 2 per household but you could get round that easily enough I suppose.
 
Pauljenny said:
Afternoon Marie, glad to hear that you are out and about again.

We full time for 6 months in Uk and Europe .

We have a contract with 3 ,

£17 per month gets us .... Unlimited internet, free texts, tethering for 4 gigs . After 12 months, I'll ask to leave , because I've heard that they will lower the price ,rather than lose low usage customers.

We can use it abroad at the UK rate , but no tethering.

Hope this helps.
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is this offer still available and do you have a link please? :)

The best I can get is 20 gb for about £23 with ee
 
am I understanding it correctly, I have to validate the sim within 14 days to then get the 2 months of date. I can't keep it to use later. Do you think the sim would also work in a dongle or is that yet something else
 
Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Unofficial BT WiFi/Openzone/FON access via a relative's login, coupled to an El Cheapo Chinese ariel. - Always a connection if houses nearby, sometimes flaky, longest connection approx 1 mile .

ebay item no, 281748345949 for long range USB Antenne

Alec......:cool::cool::cool::cool:
 
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We are currently in France using 3 Feel at Home. We pay £10.88 a month for 15Gb which is usually adequate for our use in Uk (just). But the reception here in France has been a bit patchy. We are using a Huawei E5372 mobile Wi-Fi dongle which is pretty good but at £78 a tad expensive I think. When using a Huawei dongle it seems that it is esential that you get the Huawei app on your 'phone so that you can reset settings and network providers etc. We would have been completly stuffed without the app as somehow or other roaming had been turned off when we first got here and it took at least an hours worth of 'phone calls to their very helpful customer services to sort it. They didn't quite, and in the end it was perserverance using the app that did fix it but it was 2 days out of my life on and off to get it up and running again. In future we will probably just use a French sim.
 
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Although not wholely addressing the OP query. I've mentioned this in a previous thread, if all else fails and you are spending time in Spain you could do worse than going to the nearest Orange Shop and getting a PAYG DATA SIM no rolling contract no faffing away X number of days of your life that you'll never get back determining whether or not just what 3 means in its T&Cs.
30 days, €10, 1GB. Just take Passport and give the local campsite or 5 star hotel as your address.
 
I was told by 3 that the "feel at home" deal lasts for 50 days....
 
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