Has anyone tryed this new 3 brodband ?
I think is about a tenner a month. What kind of signal do you get when your moving about from place to place.
Any comments welcome
Hi there,
Got a friend who uses it and he swears by it.
He got a 3 phone as well and managed to negotiate it to £6 a month. You can use it anywhere there is phone reception (not just 3 phone reception)
It seems reasonably fast and there’s only a few places I haven’t seen it work.
I intend on getting one early next year.
Alex
I’ve thought about getting this but dont really understand the gigabyte thing.
Assuming you’re on 1gb per month what does this equate too? ie how many emails could you send/recieve a day? can you monitor how much you’re using?
Think I’ve just answered my own question, on the 3 phone website is the following:
1GB of data lets you: Send 650 plain text emails AND surf the web for 30hrs AND download 30 two minute videos AND download 60 music tracks.
3GB of data lets you: Send 2000 plain text emails AND surf the web for 100hrs AND download 100 two minute videos AND download 200 music tracks.
7GB of data lets you: Send 4500 plain text emails AND surf the web for 200hrs AND download 200 two minute videos AND download 400 music tracks
Hi Fastrantiger,
Yes you can monitor how much you are using, simply put in google “Free Bandwidth monitor”, there are hundreds of free programs that will show you how much you use.
Why not give one a go for a day and see how much you use? as everyone will be different.
BUT if you just use email, browse these forums and don’t download too many files then you could send and receive about 500 text only emails per day without running out of your allocated bandwidth.
If you download films and TV programs then you can quite easily use 1gb in 5 hours or so.
Similarly if you don’t do any of that and just use email and forums then 1gb a month is quite probably 4x more than you need.
Alex
The other thing to remember is that if you use a online email service such as hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc then this can drastically cut your bandwidth use.
As the email is never downloaded to your pc, its just the server showing you the text…so webmail can increase your usage without having to upgrade your contract.
Alex
Thanks Alex, think you just convinced me its a good deal. My Orange contract is due for renewal soon so could be worth getting a deal for both.
Nigel.
Scarab:
The other thing to remember is that if you use a online email service such as hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc then this can drastically cut your bandwidth use.As the email is never downloaded to your pc, its just the server showing you the text…so webmail can increase your usage without having to upgrade your contract.
Personally I think you’ve got that the wrong way round.
Assuming an email has no attachments there is very little else to it other than the text, whereas the webpage on hotmail/yahoo/etc has the text, plus lots of HTML, and dozens of images that make up the page. Plus if you then want to go back and re-read the email later on, you have to download it all again whereas if you’ve got it in Outlook (or similar) on your PC then you don’t even need to connect to the net to do that.
Paul
my daughter is looking at this - she spoke to them today and was told that there is no coverage at all in the part of devon that she lives in 
sounds like a good deal though!
This is why i asked 
I dont think 3 have good coverage.