Comments for Mobile Broadband

Comment on 700% increase in data traffic on 3 Mobile by George

George — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:21:19 +0000

You are lucky Torbayman - I can’t even get close to the dial-up 56k modem speed using 3 mobile’s Pay as you go so called “3g”….

Its a pure frustration.

Shame!

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Comment on How Fast is Mobile Broadband? by Bill

Bill — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:42:18 +0000

Using a 3 dongle in London, hitting a maximum around 2 mb which is pretty good….

Slows down a bit in the evening at peak time but still not bad.

Comment on 3 Mobile Broadband with Free Laptop! by reality

reality — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:00:10 +0000

If only it was free. It’s false advertising really. It costs about £30 per month to get a decent laptop which doesn’t have a small screen so your paying an extra £360 over the 2 years than you would for just getting the mobile broadband alone.

You may as well use that £360 yourself and have a wider range of laptops to choose from.

Comment on How Fast is Mobile Broadband? by brad

brad — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:47:25 +0000

I got a 3 broadband modem and its brilliant hitting an avarage of 2.5 mb per second and its only 19.99 a month for 15 gb usage allowance

Comment on Vodafone dongle sales increase in stores by D Homer

D Homer — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:34:56 +0000

Have bought the above but cannot make a connection. Cannot find a area coverage map.

Comment on 3 cuts pay as you go mobile broadband price by Torbayman

Torbayman — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:38:19 +0000

Same story here.

I get full strength HSDPA, but typically get between 4 and 40kbp/s, and have NEVER had a conection faster than 1.5Mbp/s (in the dead of night when everyone else is asleep).

The thing that really gets me is that you can complain to 3 all you like. Nothing much ever seems to get done beyond answering a load of questions.

Every month they take the full monthly contract price, and offer no discount for the (frankly pathetic) poor service that is endured.

I have had this service for almost 18 months, nothing has really changed, and I have no desire whatsoever to continue with this company. To say I am angry at them is an understatement.

Avoid. I cannot tell you how utterly ripped off I feel.

Comment on 3 Mobile Broadband on the Mac - USB drivers by Torbayman

Torbayman — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:21:39 +0000

Paul,

I checked the packaging on my 3 Mobile broadband. Windows 98 is not supported. You need Windows 2000 minimum to get it to work at all.

HTH.

Torbayman.

Comment on 700% increase in data traffic on 3 Mobile by Torbayman

Torbayman — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:08:14 +0000

Hmm, I wouldn’t go so far as to say it is unreliable. The modem works fine at 3am in the morning when everyone else has gone to bed.

The network in my area is grossly overloaded and it seems that 3 are doing very little to improve things. I was told before Christmas that the network was being upgraded to 7.2 Mb/s before the end of 2008.

It is now May of 2009, and I STILL don’t get any better than a dial-up 56k modem at the times when I most want to use it. I had a modem 10 years ago that gave me a better performance.

There may be a 700% increase in traffic, but there isn’t a 700% increase in network support.

To anyone considering mobile broadband: think carefully before signing the contract.