Finally set up my mobile as a bluetooth hotspot, had to reset the phone to do it. Now to wait and see if three can activate my sim/dongle, they couldn't last night.

Got a new SIM from 3 and plugged into Asus router in load balance mode and green light, all working so I now have a 3g backup on my router.

Hi,

Why don't you go for a 4G mobile broadband dongle? I find the one I have from 3 is brilliant as a backup when my VM broadband goes down (which is thankfully extremely rare) and just as my main data connection when out & about as it gives me 20GB for £9 per month.

HTH,

In reply to a post by mking90031:

Hi,

Why don't you go for a 4G mobile broadband dongle? I find the one I have from 3 is brilliant as a backup when my VM broadband goes down (which is thankfully extremely rare) and just as my main data connection when out & about as it gives me 20GB for £9 per month.

HTH,

Not everybody has a decent 4G signal. In fact there's a lot of people don't even have a decent 3G signal. I have a 4G signal at home (small town of 14k people, three miles from M40, halfway between Birmingham and London) but it's a single bar. There are places around me (rural Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire) where getting any kind of mobile signal at all is impossible.

Not that it's all bad - at least it means you can never be interrupted while playing golf at Feldon Valley because that is a complete black spot. They even warn people because if someone gets injured on the course you can't even make an emergency call.

Edited by Andrue (Mon 09-Apr-18 09:05:37)