Unlimited mobile 4g with Three 3 all you can eat HELP

I live in a poor Broadband area and my son an avid PS4 gamer has a sore throat from constantly shouting at me to reset the hub or that he�s �lagging�. I decided to join 3 Three UK mobile broadband and buy a Huewai device.
The 3 sim is £34 per month and says it includes the go binge all you can eat data but says 30gb hotspot limit.
Now on the live chat they said that as I will be using a 4g router the go binge all you can eat data would kick in and all the devices connected will receive unlimited data.
Now does anyone have experience with this as I�m a little sceptical as the first two days my data on the Huewai app is already used 5gb.

Any help or info appreciated.

There was a recent Ofcom agreement with Three about tethering limits and my reading of it is they've agreed to remove the separate hotspot limits (from December). You can log onto your Three account or use the app and it will tell you how much you've used. That said mine has stopped counting tethered data so it still shows my full allowance, this is recent and could be related to the Ofcom agreement I guess (but is much earlier than December).

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/bulletin...

Just hope people don't start ditching their lines and hammering 4g like what happened last time

In reply to a post by tthom:

Just hope people don't start ditching their lines and hammering 4g like what happened last time

Can you blame them when ADSL service is so poor to many people and they have no prospect of getting fibre anytime soon (as in my case here!).

In answer to the OP question - I have the same £35/month 3 deal in a 4G modem attached to a high-gain antenna pointing towards the nearest mast. Anything coming off that connection is indeed included in the all-you-can-eat-data plan, so you have no worries there. I've pulled around 200Gb last month without any problems. I've no idea why they list this stupid 30Gb tethering limit, since I don't see what the difference is when you have AYCE data through the connection to any device on your network!

Whilst I have so far found the connection to be reliable in terms of up-time, the speed of 3's 4G network has taken a real nose-dive in the last year and is appalling on the whole. Despite having a rock-solid signal here, both my phone and data contract rarely get more than 10Mbps and often around 6/7Mbps. Many other areas of the country I travel to don't seem to fair much better. I would be very interested to find out what speeds you are getting..

Anyway, sorry for going off-topic!

Dan

In reply to a post by tthom:

Just hope people don't start ditching their lines and hammering 4g like what happened last time

solution there is to not have these crazy "unlimited for X" type offers. Just sell an allowance, e.g. 100GB or 200GB for a price.

Last time people were apparently using several TB a month over cellular. That's not sustainable on a radio link.

I have also gone for the HomeFi product, so limited to the 100GB./mnth

However my speeds are great, 100Mbps compared to my ADSL 2Mbps

Speedtest

I was using the £35/mnth but thought that the router would be blacklisted eventually.

Live chat are wrong - Go binge is literally for providers like Netflix and Apple Music - not for PS4 gaming.

You can only use what you get for hotspot -that's it

In reply to a post by radiodan:

Whilst I have so far found the connection to be reliable in terms of up-time, the speed of 3's 4G network has taken a real nose-dive in the last year and is appalling on the whole. Despite having a rock-solid signal here, both my phone and data contract rarely get more than 10Mbps and often around 6/7Mbps.

Oh the irony! someone who defends bandwidth abuse then turns around and complains they can't do the same because everyone else is and their service is degraded as a result.

Quick bit of education pal - the service might be all you can eat - but the backhaul to the mast can only take so many people at 100mbps - start downloading at 4AM or get something better.

I was with three and I had the same problem as you - I had the oneplan back in the day so I fully get the business model - however it was never going to last.

I now pay EE £68 a month for 100GB - yes it's capped but I just about get through it in a month, and that's with CONSTANT speeds over over 250mbps everywhere I go.

You get what you pay for - and with 3 it's never much!

250mbps or 250Mbps or 25Mbps?

Yesterday after experiencing terrible connection I contacted three who apologised profusely that I received incorrect information and was miss sold a service. The sim they sold me was a phone sim and not a broadband sim and therefore useless in a 4g hotspot device. They have refunded me my money. Unfortunately they refuse to refund me for the Huawei pocket hotspot I purposely bought unlocked for £42