In reply to a post by jchamier:

Only Vodafone’s mobile data is unlimited. All the others (EE, O2, Three) has a FUP.

Does Smarty unlimited have FUP? Thought they say there are NONE! But I understand why they are very poor speed high ping I seen highest are 72ms last night and went down to 0.96Mbps.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Does Smarty unlimited have FUP? Thought they say there are NONE!

I have not checked as I have no need; but Three does, and since Three own Smarty, I would be surprised.

But I understand why they are very poor speed high ping I seen highest are 72ms last night and went down to 0.96Mbps.

Mobile is variable based on load. You might find there are a lot of Three and Smarty customers in your area last night.

Fixed line broadband will always win over mobile, even with 5G arrives.

Smarty has ruined my own number port over as it still show unknown number mess it up. As my other plusnet sim card still got my own number on it but the network no longer work as it was successful transfer to smarty. I text word PAC to 65075 on my smarty but say fail sent. Fuming now. Can't get my own number port back to Plusnet sim

Edited by adslmax (Wed 28-Oct-20 14:17:19)

Ports take upto midnight on the date of port. They don't happen instantly.

The performance of a mobile network is highly dependant on the location and number of users.

I get 40-75mbps solid with my Smarty connection where I use it the most. Overall though, if I go on the road I notice that 3 coverage is vastly inferior to that of O2.

Always pays to use a 1 quid SIM card before porting. Try before you port/buy.

VOXI is a Vodafone reseller that has unlimited for 35 per month, no contract. Perhaps try them out with a 5 quid SIM before porting etc.

If you only use or need 12GB a month then you could go with any provider really for next to nothing. Might as well stick with EE. If you need 100GB+ then the choices become a lot less.

Edited by deleted (Thu 29-Oct-20 11:04:05)

I use about 27-42GB a month on mobile data but my smarty seem ok today pick up 33-56Meg down and 28-31Meg up. The last two days been awful slow.

In reply to a post by Anonymous1337:

Perhaps try them out with a 5 quid SIM before porting etc.

Thanks I try that

FWIW, I have the three unlimited data for £18 Monthly and use the Huawei B525. usually get around 75/35 but at peak times, download can drop to around 50 Mbit. It's been pretty solid for the 3 Months that I've used it. You can get the prepaid data SIMs for three, so worth a try then see what "Black Friday" offers appear.

That pretty faster than FTTC where did you buy Huawei B525 from do u need to do some few settings on LTE Modem?

Bought it on ebay. I did load the firmware to allow modem mode but it then updated itself with their latest firmware so I just set a static IP/DMZ to my main router but if you use it as a router, there isn't anything you really need to configure outside of the usual port forwarding etc.