I went the "other" way. Fed up of giving my hard earned to BT, Zen and Vodafone I took a 3 mobile contract. My phone is now my modem and my line speeds are better than my hard line speeds (tested using TBB's tester). Watched top gear on the phone this a.m. in Bedford and am now typing this on my laptop tethered to my phone at home. No modems, no wires, no keeping a fixed line phone for testing, no "have your neighbours bought new Xmas lights" questions, no drop outs....blissful.

oh dear......3 have just discontinued unlimited mobile tethering....dont give up your landline yet...
Ian

In reply to a post by nomadros1:

I went the "other" way. Fed up of giving my hard earned to BT, Zen and Vodafone I took a 3 mobile contract. My phone is now my modem and my line speeds are better than my hard line speeds (tested using TBB's tester). Watched top gear on the phone this a.m. in Bedford and am now typing this on my laptop tethered to my phone at home. No modems, no wires, no keeping a fixed line phone for testing, no "have your neighbours bought new Xmas lights" questions, no drop outs....blissful.

Tethering your phone is likely to get slow as soon as TrafficSense notices. Any new customers have a 2Gigabyte tethering limit (unlimited on the phone itself). If you want mobile broadband, Three (and EE's) mobile broadband products are better for speed - but not unlimited usage.

No radio based system can beat a wired system for high levels of usage.

In reply to a post by noppix1:

I`m new here but I have been in I.T for many years.

In reply to a post by noppix1:

To be honest 10Mbit is a lot and unless you have a household of internet nutter like I do you will be fine.
An average netflix stream is quoted as being 2.8gig per hour for HD, That amounts to 0.77 meg per second.

Hmmmm

In reply to a post by mjws2:

However, I am having issues on anything that requires a constant internet connection, as I have intermittent drops in connection speed to zero. These are there at all times, but worse during peak times, when they increase in frequency from about once every 2 minutes to several times a minute, and last longer (from under a second to several seconds at a trot).

That's quite a specific and unusual issue. How did you ascertain this/got any plots?

Maybe an explanation of your thoughts rather than posting a pointless reply!

Edited by deleted (Tue 04-Mar-14 00:20:01)

Probably over how you turn 2.7GB into 0.77 Mbps, you are a long way out with the calculation

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/images/factsheet/q4-20...

I can see your point. but the post did not state it was Mbit I put meg meaning MByte. I suppose I left it open to speculation. My mistake.

Edited by deleted (Tue 04-Mar-14 11:32:05)

The general rule is if you say Meg you mean Mega bits per second

To be honest Andrew I could not really agree, Back in the day when you purchased a 250 Meg hard drive or 512 Meg of memory what was you expecting to get?.

Edit:silly spelling mistake

Edited by deleted (Tue 04-Mar-14 12:07:54)