Is 250MB of Internet Allowance enough?

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Buy the phone sim free, it's about £350 on amazon and join giffgaff. £10 a month, unlimited Internet and texts as well as 250minutes.

With GiffGaff, to pay for the handset plus 24 months of those goodybags it would be £350 + (24*£10) = £590

That's a bit expensive - I think GiffGaff is better for lower end phones that have very cheap handsets. But if you want a more expensive handset, it would be more cost efficient to go on contract where you can pay £15-20 a month, but get the handset free.

I mean, I found a deal where I can get the handset free and pay £16 a month for 24 months for 200 minutes, 500 texts and unlimited internet. £16*24 = £384
Which is all I need to be honest, for £200 less :smile:

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David Sayers

Turning off location and push permissions for apps will stop this

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Reply 22

Giant

Original post by Junaid96

Hold on, I know plenty of people are saying it's enough, but personally I have 500mb and on my old Android phone I was constantly meeting that limit. 250mb is very, very little - you'll have 8mb a day..
3 minutes of video and boom, your data will be used up. 2 minutes of HD video will leave you owing the network about £1. You'll be able to view about 50 single webpages a day, assuming you do nothing else. Download an app and that will probably be the equivalent of 3 days' usage. I would be very careful about agreeing to 250mb - over the next couple of years we're going to see even more internet capabilities from mobiles, and you will live to regret it.

Yeh, that is some good advice, which is why I looked a bit harder and found a better deal where I could get unlimited internet :smile:

Thanks

Reply 23

Doglamlico

Original post by Giant

Yeh, that is some good advice, which is why I looked a bit harder and found a better deal where I could get unlimited internet :smile:

Thanks

Nice one

I'm definitely getting at least 1GB when I upgrade, probably way more so I can tether my laptop/tablet at uni.

Reply 24

cl_steele

Original post by hannahcoroner

Oh I'll definitely look into that! I know that iMessage drains loadsss of your allowance so I've turned that off but yeah I'll see if I can turn anything else off :-)
That would make sense because I always get notifications from Facebook/ twitter etc so they must be always connected!
Thanks for the advice!

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yar i found out the hard way on my blackberry when i forgot to turn off the roaming thing when i went to Turkey, big mistake a £20 bill jumped to £250 by the time id gotten home -_- was not impressed in the slightest :tongue:

Reply 25

James82

Original post by David Sayers

EDIT: bare these figures in mind when looking at file sizes

1 bit = 1024 kbs
1024 kbs = 1 mb
1024 mbs = 1 gb

kbs (kilobits per second) are used to measure speed, kB (kilobytes) are used to measure file size.

8192 bits = 1 kB
1024 bits = 1 kb

Reply 26

plimsolls

Fine if you're a light user. You'll have to stay away from youtube.

Reply 27

Camoxide

Original post by Junaid96

Nice one

I'm definitely getting at least 1GB when I upgrade, probably way more so I can tether my laptop/tablet at uni.

you have to check the terms and conditions. It's common for carriers to not allow tethering.

Reply 28

chaosdestro0

It might be OK for you but my home connection gets through about half a terabyte a month lol.

Reply 29

Doglamlico

Original post by Camoxide

you have to check the terms and conditions. It's common for carriers to not allow tethering.

Yeah I know, I'm looking into ways of *ahem* tethering without them knowing :smile:

Or I'll just go for ones which allow it.

Reply 30

und

Original post by Junaid96

Yeah I know, I'm looking into ways of *ahem* tethering without them knowing :smile:

Or I'll just go for ones which allow it.

The One plan is the best plan at the moment if you want absolutely unlimited tethering. Carriers like GiffGaff will actually check the type of usage and block you if they notice you're tethering, which isn't too difficult for them.

Reply 31

Doglamlico

Original post by und

Oh, that's sneaky of them :smile:

I might go for the One plan next year - looks pricey though.

Reply 32

David Sayers

Original post by Junaid96

Oh, that's sneaky of them :smile:

I might go for the One plan next year - looks pricey though.

On a lot of phones, I know I can on my iPhone I can use it to create a personal hotspot with my 3G to allow me use my laptop online. This is allowed. Not sure if that counts as tethering? But obviously you'd get through usage much quicker and it would still be just as slow

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Reply 33

Doglamlico

Original post by David Sayers

Yeah that's counted as tethering. What do you mean "just as slow"? My mobile internet is normally between 3-5 Mbps - not too shabby :smile:

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David Sayers

Original post by Junaid96

Yeah that's counted as tethering. What do you mean "just as slow"? My mobile internet is normally between 3-5 Mbps - not too shabby :smile:

Just that it's nothing on the speed of wifi that's all I meant

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Reply 35

Doglamlico

Original post by David Sayers

Just that it's nothing on the speed of wifi that's all I meant

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Well, that depends on your home broadband speed :smile:

Mine was only upgraded from 0.5 Meg in summer :tongue:

and even now it's 3-4 Meg, nothing special. Wish I had fibre :frown:

Reply 36

David Sayers

Original post by Junaid96

Well, that depends on your home broadband speed :smile:

Mine was only upgraded from 0.5 Meg in summer :tongue:

and even now it's 3-4 Meg, nothing special. Wish I had fibre :frown:

I've no idea what speed I'm running at, wish I didn't have orange tho :/ likes to turn itself on and off when it pleases and I have to plug in to fix the pairing. Normally at the most inconvenient times

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Reply 37

Doglamlico

Original post by David Sayers

Over summer Three decided they were going to repair our local network tower without telling us. I called them and asked what was going on (I'd lost signal for a few hours) and they said they were repairing it for the day. I whinged and whinged on the phone to see how much I could get out of them, and they ended up giving me 2.5GB of data, even though my contract only provides 500mb per month :biggrin:

The funniest part is that I was on the way to a totally different part of England at the time of calling, and stayed there for two weeks and so wasn't even remotely affected by the repair :smile:

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