Can I dump BT?

[Vipar]

Living in a very rural hilly area mobile coverage can be patchy, 3 is none existent. Had a haggle with BT earlier in year £27.99 per month unlimited broadband, telephone receives calls at no cost but making calls is on a pay as you go rate. We both have phones on O2 on a very cheap monthly contract and this provider has the best coverage in our area.

Have a look at Sky and Tesco they both use O2 for half the price. Sky do data banking also

 

[Lenny HB]

Hi Lenny HB does your new router pick up a stronger mobile signal than your phone. I ask because I am on the fringe for mobile signals.

Can't really answer that as they are on different networks and we have a strong signal, mast is less than a mile across open fields.

But knowing that a Mifi gets better reception than a phone the router has two external aerial so I would say its got to be better.
Also you can unscrew the aerials and fit an external MIMO aerial which should bring in a good signal even in a poor signal area.

 

[Off da Grid]

I ditched Bt for freeola broadband last month and saved enough for my good lady to get a brand new iphone on contract and I’m still saving money.
We have their Silent line rental (no outgoing paid calls) and broad band 80/20 unlimited for £33 ish per month.
I bought a tplink archer router and we get a faster downlink than when On Bt.
I was with them when we had an adsl2 line years ago, and they only put the price up once in that time,
U.K. customer support etc.
We can get a reasonable signal on EE indoors so can use the mobiles for data but it’s not quite reliable enough, plus it works for Wi-fi calling when needed.
We need a reliable internet for working from home.
With regards to mobile data usage we’ve used over 30gb just today streaming on the fire stick and work usage

 

[Lenny HB]

I ditched Bt for freeola broadband last month and saved enough for my good lady to get a brand new iphone on contract and I’m still saving money.
We have their Silent line rental (no outgoing paid calls) and broad band 80/20 unlimited for £33 ish per month.

You must of been paying a lot I currently pay £25 a month for superfast broadband and line rental looking at saving about 40%, by ditching the landline and using 4g.