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Post by Firefox on Nov 7, 2013 12:06:08 GMT
The service was getting worse and worse. It wasn't worth £15 a month.
I was having difficulty finding good hotspots. I think people are switching off their BT routers and going with the many other providers there are now, or mobile, as the market changes.
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Post by Pollik on Nov 7, 2013 18:42:32 GMT
It might be that I don't often look for hotspots, but I don't seem to have any trouble when I need one. Having said that, nothing would persuade me to go with BT as my ISP. I have a Fon device, which cost me about £30, which plugs into my modem/router and shares my connection to whoever feels like standing in the middle of a country road with no pavements. What it costs me is the power consumption, nothing more.
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Post by Firefox on Nov 7, 2013 19:18:59 GMT
I use it a lot locally in one or two spots and those had all disappeared.
It was possible to get a signal but usually very weak and I would have to move around. Often there wasn't suitable overnight parking where there was a good signal which was deal breaker for me.
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Post by kangooroo on Nov 7, 2013 19:25:32 GMT
I find it useful when away particularly in areas where there's no mobile reception. These areas tend to be exclusively, or almost exclusively, served only by BT as an ISP.
When my BT access expires, I'll do the same as Pollik and use a Fon for internet access on the move.
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Post by Firefox on Nov 7, 2013 19:31:53 GMT
The thing is with Fon, you have to have to pay for internet to share at home via their router so it wouldn't work for me.
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Post by kangooroo on Nov 7, 2013 19:54:04 GMT
That's true for you but I'm hoping we'll always have internet access at home because the Fon arrangement is much cheaper than paying for a dongle with limited coverage.
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Post by Firefox on Nov 7, 2013 19:59:31 GMT
Fon arrangement cheaper for sure, but coverage on my 3G Dongle 10x better than BT/Fon, especially rural areas.
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Post by kangooroo on Nov 7, 2013 20:18:22 GMT
It depends on where you visit. Many of the areas I camp in have no mobile reception on any network, including the land, so I'm reliant upon a local farm/cottage having BT broadband (and BT tends to be the only ISP covering these areas so it's a fairly safe bet!).
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