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Kite159
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Basically when you sign into the WiFi page, you can use the access code to give 10* hours free WiFi. The codes are not service dependent (as I used a code I got sent for a journey back last June a few weeks ago)
Halish Railway
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I can never connect. It would be good if they use the type of wifi where you just put in your email e.g. TPE and Northern 321/322/333's
HarleyDavidson
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Just get a decent mobile phone package you can get a 12M SO deal for £20 pcm you can get: unlimited txts, 3000 mins & 16 Gb of data.
Alternatively get a mobile hotspot and put in a Data Sim on a 30 day rolling SO contract, no faffing about with Wi-Fi and you get the bandwidth all to yourself.
Have a look at Vodafone, Three, EE & so on see what deals are available or go on Amazon and buy a data sim there to get started.
Alternatively get a mobile hotspot and put in a Data Sim on a 30 day rolling SO contract, no faffing about with Wi-Fi and you get the bandwidth all to yourself.
Have a look at Vodafone, Three, EE & so on see what deals are available or go on Amazon and buy a data sim there to get started.
Not sure about the East Coast, but the phone signal is too unreliable for consistent use on the West Coast services.
That has more to do with the trains on the West Coast with their coated windows. I reckon on the East Coast I get around 80+% coverage on EE. Three is patchier but still around 70%.
Going through Cumbria and southern Scotland doesn't help!
Oddly enough I can usually get a signal there. The bit from Carlisle to Edinburgh is poor, but the worst bit is Preston to somewhere south of Crewe, where outside of stations I get absolutely nothing.
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This has nothing to do with trains but what happened to O2? They are the cheapest network on most deals, except Three on a few.
And for some advice, use Carphone Warehouse to compare deals.
I routinely carry phones on 3 different networks around with me (not for any very good reason, but it is useful for comparisons). When comparing signals the single most common question I end up asking myself is "what happened to O2?". Somewhere around about 2009 they seem to have given up on providing a meaningful network, and since then it's been about as much use as a rabbit phone. Even when you can get a signal the speed never seems to be good enough to watch video, and the "unlimited" packages on Giff-Gaff at least are some of the most limited unlimited packages I've ever seen, with heavy rate limiting beyond a really low monthly cap.
A lot of people are wondering that (Edit: I see takno made a similar comment!). What DID happen to O2? They ended up with far too little 4G spectrum and seemed happy with the 'cheap' batch that came with a requirement to hit a certain percentage by the end of this year or next, which I think it may have hit - just - but with not exactly amazing speeds.
Three has the next least, but does have a lot of 3G spectrum and a very solid 3G network. Three is slowly refarming 3G spectrum to 4G and has some more spectrum it will make live soon - albeit with users needing a phone that supports that band (Vodafone has the same support coming too).
That leaves Vodafone and EE way out in front, meaning that even on a train you can find yourself getting speeds of 100+ Mbps. Somewhat overkill for most uses, but good for anyone that needs to move around large files (perhaps for business, backing up data or whatever). Faster 4G technologies also offer lower latency, which means you benefit even with more routing web browsing, IM etc.
Also, Giffgaff has a much lower network priority than O2 so if there's congestion, you'll be throttled before an O2 user (or as it happens a Tesco Mobile user). Giffgaff really is mega budget, although I don't actually think it's that cheap anymore. Frankly, I'd recommend many 30 day or 12 month SIM only contracts that offer more value in the long term.
Makes sense. I only got the GiffGaff SIM to let my parents call me cheaply, but I was shocked by how useless it was. The other SIMs are on 30 day SIM-only contracts, which seems like the best option.
I pay £17.99 a month now on EE for unlimited texts, unlimited minutes (I think, I hardly use either!) and more importantly 30GB data on a 12 month SIM only plan. I was paying £19.99 for 16GB data up until recently when the new deal came up which they quite happily applied as I was just out of my existing 12 months!
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