Mobile Phones 3g tethering

[tony49]

ok lads ive read the post bye Thommo about 3g tethering
im off back in hospital on the 23 of this month for a fue days what i plan to do is take my phone and a laptop to tether to it to watch sky go
with my contrack i only get 500.MB Mobile Web is that enough to watch a footy match on the laptop or does anyone no how lang it would last

cheers tony

 

[dibbers]

Quite a good read here

What do 500MB and 1GB actually correspond to in real life usage? For example, how many webpages, emails or videos is this?

It’s hard to give an exact figure – for example every webpage will differ in size depending on the amount of text, images and other multimedia content on it. Also, whilst most e-mail messages are typically small in size, they can be fairly large if they include attachments such as photographs. In the following table, we’ve taken “typical” values as provided by O2:

	500MB corresponds to…	1GB corresponds to…
Basic webpages (mainly text)	5,000	10,000
Rich webpages (with multimedia, e.g. BBC)	1,500	3,000
Basic e-mails	500,000	1,000,000
Rich e-mails (with attachments)	1,000	2,000
Downloading/streaming music	100 songs	200 songs
Downloading/streaming video	1 hour	2 hours
Skype voice call	15 hours	30 hours
Skype video call	2 hours	4 hours
Listening to online radio	8 hours	16 hours
Downloading/updating apps	80 apps	160 apps

 

[tony49]

thanks for that bidders looks like i wont be watching the footy then

 

[nistleboy]

thanks for that bidders looks like i wont be watching the footy then

Why dont you buy a giffgaffe sim just for your football.

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[tony49]

Why dont you buy a giffgaffe sim just for your football.

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i dont no what one of them is so will hav a look about them ta

 

[gadgethome]

I recently joined giffgaff and so far very good. However they do not allow tethering and they will ban your sim. Reading through their forums, they are checking and banning users when found.

I believe Three allow tethering and they just introduced all you can eat data for around £18 for a month.

 

[steve2493]

three don't allow tethering on all you can eat data, they do an addon which will allow you 2gb per month.

I recently joined giffgaff and so far very good. However they do not allow tethering and they will ban your sim. Reading through their forums, they are checking and banning users when found.

I believe Three allow tethering and they just introduced all you can eat data for around £18 for a month.