Best data sims for 5g wifi hotspots

borat

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What do folks use for WiFi hotspots? Ideally prefer a prepaid option vs contract
 
I've got Four of these now...

One in each vans WiFi, one in the work laptop, and one in the home WiFi backup.

50Gb per month (till 2027 some time) for one payment of £54 !!!!





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And for the bus heater (autoterm modem) where I need SMS.

I have a Lebara SIM, £3 per month rolling.


And also testing out an ASDA PAYG, with £5 credit.... And 10p a SMS or something like that.
 
Nice! How do you find the signal / speeds?
Same as my Phone, they on the Vodafone/Three network.

If you got signal, then you good.



 
If you haven't got signal, then look at Starlink.

 
What do folks use for WiFi hotspots? Ideally prefer a prepaid option vs contract
We just use our phones. Lebara 30GB data, unlimited calls/texts, EU roaming £8/month. We travel extensively in Europe circa 3months/year. Never come close to running out of data. If we need WiFi for the iPad, just switch on the phone hotspot. We have a couple of old iPhones, I’d considered hardwiring one into the van, voila! WiFi and tracker for free. But we’ve never felt the need.
 
We have a Three sim with a 5G modem - £20 per month for unlimited data. We're currently on a site in Hampshire with very poor mobile 5g (showing one bar of 4g), but the modem worked well enough - around 40mbps - for Netflix

Unlimited data in the UK only, but a £5 per day passport worked well for remote working around France last year
 
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If you haven't got signal, then look at Starlink.

Yep I’m starlinked up. Don’t feel comfortable leaving that on all the time tho so this would be for a permanent solution to connect dashcam etc to
 
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Yep I’m starlinked up. Don’t feel comfortable leaving that on all the time tho so this would be for a permanent solution to connect dashcam etc to
Same as us then.
 
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