Wifi

What would you lovely people recommend for wifi usage in your motorhome while within the UK . Tia

Thank you Mark will look into it

Anyone know why?

Yes indeed the 'feel at home' is not available to Three IE. I took myself up north and bought an unlocked http://www.three.co.uk/Discove…lour=White with a 12gb data SIM card. Worked brilliantly in France and Uk. Only downside is I cannot top up online as credit card needs to be registered in UK, but a trip up north to the outlet store is always enjoyable!

Mark has replied with mobile Wifi options, but if you are looking to connect to static wifi such as a campsite or the BT and FON systems then you can use boosters to pull the signal in to your van better.

Most of these are USB though and unless you are using a Laptop not a lot of devices have a USB port, that then means you need a router that accepts the booster and in turn shares the signal around your van to connect wirelessly.

Contract SIM or PAYG? you would need two sims then if you are going over the border? can't tether whilst roaming on Three, don't know about others?

Also I noticed that a MiFi has a lot more signal than a phone, plus you can add an aerial. Pity an aerial can't be added to a phone, that would be handy.

Pay as you go. If you just use the phone as a "hotspot" it only collects data as a phone and whereas a modem is recognised immediately the phone runs perfectly happily.

I have had a UK phone and Irish phone for near as many years as Ireland has had mobile phones, its about time this cross border network divide and roaming was abolished for all charges, calls and data.

We have a Meteor contract for Mifi down here since 3 stopped supporting rural broadband and used to have Tesco mifi in the camper but these days just use my Tesco PAYG IE & UK for the small amount of data I use on the move.

I am not the gadget guy .... But my husband bought this off amazon and pays £10 per month for 5gb. It s on the three network and as such it's free to roam in 21 countries including France, Ireland, Spain and Portugal.

Just to say 3 Ireland used to have a plan called "Three Like Home" which was the same as Feel like Home. I had it for years on my contract with them. Now that is an addon and cost 2.99 per month which you can turn on and off as you wish. I think its only about 2GB for the month if you are roaming but that should be fine for normal (non-movie-streaming) usage. But not great. "Turn off that bloody YouTube child!"

If you are travelling in the RoI, you can buy a SIM from 3 Ireland and put 20€ on it. This will give you "all you can eat" 3G/4G data for 1 month. All you can eat data by 3 Ireland's definition is 60GB. If you go over 60GB, they reserve the right to throttle your connection if your usage is affecting others on the network, so you still get data just not at 4G speeds. So €20 for guaranteed 60GB ... thats as good as you will get in RoI. Their 4G network is really improving recently also.