On 18/10/2020 21:35, Robert wrote:
On 18/10/2020 21:21, Roger Mills wrote:
I need a constant internet facility at my holiday flat in order to use
the Hive setup to remotely monitor the temperature and to turn the
heating on prior to each visit.
I'm currently paying for a landline plus ADSL broadband at a total
cost of about £250 p.a. (and the ADSL will go up in price when the
current contract ends). We have an Evening and Weekend calls package
for "free", but daytime outgoing calls are made on a mobile, and E&WE
calls could easily be, too. We get a few incoming calls - but most
people seem to have inclusive packages which include calls to mobiles
these days, so our friends shouldn't be too upset if we got rid of the
landline, so that they had to ring a mobile instead.
I'm wondering about getting something like this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/D-Link-DWR-...016ZWXYXG?th=1
to provide 4G-based broadband. Since it has ethernet ports, it should
be possible to connect the Hive hub - which can't use WiFi - to it.
Do any of you have any experience of getting rid of a landline and
using something like this?
Are there any gotchas when it comes to data SIMs? For example, PlusNet
told me in an online chat that their SIMs can be used in phones or
tablets but not routers - but I'm not sure that the agent knew what he
was talking about.
Since our data use is fairly small - no more than 1 or 2 GB per month
- something like this looks promising:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Mobil...HDPN1WZDP6N5AM
since the data doesn't expire for 24 months. There is a reasonable '3'
signal at the flat. Any reason why I couldn't use one of these SIMs -
and then top it up or replace when the data is used up?
I would have thought any of the mobile wifi hotspots would do, look for
huaweiÂ* mi-fi dongle.You are not worried about 4G.
But most mi-fi dongles I have seen only provide wifi. You can't connect
to them with ethernet - which is what the Hive hub needs. Is this one
any different?
Power off a USB adapter put a "Three" network free 200MB per month SIM in.
https://3g.co.uk/three-data-reward-sim
200 MB per month should be plenty to check the Hive etc .
If you actually want to use the wifi when you are there just put £5 top
up on.
We try to spend one week per month at the flat throughout the year,
which is when we use our 1 or 2 GB of data. I would prefer something
which I can set up and leave to get on with it - rather than faffing
about with monthly top-ups.
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Cheers,
Roger