3 Mobile Broadband Review Part 2

If you remember where we finished off Part 1, it was all a bit of a let down as I couldn’t purchase any credit to test the modem out as Three’s site was down, if you don’t remember please check out Part 1 of the review here.

Anyway this time I plugged the modem into the USB port, the software automatically started up, I hit connect and boom straight onto the Three HSDPA network. I logged into my Three account and bought a pre-paid credit of 1 Gig of data for £10.00.

Simply top-up by £10 to receive 1GB of Data, £15 to receive 3GB and £25 to receive 7GB each top up lasts for 30 days, not monthly as some carriers offer and if you run out of credit you just top up again, no high costs per mb when you have used your allowance.

I visited a few websites and the speed was excellent without any delays it was actually better than my ADSL connection at home, but that’s not too hard as I live out of the city and my connection is unreliable at best.

I decided to carry out a speed tests and below are the average results after three tests.

So far I am very happy with the performance of the modem and provider, I use software in my day to day job that requires a fair amount of bandwidth and it works without a hitch either at a customers office preparing quotations or over a coffee surfing the web.

Three mobile broadband gets a big thumbs up if you want to use it in city centres and surrounding areas added to that there is no monthly commitment, however one word of caution, in rural parts of the country coverage is patchy at best so check with Three before you commit to buy.

Disclaimer: The modem and pre-pay credit was purchased by the writer of the review.