Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-23 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 23 August 2012 00:41, Anthony Lucas anthonyjlu...@gmail.com wrote: They just want you to buy their tethering add-on and mifi products. It's probably simpler for me to just pay for the damn tethering add-on, but part of me is annoyed at the restriction and wishes to try to bypass it :) I'll

Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-23 Thread Paul Makepeace
The charge is to attempt to mitigate the Tragedy of the Commons which would affect everyone else so just fork over the cash already ;) In practice that all said I've never run into any restrictions with T Mobile but I also don't take the piss so who knows... Written on my phone On Aug 22, 2012

Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-23 Thread Smylers
Chris Carline writes: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Nuno Jesus nunje...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also going to London very soon and I was thinking to order a giffgaff SIM card. If you're going to do that, order via a referral link from somebody already on Giffgaff and each of you get £5

Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-23 Thread Mike Whitaker
On 21 Aug 2012, at 15:48, Nuno Jesus nunje...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also going to London very soon and I was thinking to order a giffgaff SIM card. They seem to have the best prices. Am I missing something? I *have* a giffgaff SIM going spare (they send you one after a while if you're a

Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-23 Thread Daniel Perrett
The charge is to attempt to mitigate the Tragedy of the Commons which would affect everyone else Um, but the people who watch hours of videos on their telephones are the cause of bandwidth problems, not the people who tether their laptops so they can open attachments more easily or run git push

Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-23 Thread Peter Corlett
On 23 Aug 2012, at 07:22, Toby Wintermute wrote: [...] I'll try VPNing back to my shell account and see what happens.. can't be any slower than 3G already is.. IME, this will make HTTP *faster* because it bypasses the bloody awful transparent proxies that mobile telcos insist on using to

Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-23 Thread the hatter
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Anthony Lucas wrote: 3 can be quite good with the traffic detection if it's obvious. I've used all the other real networks over the last many years - from my current t-mobile contract and my orange PAYG with 1ukp/day data addon, think my previous payg option was

Re: [OT] Prepaid mobile plans with data, possibly roaming

2012-08-23 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 23 August 2012 19:43, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote: On 23 Aug 2012, at 07:22, Toby Wintermute wrote: [...] I'll try VPNing back to my shell account and see what happens.. can't be any slower than 3G already is.. IME, this will make HTTP *faster* because it bypasses the bloody