don't understand what the difference is to just plugging in your phone and using that as data instead of having a separate SIM just for the car?

Anyway, what provider and deal is best for continental driving to have continous driving with roaming?

32 minutes ago, TonyTonic said:

don't understand what the difference is to just plugging in your phone and using that as data instead of having a separate SIM just for the car?

 

Depends if you want to use your phone's data plan... or if you want the car to have access to services when you don't have your phone (or you're not the one in the car!). Note that there is an embedded SIM for the 'remote access' services, it's only the 'infotainment online' stuff that needs you to provide and pay for a connection.

 

33 minutes ago, TonyTonic said:

Anyway, what provider and deal is best for continental driving to have continous driving with roaming?

 

Any of them will give you a SIM that can roam for no extra charge in the EU these days... well, until the end of the month anyway :-)

I am planning to come to the UK from Bosnia for a holiday and we will be renting a car so I will need data for google maps. I can't use my allowance from B&H as not in the EU. What sim card can I pick up on arrival in a shop or get delivered to our hotel? I was looking at these preloaded sim's https://www.tigermobiles.com/blog/preloaded-data-sim/. There is Three sim for £10 and 1GB which will be enough for me. Are Three good in UK?

Three are good, yes, I have a Three data SIM in my Kodiaq. Coverage appears to be as good as any of the other providers.

 

 

 

 

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7 hours ago, Aaron32 said:

I am planning to come to the UK from Bosnia for a holiday and we will be renting a car so I will need data for google maps. I can't use my allowance from B&H as not in the EU. What sim card can I pick up on arrival in a shop or get delivered to our hotel? I was looking at these preloaded sim's https://www.tigermobiles.com/blog/preloaded-data-sim/. There is Three sim for £10 and 1GB which will be enough for me. Are Three good in UK?

Three are a solid network here in the UK. I use them in the UK and abroad. In fact, I got stung with a £40 roaming bill from Bosnia earlier this year from Waze. £6 per mb!

 

That 1GB / £10 deal is pretty good. Are you hiring a car that has a SIM slot or is this for your phone? If it's for your phone you can get 2GB for £10 from Three as a PAYG bundle that has minutes and texts as well. 

5 hours ago, silver1011 said:

Three are good, yes, I have a Three data SIM in my Kodiaq. Coverage appears to be as good as any of the other providers.

Thanks

7 hours ago, silver1011 said:

Three are good, yes, I have a Three data SIM in my Kodiaq. Coverage appears to be as good as any of the other providers.

+1

On 30/04/2018 at 20:29, TumnusCat said:

Would this be a decent deal? I have no idea how much data I could expect to use per month?

 

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F253570154461

 

Link doesn't seem to work, I've just bought an EE card from Ebay. £7.49 for supposedly 500Mb month for 12 months so 6Gb in total. Not convinced as having registered it seems to be a standard £10 data top up card with 2Gb data some calls and txts that lasts just a month so think you have to be careful when purchasing, for the small amount involved too much hassle to take it up with ebay. Also found that EE coverage is awful where I live, though their coverage map says I should be getting 4G in and outdoors it can hardly manage a bar outside. I also have a Giff Gaff Sim that runs on 02 and that seems to work very well. My phone on Vodafone also works well.

17 minutes ago, SurreySlowCoach said:

I've just bought an EE card from Ebay. £7.49 for supposedly 500Mb month for 12 months so 6Gb in total.

That sounds too good to be true. 

 

Not much hassle to do dispute via PayPal, just depends how badly you feel it was missold. Although 2GB for £7.49 not dreadful overall.

Use GiffGaff SIM. Don't worry about any of their goody bag packages, my pay as you go data costs me pennies each month.

15 hours ago, TumnusCat said:

Use GiffGaff SIM. Don't worry about any of their goody bag packages, my pay as you go data costs me pennies each month.

5p a megabyte. So that is fine for ultra-low usage. Although you may as well use 1p Mobile.

 

If you start using upwards of 100mb though, that isn't good value at all.

Edited 25 May, 20197 yr by ethereum

1 hour ago, ethereum said:

5p a megabyte. So that is fine for ultra-low usage. Although you may as well use 1p Mobile.

 

If you start using upwards of 100mb though, that isn't good value at all.

 

If you’re using less than 100mb, you might as well use the completely free 3 SIM. 

2 hours ago, MrTrilby said:

 

If you’re using less than 100mb, you might as well use the completely free 3 SIM. 

Sent off for one last night as I suspect the EE sim I bought off eBay isn't going to last longer than a month and the coverage is dreadful where I live (odd just 3 miles south of the M25 in Surrey), the free 200mb on 3 should be ample. Await to see what coverage is like, I had a 3 phone some years back and while coverage was great in populated areas it was poor away from towns but I expect it's improved since then, fingers crossed.

I have the 3 SIM in mine, but never use it.

 

In the early days I appreciated the improved live traffic accuracy, but since moving to Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in conjunction with Waze, I no longer use the inbuilt sat nav.

 

The icon seems to spend as much, if not more time red, than it does white.

On 08/01/2019 at 21:48, silver1011 said:

Should be, a few of the comments on similar threads suggest 150-200Mb per month.

 

I had trouble registering just now so asked them to register for me via their Live Chat. As way of an apology they credited the card with an extra 3Gb. More than ample now.

 

 

I've also had trouble registering and unfortunately the persons I've spoken to on live chat have been of no help. I've been told that you have to top up the card before you can register for free data.

No trouble registering the Three Sim and getting the free data. In a week I've used 2Mb so I don't imagine I'll ever use the 200Mb unless I start reading the news feed on the display. Have found the Three Sim works well (as do Vodafone and O2 but not EE) so I'll stick with it. I have the SIM in a Huawei E8372 which is a USB hotspot, the only advantage over using the hotspot on the phone is that I don't have to toggle the phone between hotspot and wifi, I was always forgetting to change back to wifi when I got home so using up the meagre data allowance on the phone. At the moment I'm pushing the stick into a usb when I get in the car which is as much effort as using the phone hotspot but intending to hardwire in a usb for it to live in, hopefully ignition switched but maybe that's another question (already using 47 for the dashcam).

I Believe if you get a BT Sim and use it you have access to all their Hotspots  likewise if you have their home broadband   wether or this can be set up on the Car i just dont know

Right guys I have just fitted a blackvue 900 to my kodiaq all hard wired also has the power magic so it monitors the car battery whilst parked. I have the dash cam connected to my home WiFi but want to know if I got a SIM to put in. Will the SIM slot be live to connect my camera to it when parked away from home. Just the camera send notifications if anything happens but needs internet to do it.

 

I believe the sim and car wireless network are only on with the ignition.