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Trying out Irish Mobile Broadband

2^nd January 2012

Over the course of a year, I end up visiting Ireland a few times, so I decided to invest in a Meteor PAYG broadband stick to see how I'd get on with it. For €20, you can get a 30-day pass with 7.5 GB downloading capacity, a more generous offer than you'd get with some UK mobile networks (T-Mobile really comes to mind here). Signal strength was strong wherever I tried it too with 3G being available so long as you are in the right place with EDGE being the lowest that I got otherwise. Download speeds are good too so it turned out to be a good investment of €30 to get the Huawei E173 USB dongle (I had a T-Mobile one of these before that no longer works, so I am keeping an eye on reliability with this one; though the design seems a little different, I am getting OK so far) and €20 of credit that comes with it. After all, anything's better than the punitive roaming rates that UK providers charge.

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