Review: T-Mobile Broadband

T-Mobile Broadband Review

In a nutshell: T-Mobile isn't the fastest or the cheapest of the 3G mobile broadband networks. However the basic price of £15 per month does include free WiFi Hotspot access and the USB modem or USB modem stick is provided free of charge. The network covers around 85% of the UK population and includes access to around 1,000 Wi-Fi hotspots around the country.
Best buy: Mobile Broadband Plus (£15 per month); or Mobile Broadband Extra (£30 per month).

T-Mobile offer mobile broadband using either a USB modem or a USB modem stick. Both are compatible with a PC or laptop running Windows XP or Windows Vista, and with an Apple Mac. The USB modem provides a download speed of 1.8 Mbps, and the USB modem stick is compatible with HSDPA offering speeds up to 3.6 Mbps. This makes the T-Mobile service slower than Vodafone and about the same as 3 Mobile.

These prices are for a 24 month contract - the prices for a 12 month contract are slightly higher. The price also includes WiFi Hotspot access. The USB modem is free, whilst the cost to buy the USB modem stick ranges from £0 to £19.99, depending on which price plan you choose.

The T-Mobile network currently covers around 85% of the population.

T-Mobile Broadband Consumer Reviews

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Average rating from 108 reviews:

Reviewed by Paul from Ilford on 2nd Jul 2009
This broadband is so bad, constant disconnections, slow download speeds, downloads cut out before they have completed, fup 3 gig even though nothing downloads properly, the thought of another 10 months of this made me decide to get a landline and alternate broadband, so now i'm paying fo two broadband providers. AVOID !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Reviewed by Jellicoe from UK on 2nd Jul 2009
Location: Haywards Heath T-Mobile,your only choice of getting mad. Faster,safe,no side-effects.
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Reviewed by S Evans from UK on 30th Jun 2009
T-Mobile have blocked hotmail over the last few weeks. I called them this evening, and the operator told me that access has been withdrawn as they do not have an agreement with hotmail in place. Performance is ok in most city centres, but outside it does not seem to be so great. I have a friend at work who seems happy with Vodaphone.
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Reviewed by Lucy from England on 30th Jun 2009
Once you have used up your 3g per month fair use policy allowance you cannot use your broadband until the next month even if you offer to pay! Waited on 3 seperate phone calls 1 1/2 hours last night to be told "computer says no". No matter what you do the next time i can use my mobile broadband is in 4 days when my next voucher will start - so I am now a 3 mobile broadband customer BOOO to T MOBILE
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Reviewed by sid from england on 30th Jun 2009
I am after mobile broadband as i am always on the move (no the tax man isnt after me...yet!) but ive checked the reviews of most providers...Tmobile , 3, and all the reviews are terrible. So im after mobile broadband but according the the reviews they are all horrendous! Does this mean that theres no point buying mobile broadband and i simply cant so my work on the move? we put man on the moon (supposedly) in the 60's and early 70's....got mobile phones and computers that can do just about everything short of making your breakfast and walking the dog...so with the amazing advances of technology...are we incapable of having a roaming mobile broadband technology? Im now as stuck as a sticky insect stuck on a sticky bun! I need mobile broadband but it seems no one can provide me with a service quicker than a tortoise in a 100m hurdles sprint with a customer service that makes forrest gump look like a rocket scientist and as useful as a one-legged policeman! Whats going on? [Editor's comment: "we put man on the moon (supposedly)" - blimey, you are a skeptic! The reality is that a lot of people have poor experiences with mobile broadband. This is partly due to the nature of the beast, i.e. variable coverage depending on where you are, partly due to the technology being in its infancy, and partly due to salespeople making absurd claims for the product. The best thing is to find someone who uses it in the same locations as you, and find out their experiences.]
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Reviewed by Sean Bradley from England on 23rd Jun 2009
Terribly slow. Advertised as being "Upto 4mb" speeds. I have never received more than 1MB. Downloads cut out half way through, but still count towards your data transfer limit. T-Mobile rudely rang me at 8:30am to tell me I'd gone over my "3GB fair useage policy". When I explained to them the download cut out, forcing me to RE-DOWNLOAD the entire file, it was like talking to a brick wall. Horrible customer service. Even accused me of stealing at one point. I've never been so offended by a company. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.
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Reviewed by Craig from UK on 23rd Jun 2009
DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS CONTRACT! - i regret signing up for my 24 month contract every day, my download speed is minimal all day long and i cannot stand to be on the web for long as it takes half an hour to just read/reply to a few emails. my previous isp was fine but i was enticed by the cheap price of £15 pm with 50% cashback over the 24 months, so great deal but it doesn't work! i no longer use the internet at home because it is too stressful waiting to see if a page will actually download within 10 minutes and i can't get out of the contract. Beware!!!!
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Reviewed by Kris from UK on 19th Jun 2009
Who ever reads this sight remember that all the postings for reviews are from 2008. TMobile has been putting over 2 million pounds a day into extending and strengthening its network over the last two years and is now....according to people in the industry (YouGov, pc pro and mda to name a few) and well as the millions of satisfied t-mobile customers....the network is consistantly the stronges and widest reaching network in the UK. Check other, more up to date, websites for a more objective and current reflection of just how good t-mobile is today and where it intends to take mobile broadband by the first quarter in 2010.
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Reviewed by Joe from UK on 25th Oct 2008
I have been using the T-Mobile service for some 6 months now and receive 1.3 Mbps all the time. I heard that a good site to test your connection is www.thinkbroadband.com as it gives a good indication of mobile performance. The added benefit is that I can use it not only at home but all over the country.
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Reviewed by mick from uk on 24th Oct 2008
what a load of rubbish internet is slow keeps going off i was downloading the other night on for two hours then went off cant wait for contract to end
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Reviewed by Dave from UK on 22nd Oct 2008
Absolutely Awful. I had Ok reception for the first 3 weeks, then suddenly I never got 3G reception and rarely get more than 1 bar for GPRS. It took 30 mins to load up BBC website the other day. Unfortunately I have signed up fro 18 months - worse waste of money ever. I have used Vodafone in the past and should have stuck with that. Please avoid this like the plague. TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY. Does anybody know how to cancel? Has there been any consumer advice on this as the product does not meet anything it says it does....
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Reviewed by Luigi from Manchester on 21st Oct 2008
T -mobile Broadban = world's best annoying thing in the world
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Reviewed by Ryan from UK on 21st Oct 2008
Couldnt agree more, this dongle is useless. i constantly have to disconnect and reconnect nearly every time i try to load up a page. compared to what is advertised this is nothing short of a disgrace. my dongle was stolen a while back and tmobile was insistent on 100quid to replace it. after weeks of phoning them one guy advised me to complain online to get this 'speciall number' to ring, which their not really meant to give u- can u believe that?!!it led to me getting a replacement for free, so im gunna try dig tht number up to try send this junk back. worst thing i ever bought, no exaggeration
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Reviewed by Grant from Scotland on 20th Oct 2008
LOcation:- St Andrews Scotland Provider :- T Mobile Service:- USB mobile Broadband (150k if your lucky). Well heres a few facts for you about T Mobile,They lie to make you buy a package that they say is good and fast,well it was very good for the first 3 months then the stuff hit the fan.I live in St Andrews Scotland and have a t mobile usb broadband stick the usb stick was delivering over 2 megs a second at any time,then the students come back to the town and the population doubles and guess what every student want a usb stick for there lap top,So now instead of 2 or 3 hundred people using mobile broadband theres 2 or 3 thousand and guess what T mobile didnt even increase there bandwidth they just shared the exsisting band width for all users,my speed at times is less than 150kb and this is an excellent signal area according to T mobile and its a 3 g area.Any way the other reason its slow also is that T Mobile dont even own the 3g rights in St Andrews it belongs to the company 3G who let T Mobile have a small peice of there Bandwidth.I spoke to T Mobile and they said it was due to bad weather sometimes and that it was acceptable to wait 5 minutes for an email to download what a lie an email of text should open in a split second.Any Way if your thinking of getting a mobile usb stick in St Andrews go directly to 3 G as they are the only ones with 3g Capability that actually belongs to themselves 02 T mobile all suck a share off 3G.Quiet Frankly dont go to T Mobile because they are full of junk and they will lie threw there teeth to make you take up the contract and when your signed up they couldent give a toss about you as they have you bent over the desk and are felching you dry from everything you have in your bank account. T Mobile might think this is harsh but this is the truth from someone who has been with this service and lives in St Andrews and knowes the real score.
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Reviewed by steve from uk on 20th Oct 2008
Rubbish. Signal drops after a few minutes. Speeds so slow it makes me want to gouge my own eyes out. I'm on a 24 month contract as well. they ought to be ashamed, calling this a service.
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Reviewed by JJ from UK on 19th Oct 2008
Has anyone had any luck returning this piece of rubbish? I got one 3 days ago and Carphone Warehouse won't have any of it when we tried to return it. Is there a 14 day return policy?
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Reviewed by neil philbin from england on 19th Oct 2008
when i went to a t mobile shop and asked about t mobile broadband, i was told it ran at 3.6mb/sec in any part of the country....what a load of rubbish! the only time i ever get a consistant speed above 1mb/sec is between 2 and 6 in the morning! during the day im lucky to get over 200kb/sec! how can they get away with this? ive signed up for a 24 month contract, and when ive complained all i was told was, 'well if enough people write and complain, then they might do something about it' it is robbery, i urge anyone whos thinkin about gettin tmobile broadband...DONT DO IT!!!!!
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Reviewed by Simona from uk on 19th Oct 2008
A total waste of money! I wish I accessed this site b4 I signed up for months. It's only good for emails....forget about watching videos or listenning to music! Absolute lots of rubbish!
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Reviewed by Lewis from Manchester on 18th Oct 2008
DON'T BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Reviewed by john from uk on 17th Oct 2008
terrible!!!!!!!!!very slow download speeds. Keeps locking out. I wish I had never joined. 2 whole years. They should be ashamed!!!!!!!
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Reviewed by lauren from UK on 16th Oct 2008
I got my USB mobile broadband stick about 2 months ago, and have had nothing but grief with it...im gutted i signed a 24 month contract for a thing that doesnt work! It only works intermitently... at odd times of the day - mid morning and late night, try using it at lunch or 5pm when people get of workand you have no change. Upload and download speeds plumet and it will take up to 3-4 mins to load a page on hotmail or facebook! when I got it i was assured that I would be able to use it to access BBC Iplayer/ ITV & 4OD to watch tv I missed etc. To start with it seemed to work with these programmes at the odd times when I had a decent download/upload speed, however last night i logged on to Iplayer to watch last weeks episode of the Resturant, only to be told on screen that I couldnt watch it as i was outside of the uk, (i wasnt i was sat in my front room at home in York) the bbc suggested contacting my ISP - so i dialed 150 only to be told that this was becase as of yesterday all of T-mobiles servers had been moved out to Germany, meaning my IP address ws now German and does not qualify me to view sites that require an english IP address.. . to top it all off... Its not due to be fixed for another 4 - 6 weeks MINIMUM!... My Recommendation.. DONT GET ONE!
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Reviewed by Phil from UK on 15th Oct 2008
Got the 3GB package, at first was slow, and it downsamples images on web pages. But worse was to come, it disconnects and just jam's up. Took it back, got a new modem and now the connection is rock solid. Seems the older modems are not so good. There is software you can use to stop it downsampling images on web pages, but it's a pain to have to run it. The speed is pretty poor, upload 200-300 kb/sec and download 20kb/sec. Thats bit's not bytes! Can't really download files as it's too slow and the server your connecting to will probably disconnect you after a while as it's thinks your not there anymore it's that slow. No way you can play online games, and VOIP like skye does not function, there is simply not the bandwidth to do it. My summary, I've bought it so will carr yon using it. It's not good and it's not a replacement for ADSL, once you get over that it's pretty cool to have internet access with out a phone line and anywhere on the move. I'm going to say it's average. But as more people use it the network will improve and the speeds and coverage will improve, so maybe in a year or two it will be worth it as a replacement to ADSL, but for now don't be fooled.
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Reviewed by Martin from UK on 11th Oct 2008
Em... I have managed to get on the internet no problem... Hotmail won't open. MSN won't connect. They want my credit card details to allow me to view YouTube and MySpace. What.have.I.done... I'll report back if this gets better... Martin Strange
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Reviewed by paul from newcastle, england on 9th Oct 2008
as an internet provider, for the price its a bit steep, but then i got this device not to use at home. i use it for work out and about round the country. its fantastic, sure it can run slow depending on the coverage and yes its a small alowance £gb fair-use policy. but i didnt get it for watching you tube, i got it so i can email my colleagues when im out and about. send sales figures back to the office and check the football scores when im stopped for a cuppa in some god awful cafe somewhere. last time i checked they sold it as "mobile" broadband
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Reviewed by David from UK on 6th Oct 2008
I work in a hospital during the week and live in on-site accommodation which has a wi-fi gateway. I wasn't getting brilliant performance and paying £16 a month for it so when T-Mobile offered this service at £15, I signed up. What a mistake!! I am getting no more than 56kbps (dial-up speeds) - I was getting 256-512kbps with the wi-fi gateway. I was told the signal here was very good and should have no problems. What lies! I rung to arrange a return but was told to take it back to a T-Mobile shop as that was the quickest way. A 20+ mile round-trip to my nearest store is not exactly inspiring but it's better than coughing up £15 a month for 18 months. My advice: DON'T GET ONE, DON'T BELIEVE THEIR LIES.
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Reviewed by Jim from UK on 5th Oct 2008
I just got this bad boy a couple of days ago and am fairly impressed. I've so far only used it at peak times and have been averaging at around 400kb download and 200kb upload. It's so far only dropped out once. For some strange reason It loads youtube and other streaming websites faster that the home computers cabled broadband but downloading files normally sticks me at 40k/sec. I'm hoping for much faster speeds next week when I try it at a non peak time. My only real complaint is the stingy allowance of 3gb although i've heard you can push that to 4gb before they start getting aggressive about the "fair usage policy"
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Reviewed by jack sparrow from uk on 4th Oct 2008
Imagine having a router with a 2meg dsl connection, then sharing it with 80 of your neighbours, that's what you get with this technology. Imagine the speed!!! I once got 150kbps but averages about same speed as 56k modem, sometimes many times slower
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Reviewed by satellite from uk on 3rd Oct 2008
use in public library, free wifi internet area. it's free. unlimited coverage. only but a test.
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Reviewed by Eden Penketh from UK on 3rd Oct 2008
Average at best, awful most of the time. Constant disconnects are my major problem. Downloads are almost a waste of time unless they support pausing/restarting, which many don't, because you're gambling with whether the connection will hold out. I don't need to explain exactly how irritating losing a connection on a 200mb+ file 99% done. It seems a lot of ports are blocked by T-mobile making online gaming, something promised to me by the sales person as reliable, hard work to even get a connection set up properly. Streaming video buffers at a snails pace for the most part and not at all sometimes. Ironically enough, while I was just browsing on another tab the connection cut out for no reason. Expect a lot of this if you're somehow drawn by these somewhat less than stellar reviews
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Reviewed by Gareth from UK on 1st Oct 2008
Absolutely Useless! As below, it worked well for the first month a year ago now it annoys me to use it!! Its sooo slow, 30 pictures took 2hours to upload to photobucket! How are T-Mobile getting away with daylight robbery?!?!?
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Reviewed by Mira Sorensen from England on 29th Sep 2008
I really wish I had done some actual research before buying this useless piece of plastic in July. There's no point trying to watch videos online unless you like staring at a screen that says 'buffering' for a very long time. Even with HSDPA and signal strength at 97% it drops to 0.2 kbps and then to 3G, or even worse GPRS where you can't do anything, not even email. Trying to attach a file to an email takes so long I have to give up on it. I'm sick of staring at 'Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage' and other error messages. I'm on the £35 a month contract, if anyone knows how to get out of it, please post it on here, I'm desperate! If I happened to lose the USB stick, or if it somehow got damaged and I refused to purchase a replacement one, would that get me out of the contract? Also I wonder if contacting Trading Standards would help, as I signed up believing it was broadband as advertised, but have since discovered that is in fact dial-up?
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Reviewed by Lisa from milton keynes on 29th Sep 2008
I purchased mobile broadband from t-mobile. Since i brought it , it has never worked i keep getting a error message saying unable to connect to the phone book entry . They have not resolved the issue so i have had to send it back . Very poor service received
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Reviewed by Jade from UK on 27th Sep 2008
DO NOT buy this, had no end of problems right from the beginning, bad service and more importantly the slowest internet I have ever used in my life
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Reviewed by James from UK on 26th Sep 2008
I think this is great speeds are really quick Great product. Negative sometimes have to go to GPRS when 3G is down which is not as good but still ok Brill invention
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Reviewed by Oli from Derby, England on 23rd Sep 2008
Absolutely useless, barely runs anything, Youtube doesn't work, messenger barely works. Pages take -forever- to download, and I have 100% signal in a "Very good" high-speed area. Go figure. Thank god for the 14 day returns policy, goodbye T-Mobile, I certainly will not miss you. If you want a more entertaining way to get broadband, go to the dentist and ask them to pull out all your teeth and give you a root canal, it's about as much fun, and will probably be about as useful as trying to get this pile of junk to work.
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Reviewed by Scott from Barnsley, England on 21st Sep 2008
I use T-Mobile broadband via my phone (LG KU990) which supports HSDPA. Most of my browsing is done using the phone itself however I do use it with my laptop when I travel anywhere or if my broadband is down. The fastest speeds, ironically, tend to be achieved when I'm at home. I run a speed test now and again and the results range from 300kbps up to 1500kps. Even at the slower end, internet browsing seems fairly comfortable. At work, in what is quite a remote business park, the speeds are a little more modest, maybe averaging around 100kbps. The HSDPA signal doesn't appear to be available here so it seems I'm getting the kind of speeds you would associate with a GPRS network. Still, it's fairly comfortable at picking up emails etc. I've used the service on a train with my laptop with varying degrees of success. On the East Coast mainline the signal appears to be quite steady through most of Yorkshires, when you start to go through the less populated areas it doesn't work well at all as would be expected. As you approach London the signal is strong, although there are quite a few tunnels that cause the signal to drop occasionally. This is ofcourse not entirely a problem on the East Coast mainline as National Express offer free wifi on the trains anyway which is normally quite robust. In terms of the usage limit, I was previously on the 'Max' plan but switched the 'Plus' option when I could as I only use maybe 200Mb each month at the most. If you are using this as a complete replacement for your broadband service then the 'Max' option may be necessary. You have to remember that this technology is really in it's infancy so you can't expect it to work 100% of the time with the latest developments of the internet, such as Youtube, which rely on a robust cable or ADSL service.
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Reviewed by donald mcleane from uk on 17th Sep 2008
Did a speed test last night. With five bar reception at 8pm i got 11kbps, a 59 sec youtube clip took 57 mins to stream. If you like chucking cash away, buy it. I downloaded an ati driver which downloaded at an average of 3K a sec. AVOID like the plague.
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Reviewed by Paul from England on 13th Sep 2008
IF YOU READ THIS AND STILL BUY IT YOU ARE A FOOL!. DO NOT BUY T MOBILEMODEM/DONGLE . Sat here waiting 15 minutes to load up sky sports web page. Roughly 30kbs , no way of downloading anything. I downloaded a short 5 min clip and it took 5 hours to download.This maybe ok to access emails up and down the country but thats it. MY PHONE IS QUICKER THAN THIS.
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Reviewed by Wez from London UK on 12th Sep 2008
I was so excited when I signed up for T Mobile Broadband. Speed was great for the first 3 weeks and then it dropped! I can't use p2p applications, cannot watch youtube clips, cannot watch any movies online at all and some websites take like 10 mins to load! I've called T Mobile on numerous occasions and all I hear is the network is congested in my area and it will be fixed within 'a couple of days'. I'm trying to get out of the contract. Better stick with BT or Virgin broadband. Such a shame!
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Reviewed by J C C Regis from UK on 9th Sep 2008
It is unbelievably slow. My home broadband from pipex (up to 8Mb/s) has loaded a 4:40 minutes video from youtube in 2:12 minutes on my desktop computer. At the same time T-mobile broadband running on my laptop couldn't load the same video faster then it played and it took 7:37 minutes for the video to play to the end. I've tried with other videos from youtube and the result is the same. I received my "web'n'walk" stick today and I'll be sending it back tomorrow.
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Reviewed by Shane Hall from Scotland on 9th Sep 2008
I bought the T-Mobile modem stick three weeks ago and it worked fine sppeds were good and downloads were quick. Now Two weeks later I can't use it at all.The signal says its full but I am unable to access the internet or anything and I have had a replacement modem as it could have been faulty but the same thing happned with that. I would diffinelty not recommend it to anybody! It would say that 3 Mobile Broadband is the best as i have had that in the past.
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Reviewed by SteveH from England on 8th Sep 2008
Slower than dial-up - typically 45kbps. Frequently drops download connection whilst maintaining upload. Also prone to dropping connection completely. (I live 800 yds from Gatwick airport and my GPS is no good either!)
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Reviewed by Janette from UK on 8th Sep 2008
I have only had my USB stick for about 3 weeks, for £30 a month an it is the biggest waste of money you can find as the signal is down all the time so i am paying for nothing!
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Reviewed by Alicia from England on 31st Aug 2008
I bought this back in november 07, maybe december. It's the worst internet ever, I can't do anything with it and I'm now stuck paying out £30 a month for another year and a a half. Has anyone has success in cancelling it?
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Reviewed by phil from newcastle on 30th Aug 2008
teresa, i just got the usb stick too...£35 a month for 10gb allowance and 7.2mb/s downloads cap...in a high signal area with GPRS(green light) running with speeds of around 30kbps...dial-up was faster than this!
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Reviewed by Teresa from UK on 29th Aug 2008
I just got the T-mobile broadband USB stick - having been told I lived in the area with best reception - and it's rubbish. It goes from 30 kb/s to 350 kb/s to 100 back up to 250 then down to 10 up to 450 and then 0 in the space of 20 seconds. Utter rubbish. Thankfully I have 13 days left in which to return it, which I will do.
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Reviewed by jamie from scotland on 29th Aug 2008
the modem i thingk is amazing my laptop isnt great but when i am streaming media i'm getting download speeds of 1000-2000kbps the reason it doesnt download all the time at top speeds as it doesnt need to be unless you are media streaming ect it does the job and can be wathing a video on you-tube within seconds and unless you are downloading illegal films that the modem shouldnt be used for then it will be fine
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Reviewed by Fez from Manchester on 21st Aug 2008
Speeds are not the greatest but still getting 300-400 kbps downloads in the evenings which i think is reasonable. Signal is consistent with very little disconnections. Much better than orange (constant disconnections) and no nasty sting when you go over your limit (e.g. 3). Haven't tried vodafone but very happy with this so far.
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Reviewed by Gazzy from Manchester on 14th Aug 2008
Trust me don't get this, the speed's are no where near as advertised, i get an average of 100kb/sec usually lower and im in a high coverage area with 100% signal on the modem, it's just that theres so many users it's slow as hell, it also disconnect's regularly so it's impossible to use IM or anything where you require a constant connection. If you want to get out of your contract phone them explain it isn't fit for purpose as it doesn't reach the advertised speed's and you want out, say you're just gonna cancel the direct debit and not paying them a penny and also return the dongle, that's what I'm doing anyway.
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Reviewed by Steven Littlewood from England (UK) on 10th Aug 2008
I got this about 2 months ago, I had the guy in the shop check 4 postcodes and was advised it works well in all 4 postcodes. As it happens there is no signal at all in 3 of the postcode and the signal in the 4th is almost useless. Even when I do get a connection over 3G or HSDPA the speeds are like old dial up. Avoid this product likes its going to kill you, it is all but completly useless. Plus if you want to get vista support for the USB modem you have to trawl through Forums as there does not appear to be any offical support offered.
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Reviewed by matt smith from uk on 10th Aug 2008
WARNING!!!!please do not purchase this item worked good for first 3 months from feb 08 this year however now hard to get connected if at all .very slow when connected cuts off from time to time spoken to technical team countless times have no answer now trying to get out of contract stupidly signed up for 24months pay to get connected through landline because this is rubbish!!!!!
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Reviewed by paul from uk on 10th Aug 2008
I too have had the same prob as Reviewed by martin barlow from uk on 7th Aug 2008 using t-mob. I too live in a good signal area, and have tried eevery mob broadband apart from orange, and found that 02:- kept diconnecting and made my pc crash when trying to shutdown 3: worked well for a day or so that speed just dropped so i sent it back current t-mob- has worked ok ish since I had it, but lately i havenoticed that the speed is slow bout is generally got from watching vid and using p2p and speeds dot seem to be affected and only the browsers are slow to load but as i said p2p works fine and so does messenger but browsers are painfully slow at time epech firefox if anyone can resolve this please e-mail me paullovesshivz4eva@hotmail.com just to add t-mob is the only one in my experience that stays connect %99.9 and even its slow at times to load pages downloading vids through realplayer is rapid, so i think there might be a prob with the internet apps. if people experience probs with speed or crappy connection issues go in store and ge a replacment as it sometimes the device, because i think if its over used it can get hot, maybe i duno.
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Reviewed by martin barlow from uk on 7th Aug 2008
i had this last november when i moved home, bt wanted 150 quid to turn line on, so i thought i'd try this instead. i signed up for a 24-month contract. yes, i'm an idiot!. it worked perfect during november and decemember with constant speeds of 1.2 to 1.3 megs at any time of the day. then new year came and it stopped working, i could no longer download any file without errors, get any complete web pages. it stayed like that for about 4 to 5 weeks, then t-mobile went down completely, i coulnt even use my phone. the next day it was back, and it worked again, propely. things went well till march when speeds dropped to about 500k at peak time, then 300k in april, by july speeds had dropped to less than 200k at peak time and now its dropping to about 28k. it seems every phone mast can only cope with about about 4-6 users at a time, and they are selling millions of these things. ive now got to pay 35quid a month for the next 15 months for a service i can only use at 4am. i had to get my modem unlocked and now i use a 3 sim card with pay as u go. thats starting to slow down to but at least im getting 500k at peak times. do not sign up for a contract under any conditions to any mobile network. get prepay, then at least u can change networks.
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Reviewed by Aniya from Italy on 7th Aug 2008
I already had the dongle (an italian vodafone one) I purchaed a t-mobile sim and for the past 2 days haven't even been able to get a connection, i phoned customer service who then put me through to the technical staff, I waited for 15 minutes only to then hang up I got fed up of listening to their music and not speaking to anyone to sort my problem out, great service!!!
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Reviewed by nicola from uk on 6th Aug 2008
t mobile broadband is pathetic , toooooo slow and pictures n txt r all comressed so need to use SHIFT & R all the time , not happy at all written to them , no avail , awaiting resopnse frm consumer advice.
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Reviewed by flordeliza from uk on 5th Aug 2008
this is sooo rubbish. i can't wait to get out of my contract. i wished i had read more reviews before i agreed to the contract or i wish i hadn't waited after fourteen days before actually calling them to cancel. i called them to ask if i can cancel it and i was just told, i'd have to pay £350 cancellation charges...whoof, it's like paying for the entire contract! does anyone know how to get out of the contract????
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Reviewed by malcolm from uk on 5th Aug 2008
I started with T-mobile broadband on 12 July. Three days later I went back to the shop to complain. Despite living in a strong signal area I couldn't get access to various web pages and there was anyway a persistent disconnecting problem. They gave me a new dongle. Since then absolutely no problem, so is there a manufacturing fault with some of them?
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Reviewed by Mick from uk on 4th Aug 2008
useless would love to know how to get out of contract
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Reviewed by Simon from uk on 31st Jul 2008
just wanted to let ya know despite all that you have heard i have had no problems good speed great service from english speaking people
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Reviewed by Ana from UK on 27th Jul 2008
It is real junk. I was told connection is stable, well in fact i keep getting disconnected evry now and again. It is a real pain when you phone customer services to be put through the engineer who then says that he cant fix it.. Network is down.. Can it be down everyday???
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Reviewed by steph from uk on 27th Jul 2008
Ive had this service for 3 months now, and i can't wait to get out of my contract. For the most part its on 2G, and constantly disconnecting. Ive phoned customer service and they told me basically not to rely on this network, im desperate to get out of the contract. Reading these reviews everyone seems to have exactly the same problem as i do, but when i phone t mobile they say problems r unusual. Dont get it, its rubbish!
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Reviewed by Jeff from England on 22nd Jul 2008
I've used it on the train a few times and aprt from one journey where the signal disappeared for a while ( I assume it was a poor reception area as it was deepest middle england) it's been fine. I really only use it for surfing the web and it's plenty quick enough. Therefore maybe I'm not a as heavy a user as some of the other people here. HOWEVER on my vista latop when I go back to using my home wireless broadband I cannot connect to internal network and not the internet. Last time I had to do a system restore to resolve this. NOT GOOD!
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Reviewed by karen from uk on 19th Jul 2008
was very aprehensive after reading reviews, but should not have been. i know its "early days" but its brilliant -with download speeds well over 1000 kbs showing on the easy to read statistics graph,although it was a bit slow the other night. It is capable of over 7mps, which is better than most mobile broadbands. It stays connected 99% of the time. Obviously i live in an area with good service so i dont know how it will fare when away elsewhere. have played online games but not watched full movies as yet. so all in all i am most satisfied.
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Reviewed by chris from uk on 17th Jul 2008
ive applied for my mobile broadband as an upgrade in November. i got the black stick (7.2kbps) one the next day with a delivery charge. i used it 4 around 3 hours with a fast service. then the problems start. it kept disconnecting with device disconnected popup. switching to gprs worked with no problems but very slow. i spoke to t mobile telling them about my problems. they wanted some connection details time of disconnections... had a list of 100ish. didn't feel like telling them what i got. so i looked in the device manager and found that the device wanted my maximum power at 500ma. seamed that my device needed more at hspda. in the modem tab i got alot of information about the device actions and times. i copied and paste the findings on to notepad... had around 500 connections in a week. spoke to t mobile again and sent the details off by email. no luck finding the problem... coping with the slow speeds i got i decided to try again. i got in touch with a very helpful lady and she knew what the problem was by the details ive given. it was a power issue in the end. they did exchange the device to the white one. it is more stable online and i still have issues with it slacking and not responding. 16 months 2 go with 3.6 kbps.. if im lucky 2 get 1kbps if u have trouble with the device disconnecting my advice is to get a power usb hub with a power supply. this is not practical when on the move. error codes 633 613 720 619 got a few more carnt remember them
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Reviewed by kate from UK on 16th Jul 2008
was called up on Monday by T mobile (my mobile phone provider) pushing me the web n walk package. Checked with them that it would be fast enough for me to watch videos etc online and was assured it was. Arrived today and tried watching video via bbc iplayer. After 20 minutes it had only played 5 minutes and the rest of the time spent buffering. Signal strength regularly at 0%. Fortunately as it was a cold call sale Ive a cooling off period of 14 days - which means there was no problem this evening when I called up and said I want to cancel. Off to read other reviews now to find out which one to choose
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Reviewed by Karleen Christopher from uk on 16th Jul 2008
I have just read all these reviews I wish I'd done it before I bought and imprisoned myself with a 24 month contract. I have had all the problems listed and all from the very beginging. I dont use my modem any more and am just waiting for the contract to end. However I am considering as one review said to get in touch with trading standard in order to see if I can get out of the remainder of the contract on the basis that the product did not work as advertised. who knows if all of us do it it may help. I'm sure there are other people out there with the same problems but have not written a review either becuase they have not come accross this page to do so, I only found it by accident or dont feel that there is anything they or anyone can do. Will be back with any news from trading standards.
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Reviewed by Anthony C from UK on 16th Jul 2008
I advise anyone reading this, DO NOT PURCHASE THIS WORTHLESS PIECE OF PLASTIC. I have had this device now for around 4 - 6 months, it disconnects randomly, when asked about this a T-Mobile rep. advised me to "use it wisely" great help! Signing an 18 month contract was the worst mistake I made. I am stuck now paying for this useless thing. DO NOT BUY THIS!!!
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Reviewed by Daniel D. from UK- London on 12th Jul 2008
I personaly have a terrible experience with t-mobile web'n walk. its been 6 months since the purchase and the all thing is a real nightmare. the device is not working properly limiting my access to internet, wasting my time with technical support for hours, no one as an answer, no one really helps, and no one knows what should I do. I took a 24 month contract and i am terribly sorry of making the choice to purchase t-mobile web n walk. another thing if you wan to purchase a mobile broaband, first ask for the network coverered by he device.... they tell you it works every where, but they forget to tell you that in your area the network might be problematic, so before you take any contract make sure the network offered is working in your area.
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Reviewed by James from UK on 9th Jul 2008
Reading the other reviews I can see the frustration, but at the same time I think it's a configuration thing. I was really disappointed when first using this as I had realy difficulty getting a connection, and once connected maintaining that connection. However, on using the dongle on my girlfriend's laptop, it works fine pretty much 100% of the time at high speed. So now I'm investigating what the problem is with mine. My girlfriends laptop is much older than mine and about half the cpu/ram etc. My advice to anyone is to try it on another laptop if possible and start to investigate the settings of your system. [Added by James on 13th Jul 2008: Actually, I retract that statement. Although it runs better on my girlfriends laptop, whenever downloading a file of any size it disconnects and I have to reconnect. I don't see why I'm going to have to get a download manager because of crappy hardware. I'm not going to even try with the t-mobile support as they've been useless in the past. I guess I'm just going to have to fork out another 50quid+ for a better 3g modem. I'm really annoyed that T-Mobile would distribute such a poor standard of hardware.]
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Reviewed by donna from uk on 9th Jul 2008
i have found t mobile to be as useless as a chocolate as tray, they have no idea why my windows live messenger wont run with them as the server,first they tell me try new version 8.0,then older version 6.0 why wont run along side the other please is there any one at t mobile that know whats going on 4 weeks on the phone to tec support and still none the wiser
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Reviewed by Barry McMillan from England on 6th Jul 2008
While connected this modem works well, however, for no reason it disconnects itself at random and you have to reconnect which is a pain while in the middle of something.
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Reviewed by R Phillips from Beds UK on 1st Jul 2008
Being out in the country, my broadband landline service is around 600-700kps at the very best, so after reading reviews and checking the very fastest service was available localy I opted for the T-Mobile'dongle' The service is very fast locally and about 2mbps (speedcheck varified- not the 7.2mb stated but thats comming!). The connection will apparently upgrade as the new faster service is rolled out - so check on the t-mobile site for your local speed Eventually much higher speeds are planned ( so it says in my New Scientist) NB IMAGE COMPRESSION IS A PROBLEM BUT ELIMINATED VIA THE T-MOBILE ACCELERATOR DOWNLOAD WHICH WORKS FINE ON MY XP LAPTOP BUT CAUSES NETWORK PROBLEMS ON MY VISTA LAPTOP IF I GO BACK TO MY HOME WIRELESS NETWORK. If it were not for the built in compression (pixelated pictures) and lack of ability to turn it off, I'd give this 6 stars- the additional download/plugin fix is a not entirely satisfactory solution to what is otherwise for me a blisteringly fast service straight out of the packet!!!
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Reviewed by carl from east midlands england on 30th Jun 2008
ive been using t mobile dongle for a month now and im not happy with it. Pictures (facebook, friendster) are blurred. The speed is annoying. All i can say dont subscribe on this product total waste of money and time.
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Reviewed by Ja from UK on 30th Jun 2008
No way is it broadband. Msn doesnt work. Average speed is 5kb/s. Constant connection issues. Disconnects. annoying.
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Reviewed by Issi from England on 24th Jun 2008
Awful. Slow, lose connection constantly & it's driving me nuts. waste of money & i'm on contract.
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Reviewed by paul from uk on 23rd Jun 2008
i went to carphone warehouse and purchased t-mobiles mobile broadband @ £15 per month their checks were approved they gave me the usb dongle and told me of a promotion they had going at the time where i get £75 store credit i went home to try the service but i could not log on i then waited until 3pm the following day to no avail i decied to contact t-mobile one of their call center staff informed me that the service had been cancelled but gave no reason and then told me i had to return the items back to carphone warehouse when i got there they contacted t-mobile to see what the problem as their system showed that everything had gone through with no problems when they talked to t-mobile they stated that the service was cancelled due to the mobile phone contract i had with tmobile as i wasnt allowed two phone lines. due to the fact i have to return the items back to carphone warehouse i now have to pay them the cost of two of the 5 items i received under the free instore credit i had been given as i had opened these items i find this to be a really poor service form t-mobile and will certainly advising people not to use this company for mobile broadband
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Reviewed by Jan from UK on 22nd Jun 2008
i have a recently bought 7.2 mb/s t-mobile dongle and, in a words is is PANTS! fine for the first few weeks though not a patch on expected speed, at best ever say 1 mb/s and then, slower, slower, slower and now either nothing or sud dialup speed of yesteryear. im curious as to how an awful lot of folk are experiencing the same thing: nearly adequate service to start and then a steady progress to f-all! youd be forgiven in suspecting a conspiracy. i note they say if u overuse downloading they will slow your connection down after a couple of warnings but this seems like pre-emptive action...
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Reviewed by Sophie from UK on 19th Jun 2008
The worst broadband ever!! Stay away from this! It worked ok at the begining but a few months later it just keeps disconnecting maybe like a few hunderd times an hour! It's worse than dial-up! it can't even sustain a normal download! I can't believe I upgraded this month (£44 a month for a 12 year contract) in the hope it would improve. I can't wait for my contract to end, I will never come back. In fact, while writing this sentence I got disconnected again! Total waste of money - and time!!!
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Reviewed by Lou from England on 12th Jun 2008
DO NOT EVEN CONSIDER BUYING THIS. Will give you high blood pressure. Drops off all the time. spen hours just trying to access hotmail account. Frustrating and annoying. Arrrggggggg!
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Reviewed by rhiannon.p from uk on 7th Jun 2008
In response to james miller review, t-mobile does not chatge for a sim card, and all mobile networks will charge more for not paying by direct debit, i ahve been with orange vodafone and 3, which all add the extra 20%. Granted the connection does drop now and again, but i totally understand why, just like the reception can drop on your phone. Overrall i think it is very good, especially for a laptop on the go well done t-mobile
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Reviewed by chris from uk on 2nd Jun 2008
hi i have the usb modem and it was the most unreliable internet i have use in my life afta all the money you pay for it it is easier to go home and use broadband it is so slow and every 10 minits it keeps dissconecting and it has millions of errors if i was you i would go and get it somewere else cause when u first have it .it works fine then afater a month you will have millions of problems
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Reviewed by Graham from UK on 28th May 2008
Not happy as have now been trying to sort out the problems since Nov 2007. Speed at times is only 5kbps !! even with a full 3G signal and its worse on the new H network. I have been told they are now going to share capacity with Orange. This will not solve the "Compression" problems. Dont bother with the Broadband accelerator program. The web pages are still broken. They now claim that the Web n Crawl is only an add on to my phone package and not part of the contract even though it is writen down as the only reason for upgrading to a new phone in the contract.
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Reviewed by guy from london on 26th May 2008
I was great at first because it is portable ad is sooooooo much better than dial up! But then I had connection problems, the T-mobile staff replaced my modem and now it's fine!!!!!! RECOMMENDED!!!!!!!!!!!!! BY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Reviewed by Graeme from Tyne & Wear, UK on 21st May 2008
got the USB web'n'walk few months ago as a backup. have just moved house and can't get proper broadband for few weeks so been using the t mobile service as a stop-gap. worked ok, bit slow at times when the 3G connection kept dropping out, but fair level of service for what i expected. however, tonight, from about 6pm, nothing. i can connect to web pages, sometimes, but all that displays is text - no images at all. instead i get the missing image, red cross in the corner placeholders. it keeps dropping from 3G to GPRS and then disconnecting. after 3 hours of trying, i rang t mobile tech support who told me their cell sites are a bit overloaded due to people using 3G services to watch the football match.. (even though it's on TV!) and as a result, all i can do is wait a few days to see if it calms down again! not great when i'm relying on this service to work!
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Reviewed by abdul from bradford on 20th May 2008
i bought the dongle in december 07 and was working like a treat but the last 2 weeks it has starting to drop connection. spoken to tmobile and they did some tests. they didnt work! then i found out my self that only 2g (dial up) worked which is so slow! it keeps dropping off 3g network! then suddenly it starts working for a while then off again. its driving me nuts! ill give them another week then im gona cancel and try vodafone!
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Reviewed by Nita from England on 20th May 2008
Looks like Im not the only one having problems with getting connected. This is really annoying me now, my connection keeps going down I spend half the time at my laptop just trying to get a connection and when I finally do, it goes down! I really wish I'd never got it.
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Reviewed by Colin Erskine from Scotland on 18th May 2008
My data card came as a promotional deal with a Vaio laptop. It's an Novatel Merlin XU870 Wireless Broadband Express Card. I stuck the SIM in the slot and away I went. I had 30 days for free and it worked a treat. This was August 2007. I was getting +300kbps download, up to 1MB/sec at unsociable hours. So I signed up and until recently have been happy with the freedom it provides. Sitting on the train reading your mail & RSS is a treat. Lately though there has been a noticeable deterioration in service. The connection constantly drops out. When its on, its on and the speed is fine but this intermittent connection is very frustrating. This connection issue started a few months ago and has got gradually worse. T-Mobile customer service have been friendly and helpful (business contract) but unable to resolve the issue. They showed me how to select UTMS by picking the little arrow to the right of the T-Mobile Communication Centre (TMCC) start button and this helped for a few weeks. Recently I have been unable to raise a connection with TMCC and found Vista Network and Sharing Centre could although the connection dropping was much worse. Tonight TMCC worked and all seems well. All said I couldn't recommend T-Mobile Web&Walk in the Aberdeen area considering the problems I'm currently having. I presume the network can't handle the recent uptake and I have no idea what actions are being taken to remedy the situation. I would like to hear the inside track from a T-mobile employee.
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Reviewed by David from UK on 17th May 2008
My mobile broadband with t mobile has been excellent from the moment I plugged the dongle into my usb port! Great coverage, in fact I travel all over the country and have never yet not had reception on it or lost a connection. Yes, it is slower than home broadband but that was to be expected. There's nothing I can do on my home pc that I can't do now sat in the middle of a field with my laptop! I love it, wouldn't be without it and can't recommend it highly enough! Freedom!!!
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Reviewed by D.May from Unitied Kingdom on 7th May 2008
I'v found T-mobile network straight forward but feel they don't do enough for the customers who have been with them for a long period of time & have stayed loyal to the network which i have. More offers on deals because you've been with T-Mobile network for longer than 10 years, plus deals on accessories etc... They make money either way so why not give something back & give back to the customers who have been loyal throughout the years.
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Reviewed by James Miller from uk on 18th Apr 2008
DON'T USE T MOBILE if you don't want to pay by direct debit. The cheapest mobile broadband t mobile do is advertised as being £15,for now.It's £15 if you pay by direct debit but if you want to use a safe way to pay i.e. with a credit card they will charge you a 20% surcharge for using your credit card,so that's £18 a month.They will insist on doing a harmful-to-your-credit-score credit check on you.When you receive your modem you will also see on the despatch note that you have been charged £6.99 for a sim card and £5.95 for delivery,so that's £30.94 for the first month on your credit card.You will also discover that after the first month t mobile will then refuse to take any more money from your credit card for subsequent months and demand that you pay by direct debit.Two points arise from this,one,there is no reason to do a credit check if they refuse to take money from your credit card and demand you pay by direct debit,two,your distance selling cooling off period has long since expired and you are now required to complete a 2 year contract paying by direct debit. Don't use t mobile if you don't want to pay by direct debit.
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Reviewed by Rachel from Glasgow on 14th Apr 2008
T-mobile broadband is like Portugese police = Useless! Ive had it for a week and im using my phone as a modem and so far ive had nothing but problems with it. If you finally manage to get connected expect to be at the computer all night because it is SO slow!! Customer services arent any better , sure there nice people but they dont have a clue!! Downloading is out of the question and MSN rarely works. If i had a tenner for everytime my laptop said 'the programme is not responding' id be a bilionarie. A warning to all you folks who are considering getting a contract wh t-mobile...DONT DO IT!!!!
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Reviewed by Nick from SE London on 9th Apr 2008
I believe its the USB modem thats rubbish :P dont have any problems using the internal datacard i got for my laptop.
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Reviewed by Dan from uk on 9th Apr 2008
Ihave T-mobile broadban 4 2 months and every day i want to break it because it drives me CRAZY!!! connection drops all the time. sometimes it needs 5 minutes to sing in into the skype!!! come on ond m stuck with it for another 16 months.
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Reviewed by MNR from UK on 9th Apr 2008
When it works it's ok, averaging around 0.35meg connection, although occasionally makes it to 2.5! (But not often) Connection recently is deteriorating to the point that I'm considering breaking the contract. Sometimes can't connect for 30 mins. Often loosing connection, and it seems to have a built in latency making it much slower than standard broadband. For £35 a month I want it to work 90% of the time, not 50%. This will probably be really good in 12 months but I'd avoid a contract tie-in like the plague for now.
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Reviewed by Jonathan from UK on 8th Apr 2008
How Tmobile can get away with describing this as broadband is beyond belief. It is at best slow and constantly loses connection. On trying to reconnect, many hours have been spent viewing message error 619. Many more hours have been spent on the phone to "Technical Support". I am now compiling my 4th diary of events in 4 months for the inept t-mobile support staff to investigate. I cannot believe I have signed up to this for 24 months. I am off to trading standards, this is not broadband !
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Reviewed by benji from uk on 5th Apr 2008
Well - I've had a 'dongle' for 7 months now. The service is fine - it seemed to get a bit busy at Christmas, sometimes dropping but on the whole it's great. The important thing is not to compare it with home broadband in terms of speed. I can do anything with thsi dongle instant messenger, email, web surfing. It keeps me in touch and I certainly wouldn't be without it now.
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Reviewed by craig from united kingdom on 1st Apr 2008
get a t-mobile broadband dongle theyre really good (as butt plugs go) an amasing 3.4 mbps data transfer rate (as long as no-one else on the plannet has the cheek to log on as well as you, as you all share a 3.4 gbps connection through a proxy server so wait youre turn) up to 3gb of downloads (as long as you can find 3 gb of stuff that isnt actually rated 18, or you have a cc to prove so (?dont i actually have to be 18 to sign the contract in the first place?) and as long as it stays connected for long enough you may have to disconnet and reconnect up to 340000 times) get a free dongle (has to be a 2 yr contract tho or pay a hundred quid for a useless piece of plastic. has to be 2 yrs as who'd sign up for another year given the choice) wish i could still get cable
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Reviewed by Tim from UK on 29th Mar 2008
In a word, dismal. Using the dongle, very slow speed and drops connection.
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Reviewed by James from England on 29th Mar 2008
Apparently like most other people I only wish I'd done some more research before signing up for Web n Walk. It drives me completely and totally up the wall. I have been using the internet since the early days and I'd say this is probably equivalent to dial-up in terms of average speed. Sometimes it's quick but then the connection will die / fade and then you sit there for five minutes waiting for it to re-connect. It is so frustrating that I have a good mind to sue T-Mobile for wasting a large part of my life as I sit looking at the USB manager *praying* for some kind of activity. Please save your sanity and don't buy this product (I believe T-Mobile and 3 use the same network).
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Reviewed by Dmitri from England on 26th Mar 2008
I have had the T-Mobile broadband Service since February 2007. until recently i would have said they had a good speed stable reasonably fast connection. I have used the Card all over the UK and found the Broadband service to work well in most areas (t-mobile also seem to have 3g coverage in some local small residential areas where no others have 3g coverage yet. Sadly in the last month the service appears to be overloaded and I have had connection problems when good 3g coverage is available. Hopefully this is just temporary. If this improves I would recommend the service as its very cheap and you wont get charged more if you do go over your limit. also the customer Service is superb...lets see if they can sort out the temporary issues.
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Reviewed by Varsha from london on 21st Mar 2008
i wish i read these reviews before purchasing this tmobile broadband! Bought it 2day and is absolutley slow!!!!
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Reviewed by C C Cook from UK London on 21st Mar 2008
Expensive rubbish! I am stuck with an 18 month contract paying £29 a month because I wanted a free PCMCIA slot card. I travel between Eastbourne and London and have never had a fast or reliable connection. It just drops out after a while and I end up having to reboot. The signal strength is worse on the coast but I expected that. I bought an ariel booster for the card and even though the signal is better the connection is not. As was said before, can't wait until till the contract ends!
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Reviewed by Richard from Southampton on 21st Mar 2008
Absolutely unusable for the past 3 months. I've a full-strength 3G signal, but the download speed is often as low as 50kbps, and the connection stalls completely for minutes at a time. T-Mobile tech support are useless.
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Reviewed by CrashMasterH from UK on 4th Mar 2008
While T-Mobile's Broadband is buggy at this point in thime this is due the the coverage of their 3G cell sites. This will not be an issue for much longer as they have recntly done a deal with 3 so that they will be able to use their cell siteas and so they wil be able to offer a much impoved service
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Reviewed by Paul from London on 4th Mar 2008
Absolute rubbish do not buy, i've had nothing but problems for 4 months, can't wait till the contract ends.
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Reviewed by Peter from UK on 27th Feb 2008
It's rubbish. Connection intermittant at best, and often dops connection. AVoid like the plague.
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Reviewed by lkz from lkz land on 21st Feb 2008
t-mobile good. internet not gud:(
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Reviewed by ibrahim from england on 15th Feb 2008
t mobiles best network
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