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Post by fidobsa on Apr 4, 2014 10:37:22 GMT 1
I now have my house but there is no signal with my Tele2 mobile phone. The seller has advised me to use the Tomato network. I looked on the Tomato website but could not see if they do a dongle for mobile internet. There is a phone line to the house but I won't be living there full time for at least another year so it might be expensive to have a landline internet contract for part time use.
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Post by gmh on Apr 4, 2014 11:56:08 GMT 1
I think Tomato operates on the VIP network, so you might want to look into a VIP internet dongle as Tomato don't have one.
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Post by fidobsa on Apr 5, 2014 11:28:17 GMT 1
Thanks for that. There is also a dongle from a firm called Bonbon, do you know which network they use?
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Post by rene78 on Apr 13, 2014 6:29:35 GMT 1
We had trouble with our t com data card in our I pads. Now we have a homebox from ViP and it works great.
It works on a simcard and you'll get Internet and a homephone with this homebox.
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Post by fidobsa on Apr 13, 2014 7:23:39 GMT 1
Thanks for that but most of it I don't understand! Is it something like a Wifi router but one that picks up signals from the mobile phone network rather than a phone line? If so it would be useful to me as I've been thinking of getting a tablet device as my Sony laptop is past it's best.
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Post by rene78 on Apr 13, 2014 20:16:39 GMT 1
Yes it's a wifi router wich has a simcard in it. The sim works on the mobile phone network.
We having two ipads, one iphone, one android phone and a laptop working on it. All on wifi, all at the same time.
no landlines.
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Post by keepsmiling on Apr 14, 2014 12:43:52 GMT 1
Rene78, how much do you have to pay for it if you don't mind me asking. Is it cost effective to keep it going for only 6 months only?
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Post by rene78 on Apr 15, 2014 20:07:01 GMT 1
You can only make a contract with VIP for one year. The costs are 76 KN per month
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Post by usplitu on Apr 16, 2014 14:24:13 GMT 1
Hi Rene78 Do you know can you take a 'holiday' from the VIP box contract ? I'm with T-com for my landline and can take a 6 month 'holiday' from the account every twelve months. However, it's much more expensive than your 76kn unlimited, closer to 275kn if memory serves.
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Post by fidobsa on Apr 16, 2014 17:45:27 GMT 1
I'm not sure why I was advised to go for the Tomato sim card as I don't get a signal at the house! It goes onto roaming and connects to Vodaphone Hungary. I don't suppose mobile internet works on roaming? On the other hand, perhaps this homebox is more sensitive than a normal phone and can manage with weaker signals?
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Post by rene78 on Apr 16, 2014 18:10:16 GMT 1
Hi Rene78 Do you know can you take a 'holiday' from the VIP box contract ? I'm with T-com for my landline and can take a 6 month 'holiday' from the account every twelve months. However, it's much more expensive than your 76kn unlimited, closer to 275kn if memory serves. As far as i know you can't take a holiday period from VIP. Best you check at your local VIP store. BTW the VIP box is not unlimited it has 7gb per month free. After that you pay something like 15 kn per gb. Most of the time 7 gb for us is enough. |
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Post by fidobsa on Apr 17, 2014 11:21:49 GMT 1
We emailed VIP to see if the Homebox would work in my area. Apparently it would work but be very slow because we don't have 3G:
"....Speed ​​connection through Homebox device if the EDGE network is up to 220 kbit / s in download, up to 110 kbit / s in upload.
When scheduling a fixed Interenet over existing infrastructure can choose packages speed:
- To 4 Mbps/512 kbps with the ability to upgrade (to 10/1 Mbps to 20/1 Mbps)...."
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Post by fidobsa on Sept 11, 2014 7:43:16 GMT 1
It looks like my only option for getting internet will be using the phone line, which is already in place. I have no idea who to contact to organise this. Will I also need to have a landline phone contract?
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Post by Carol on Sept 11, 2014 11:18:54 GMT 1
t-com is who you need to contact.
We also tried to get away with avoiding fixed lines for phone and broadband, but we found you just couldn't get the signal (VIP kindly refunded the dongle when it proved useless).
So, now we are tied into an 18 month t-com contract.
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Post by fidobsa on Sept 11, 2014 14:51:29 GMT 1
Thanks Carol. I am with the same company in Hungary but it seems a lot more expensive for an equivalent package in Croatia. I just checked the speeds I'm getting in Hungary and it is about 5 Meg download and about 0.5 Meg upload. I find that adequate but would not want to go for anything slower. It looks like the T-Com package I would need is 266 Kn/month for the first year then it gets even more expensive.
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