Because i like the mobile phone i have TTfone Lunar TT750 but there a problem i don"t know if i have press something when someone rings me i cannot hear them been thinking of taking it to have it check out .?
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Your right,the Cloud is not necessary. Just convenient, secure and trouble free, works in the background and is accessible from anywhere. But takes a fair bit of getting the head around.
John
I far from being a ludite, in fact the opposite since I've been messing around with electronics and computer systems since the late 60s and maybe its this that just wont let me trust putting anything sensitive into a cloud storage system that I have no control over. I encrypt locally anything sensitive and I know it would be encrypted once again on say MS Onedrive but I still can't let go of my data.
I do use them occassionaly but only for sharing stuff with friends and family, such as photos, recipes etc and these get removed after I know they've been read or downloaded.
So I keep backups locally and if we go away for an extended period of time I give the backups to friends or family to keep until we get back.
I do use them occassionaly but only for sharing stuff with friends and family, such as photos, recipes etc and these get removed after I know they've been read or downloaded.
So I keep backups locally and if we go away for an extended period of time I give the backups to friends or family to keep until we get back.
I fully understand and recpect people’s caution with regards the storage clouds. I have masses of stuff up there but nothing that I would consider as sensitive. However. I do use a password app which syncs across my devices, so therefore it follows that that data is floating about the ether in the same way. I just trust that when they tell my that it is encrypted to some mega standard that this is true. But then I also have to trust that my bank look after my data. And Amazon, Virgin, Octopus. etc etc.
The industrial stealing of data is a very big worry. Lots of companies have had leaks, BA comes to mind. There is also industrial espionage. I try not to think about it!
John
The industrial stealing of data is a very big worry. Lots of companies have had leaks, BA comes to mind. There is also industrial espionage. I try not to think about it!
John
It is the synchronisation across accounts which does not seem to operate, (or we haven’t got the hang of). There is a setting to share with family members but it has limitations. I think the easy answer is to all use the one account.
The only downside o that is personalisation of apps etc may be lost if a rebuild is needed (but perhaps not). I think a way around that is to use iTunes to do individual back ups. But I rather hate iTunes!
John
We are on a site less than a mile from Weston Super Mare and about 1/2 mile from M5. It is raining and so Internet very bad and signal is not consistent as keep dropping out and have been unable to access anything. Not sure why signal should be so bad.
Strangely enough phones come up with 4G and 2 bars and sometimes even 4 bars intermittently, but no Internet. Rebooted my phone still the same. Really weird. Good job I store my data on USB so can still access the data.
Very frustrating as have to go off site to connect. Not sure if this post will arrive?
Strangely enough phones come up with 4G and 2 bars and sometimes even 4 bars intermittently, but no Internet. Rebooted my phone still the same. Really weird. Good job I store my data on USB so can still access the data.
Very frustrating as have to go off site to connect. Not sure if this post will arrive?
If the signal strength is marginal, rain makes it even worse as the droplets scatter the signal
Digital and almost line of sight to transmitter plux it is very flat around here? They are thinking about 6G but in over 80% of the UK you are lucky to get 4G! Where we live we get 0G!
Have we missed out then on 5 G? Most times I’d settle for a reliable 3G or 4G fir calls and messages when I’m out, as data usage when away from home is minimal and at home it’s WiFi.
Just been checking details of the place we are going to on bonfire weekend they provide WiFi good job my dongle is only 4G on EE
Both our phones are 4G and even if we had 5G phones still no signal. I think the government should have thought about forcing providers to upgrade 3G coverage across the whole of the UK before they even allowed providers to purchase licences for 4 & 5G to be bought. Maybe then we would all have decent coverage right across the UK.
Latest update now using my Doro 6620 latest micro sim card it contract free 7GB for £10 unlimited minutes and texts so far very happy with it the other mobile phone keeping it if needed .
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Latest update now using my Doro 6620 latest micro sim card it contract free 7GB for £10 unlimited minutes and texts so far very happy with it the other mobile phone keeping it if needed .
Not good value, I could recommend these people. And you only contract for 1 month. I am in my third month and find the service excellent.
John
Hi John that might be good deal but does the micro sim card come already cut because the person had to put it in for me and it contract free and i prefer PAYG ten pounds usually last me three months
It comes as a 3 size card, you just push out the required size. I thought your post %#138 you meant it was £7 per month.
As OC said, the “three” network.
I chose it because Marj is on Virgin. Which could be Vodafone or O2. As they are transitioning. I wanted us to be on different networks for a better chance of coverage. Right now at Honiton, I only get 3G but she gets 4G. So we just use hers for the hot spot.
John
i might go back to the O2 Shop and ask them to put this one in it The Classic in the micro sim card size 3p a minute 2p text 1p a MB it PAYG
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Hi John that the problem i have been getting you push out the required size well i did that and it would not work . so that why i took to a O2 Shop and let them do it
I am with Three and pay £20 per month for unlimited data, calls and texts so it seems to be the same deal. Unfortunately cannot use it at home due to poor signal. Here in Somerset signal also poor.
It's not just about price but also about service. If you go to the main mobile operators such as EE, Three then thats the service you get. If you go with the cheaper Mobile Virtuale Network Operators such as Tesco, Asda, Smarty,etc then you need to check what provider they are using to ensure you get best coverage.
Equally, you have to be aware that MVNO's that may sit on the back of EE for example can at anytime change their provider. For a good while we used a PAYG from Asda because it was cheap but also used EE which is one of only two providers we can get a signal from at home - sometimes. Then Asda decided to switch to Vodafone as provider and we could not get any signal from them, so we switched to someone else.
My phone can accomadate two sims so I can use EE and Three which are the only two services we get at home and in most places we visit.
Equally, you have to be aware that MVNO's that may sit on the back of EE for example can at anytime change their provider. For a good while we used a PAYG from Asda because it was cheap but also used EE which is one of only two providers we can get a signal from at home - sometimes. Then Asda decided to switch to Vodafone as provider and we could not get any signal from them, so we switched to someone else.
My phone can accomadate two sims so I can use EE and Three which are the only two services we get at home and in most places we visit.
I use O2 and only pay just under £13 a month. I get unlimited texts, more minutes than I need and enough data to get me through a three week holiday. I possibly could save a bit on that but the sums involved do not justify the effort.
FWIW: I use Plusnet, which uses the EE network.
Rolling monthly charge so I can quit more or less anytime. £6 per month. Unlimited calls and texts plus 4Gbytes data.
Key point is it works reasonably well at home so no need for unlimited call plan on home phone.
Rolling monthly charge so I can quit more or less anytime. £6 per month. Unlimited calls and texts plus 4Gbytes data.
Key point is it works reasonably well at home so no need for unlimited call plan on home phone.
We are both on O2 network and get unlimited minutes and texts plus data but we are on PAYG and top her phone up nearly every two months £10 me every three months same price
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