And a Good Morning from me

[TheOstrich]

Welcome back, Jan!

[victor]

At last welcome back Jan

[JanB]

Thank you all xx

Vic, when we moved over here, it was meo or meo. Nos is a new one and to try and get the contract changed, even though they are the same company, just wasn't worth the hassle.

The staff have obviously had a major kick up the bottom, as they were all super helpful. Maybe not the first lady, who forgot to put my address on the order but the lad I spoke to next made it all happen.

We even had the post office van here - unheard of

So I now have three routers, one sim

[Workingman]

Jan, why does the router need a SIM? Is it to make Wi-Fi mobile calls from your phone or is it just that your broadband is on 4G or both?

[JanB]

No idea WM. We all have to have sim's here.

Okay, the sim is for the satellite, as they call it here. Without that, I cannot get the internet. My phone has a different sim, as it's a different thingy. Six year old normal, make calls, texts phone. None of your internet jobbies.

And the call people all said they would put more data on my phone, to make up for not having internet, until I told then what phone I had

Makes sense?

[miasmum]

Hello Jan, lovely to have you back

[Workingman]

Jan, one of my sisters from another mother lives on a remote farm up in the Pennines. They do not have a satellite dish but a mobile signal aerial and a router with a SIM for 4G broadband, everything on the farm is then Wi-Fi.

They can make Wi-Fi calls when at home to save on the phone data package and ordinary calls when out and about - their phones have SIMs. I can do the same with my Vodafone router when at home even though Smarty is my phone network.

Your new router might be 5G ready which will make things a lot faster once it comes online.

[JanB]

Thank you xx

[JanB]

I've checked the new router and it's 3/4g. We don't have fibre here yet, although up north they do. <They had to, when we had the massive fires up there a few years ago, as all the over land wires just melted.