3G on the New IPAD

navag

Anyone else having issues trying to get 3G connectivity on the new IPAD?

Bought a Meteor pay as you go microsim on Saturday and the IPAD could not connect. Called Meteor 3 times where it was finally decided it was a faulty SIM.

Got a new SIM this morning and still the same issue, cannot connect to Meteor.

It may possibly be a bug in IOS 5.1, seems people on macrumours are experiencing the same problem.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1344948

I would be interested to hear if anyone has 3g working on Voda, o2, H3 or Meteor on the new IPAD

Thanks

jkb_dub

Mine's working fine, am on three. Swapped over and it worked immediately.

navag

thanks for the feedback, I might try 3 if I cant get Meteor working in the next few days

Conjob83

jkb_dub wrote: »

Mine's working fine, am on three. Swapped over and it worked immediately.

What plan did you use on 3? I'm thinking of going with them when i pick up an iPad. Thanks

bkehoe

No problems with mine either; have had 3, O2 and Vodafone Sims in it.


Conjob83, if you're going for occasional usage with 3 you can get a 500MB data bundle for 5 euro and you can also queue them up so a new bundle starts when the old one expires based on time or use of the allowance.

So what I do is the following;
Day 1; top up by 20 euros thus earning 'all you can eat data' for 1 month.
Day 30 (note, do not add the bundle on day1 as it'll over-ride the free unlimited month of data); buy 4 x 500MB data bundles from the 20 euros of credit still in the account.

End of month 5; repeat above process; thus 20 euros gets 5 months of data.

The bundles can all be added online from 'My 3' as well as topups making it ideal.

jkb_dub

Conjob83 wrote: »

What plan did you use on 3? I'm thinking of going with them when i pick up an iPad. Thanks

Paying 20 quid per month on the active plan. Need more than 1gb per month.

shakedown

bkehoe wrote: »

No problems with mine either; have had 3, O2 and Vodafone Sims in it.


Conjob83, if you're going for occasional usage with 3 you can get a 500MB data bundle for 5 euro and you can also queue them up so a new bundle starts when the old one expires based on time or use of the allowance.

So what I do is the following;
Day 1; top up by 20 euros thus earning 'all you can eat data' for 1 month.
Day 30 (note, do not add the bundle on day1 as it'll over-ride the free unlimited month of data); buy 4 x 500MB data bundles from the 20 euros of credit still in the account.

End of month 5; repeat above process; thus 20 euros gets 5 months of data.

The bundles can all be added online from 'My 3' as well as topups making it ideal.

This sounds like it would suit me. What kind of sim card do I ask for? Prepay broadband?

bkehoe

shakedown wrote: »

This sounds like it would suit me. What kind of sim card do I ask for? Prepay broadband?

No, I think you should just get a standard MicroSim for an iPhone. Reason is that the 500MB bundle is intended for 'on handset' internet use and the mobile broadband bundles are larger and thus more expensive.

I'm fairly sure that you wouldn't be able to add the €5 bundles on the mobile broadband sim but I may be wrong there...

You can, however, add a mobile broadband bundle onto the standard sim so if you ever did need more data you can just add it on.

leemaree

Last fri I got an ipad with wifi and 3g. Would i be able to use the 3g in it without paying a bundle? And I can't use 3g of my phone as it is pre-pay and it's an iphone and won't allow it on pre-pay.

sammyano

Please can you respond to my questions - cheers

bkehoe wrote: »

No problems with mine either; have had 3, O2 and Vodafone Sims in it.


Conjob83, if you're going for occasional usage with 3 you can get a 500MB data bundle for 5 euro and you can also queue them up so a new bundle starts when the old one expires based on time or use of the allowance.

Question - What sim are you using, normal sim or the micro sim card?

So what I do is the following;
Day 1; top up by 20 euros thus earning 'all you can eat data' for 1 month.
Day 30 (note, do not add the bundle on day1 as it'll over-ride the free unlimited month of data); buy 4 x 500MB data bundles from the 20 euros of credit still in the account.

Question 2 - so basically, if I pick up a sim card from 3 today and then topup by 20 euro, then 29 days from today I buy 4 x 500mb data (5 euro), which will come off the 20 euro topup I made, so if am correct - how do you queue the start and end of the data bundle and lastly, not sure I follow the part of end of month 5, how do you get 5 months of data, is it based on 500mb per month?
cheers
End of month 5; repeat above process; thus 20 euros gets 5 months of data.

The bundles can all be added online from 'My 3' as well as topups making it ideal.

bkehoe

sammyano wrote: »

Please can you respond to my questions - cheers

1) A MicroSim. Just pick up a PAYG iPhone Microsim.

2) The data bundle commences the instant you buy it (thus why it's important not to buy it during the free month of data after topping up). The next bundle will commence the instant the preceding one expires (due to depletion of the 500MB or expiration of the 30 days validity). So assuming you use no more than 500MB per month you will have 5 months of internet for €20.

navag

So I returned the meteor micro sim and was refunded. Bought an O2 micro sim and it worked straight away!