How's Three network?

Tombi!

Planning on getting a Xperia P with either o2 (my current network) or else three. It'd be mostly for internet and gaming and o2 can be really slow or maybe it's my old samsung spica from two years ago.

Is three any better with their internet?

cookie1977

get a free pre pay sim and test out the signal where you live, work and play. That'll tell you. For me signal was great although I did move to meteor for price.

Tombi!

The only problem is I dunno if I can unlock the phone manually (since I'm buying it from o2/three). And I haven't had an newish phone in about two or three years.

cookie1977

test the signal on the device you already own or borrow an unlocked phone

Tombi!

This might sound completely odd but nobody I know has it unlocked.

Is it possible that my phone is just too old? Since even on my own wi-fi it's sluggish.

cookie1977

You don't need the xperia to test the signal. What mobile have you now?

Tombi!

cookie1977 wrote: »

You don't need the xperia to test the signal. What mobile have you now?

This one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_i5700
But they called it a samsung galaxy over here.

cookie1977

Yep that'll do. Get that unlocked if it isn't already, from o2. Get a free three pre pay sim and pop it in and see how strong the signal is where you live work and play. You want good 3G signal if you like using the internet.

Tombi!

Alright cheers, I'll see if they'll unlock it for me.

Aire

I both live and work in the city centre, and I found that 3 Mobile had a really lousy internet speed, really slow and clunky. Switched to O2 and all is well now

Kenno90

I live and work in Dublin and the reception was fine for calls and texts, Internet on the other hand was either fantastic or crap.

I often travel to the country and as soon as you leave the city it drops to nothing , it'll take an hour to load a webpage.

But as soon as you get to a town it'll pick up , though only just.

I moved back to meteor because they have better reception, if only they had the data allowance

ED E

South dublin

Matt Bauer

Overall 3 appear to have the widest 3G coverage in Ireland, but unfortunately it isn't universal yet. When there's no 3G available, you will be using Vodafone's 2G network instead, which is painfully slow for data.