2d ago

I hate Wi-Fi landing pages, you hate Wi-Fi landing pages, and guess what? The firewall also hates landing pages.

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Given how cheap mobile data is these days, why use public Wi-Fi anyway?
- Visited london a few months ago, and my mobile data worked maybe twice for a few minutes during the entire week. Had to use wifi whenever there was any available, and usually they didn't work either.
- because there is no reception inside a huge store. Speaking from experience.
  
  The Czech Republic has pretty good coverage, actually. You can get 2G in garages of shopping malls and 4G on pretty much every train. It is uncommon to come across a paved road that has no reception. However, there is a cartel of telecoms and...
  
  Our median wage is comparable to Poland, not Germany!
  
  I wonder about the data. 2021 was not a long time ago, and €3.55 is just way too high to make sense to me in Slovakia. I'd expect something like €1.50 or €2 instead. And even that just for regular prepaid.
  Anyway, in 2021 I was using Swan Mobile (4ka) for €12/month for 300GB. That would make €0.04/GB.
  They're the 4th carrier which is what's bringing down the price a bit. Unfortunately, even now they still only own a small chunk in 1800MHz, so the speed is low as well as is the coverage.
  It's better now that they have access to 2100MHz and 900MHz from Orange (official FUP 20GB - real FUP is 80GB currently), but the price also went up to €17/month, so €0.057/GB.
  The FUP was officially 20GB for as long as I've used them, but the real limiting was always different. During the 3G Orange access it was throttled after 40GB. Then after 3G shutdown and migration to partial 4G sharing, there was absolutely no limiting for a few months. Then they started to apply it after 80GB.
  This however is not optimal. The "national roaming" as they call it is no longer shown as roaming. Instead the device registers into Orange network natively, thus this data usage cannot be controlled.
  At least on most devices. I specifically bought a phone that supports manual band selection. This "feature" is never advertised and may disappear with an update (e.g.: Samsung devices some time back), as it is just a leftover testing menu that is generally removed. Especially since in some cases it even let's you change stuff like IMEI.

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