There’s been a couple of interesting threads regarding 3 mobile broadband recently: one on Urban75 forum the other on boards.ie. In the Urban75 thread, ‘miss direct’ writes that she’s thinking of signing up to 3 mobile broadband using the half price deal as she’s an existing customer. She asks if 3GB a month will be enough, and also how fast the service is. ‘ChrisFilter’ reckons 3GB is “enough for browsing” but maybe not for downloading music or streaming TV programmes, while ‘Tricky Skills’ of London tells of his 1GB a month deal, claiming “It’s great for me… Connection is good and the speeds are fine for browsing”. If you’ve got any experiences to add, head on over to Urban75.

Meanwhile on boards.ie, ‘Glenman’ reports that he’s getting a great 3G signal despite living “in the middle of the hills near the Bluestack mountains on the back road between Glenties and Ballybofey”. Sounds charmingly rural! He asks whether 3G is transmitted by most of the masts in Ireland, to which ‘sesswhat’ links to a map on the 3 website which can be used to check coverage anywhere in the country. When conversation turns to Vodafone’s coverage ‘Jimmycrackcorm’ follows this up by writing “3 have the best 3G coverage in the country” Have you any experience of using 3 mobile broadband in Ireland? Let the members of boards.ie know what you think.