teflon

Thought I would pass this on. After Priinet, tried meo. No good for me on Lomas, very poor signal using a portable mifi. Just bought from the UK a Huwei router. Used it with a sim from tescos, worked perfectly. In carrefour yesterday, bought an unlimited sim card, 25euros a month. On the Digi network. Best thing ever. Perfect reception and a very strong signal on the Digi / Moviestar network. Would recommend. No more buffering! Anybody want to buy the ZTE MF920U LTE Ufi originally bought from Meo in Portugal, with a sim card, with about 10 days left on it. PM me.

MKABZ

Jon-Bxl, Priinet have just at the start of the week contacted me re: disconnecting the aerials, which they say will happen at the end of the year. I certainly got a lot more months out of it, lol.
Now to fathom out the best option going forward, I would certainly prefer not to be paying Priinet all year round if I can avoid it. What are people finding works best?
Mary.

pt1188

Thanks for the update, sorry to hear about your unsuccessful Meo experience in Lomas where our house is as well. A couple of follow up questions if you don’t mind:
How easy / difficult was it to discontinue Priinet - did you need to give them a month’s notice and can this be done even if you are not there to return the router?
Did you purchase the Digi sim over the counter from Carrefour in Cartaya, was it a Payg sim and can you just top as and when you need the data? We only visit twice a year so this would work perfectly for us.
Thanks in advance.

keithBT

Hi Teflon, Regarding the Huawai router could we have the exact model number please.
Thx.... Keith

Jon-Bxl

Hi Mary
If you've followed this thread, you will see 2 main options for our kind of usage (non resident)

These are MEO and Digi using the mobile phone network and a router that accepts a SIM to give you a similar experience. You can also put the SIM in your phone and make it a hotspot .. but I personally think that the router gives the best option. You also pay zero for the 'away months' so it should end up being cheaper than Priinet even with the router purchase.

Ive had it with Priinet, they are not paying me the €20 deposit (that I am sure we all paid). They simply ignore mails. I kept the actual contract paperwork and posted contractual text (also translated into English) several posts ago. Im sure the same wording was used for all....

Don't forget to demand your deposit.... But dont hold your breath. The deposit should be paid back even if you switch to fibre, if so carefully check the new wording.

Good luck scrolling this thread, e.g the recent post re Digi. And the earlier re MEO. Note that MEO seems to work well in ME not so well in Lomas. Digi works in Lomas .. but I dont know how well it works in ME.

Jon

SanNico

In case anyone takes the Digi hot spotting route, which would work well for occasional visits, screenshot the apn settings before you cross over to Portugal. Or anywhere for that matter. Every time I go away I have to reset it

Jon-Bxl

UPDATE: Firstly THANK YOU for all the contributions on this thread, that really helped me out. So I thought Id give you the result!

I Installed my MEO SIM (unlimited data) in a new router I bought I shopped around Amazons various EU locations and got a great deal on a 'powerful' TP-Link Archer MR600 AC1200 Cat6 router for 103€ from Germany. Its already easily paid for itself by my non payments to Priinet! I often shop around Amazon sites to get better deals and free postage can apply x-borders.

I bought the free SIM in the MEO shop in VRSA mentioned in the thread. You just pay for the first usage.

I am amazed by the internet performance (so far) and this router has enough punch to go upstairs as well. Its significantly faster/better than Priinets old wireless offering. It should be cheaper as well for us non-residents. I'm glad to be shot of Priinet!!

More details on this post and the various discussions.

Costa Esuri Internet (PRIINET) options

Note that the price has gone up since this post (see the embedded link).

I cant guarantee that you will have the same performance (we are in Marina Esuri), others in ME are also getting good performance.

I did a simple test previously. I forced my mobile to connect to MEO in settings. I used this speedtest... The best one for my usage
www.testmy.net

it sends a package of data and times it once completely up/down loaded. Use say a 25mb packet... If you get a good speed on a phone .. you should on a specialised router with antennas etc. Or anyway I think it gives a good head's-up.

I can confirm that the router is more 'powerful' - faster than my phone.

I am a very happy bunny! (So far) lets hope it works well in the long term, and if not there is another option Digi mentioned on this thread

Jon
PS I heard that Priinet was taken over ....




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