I would like to have my Wi-Fi set up for home soon. I bought the apartment, it is currently without Wi-Fi and without a router and now I'm faced with the big question of where. I know from home with my mother that Unitymedia is out of the question for me. Google also clearly shows me that their internet is no good and I experience it myself every day.
Incidentally, I live in Baden-Württemberg.
Since I have been with O2 for many years with a great cell phone tariff and never really had any problems, I'm thinking about getting something there. Now the site tells me that only 16mbits / s are possible for my location:
"Up to 16 Mbit / s is technically possible at your connection address. You always get the maximum possible bandwidth, but at most the speed included in your currently selected product."
The funny thing is that they still give me two tariffs to choose from and one of them has 50mbits / s. Incidentally, it is about the o2 my home tariffs. I would have 10mbit for the S variant and 50mbit for the M variant (if that is possible).
Is 10mbit sufficient at all? I really only need Wi-Fi for my laptop, i.e. Youtube. I don't gamble and don't need anything else. Are 10mbit not enough for this?
I'm a little overwhelmed which provider to use. At o2 I think it's good that you have the option to cancel monthly (of course I then have to pay the router and have fewer advantages), but I still wanted to ask a few experts what they think about this. I'm very very suspicious of comparison sites and do not trust many offers. Customer reviews are most important to me.
In addition, I want to spend a maximum of 30 euro a month and 1&1 eg just demands 50 after a few months and that doesn't work.
By the way, I live alone.
Do an availability test at 1und1. But apparently there will be no more than 16 Mbit. Costs 9.99 / month at 1&1 and 29.99 after one year
With O2, the tariffs are organized a little differently than with Telekom. The lowest tariff goes for only up to 10 mbits while the 16, 25 and 50 options are for the next higher.
What this means for you: with S you get up to 10 mbits, with M up to 16 mbits.
But what is still different between the two: with S you have a minimum speed of 0.3 mbits, with M 5 mbits. And with S there's a traffic restriction of 100 GB (if they are used, you only have a maximum of 2 mbits).
Incidentally, I would do an availability check with Telekom and take a look at the expansion card.
And how do you get the 50 euro at 1&1?
If you can cancel O2 on a monthly basis, try for a month and then decide whether it's enough or not.
Alternatively, you could also use a surf stick for the laptop, e.g.
https://www.alditalk.de/internet-flat-xl
And also check the "Young" tariffs of different providers if you are still of the appropriate age.
But the cheapest thing is to just ask your neighbors in bed. Many allow you to log in with them for a few euro (or baking cakes or caring for pets and watering flowers, etc.) …
So that with an em surfstick is probably not possible because I also need Wi-Fi for the smart tv… I just remembered. Young tariffs do not apply to me, I will be 30 this year. So I could try it out, but I think 16mbit is quite a bit for youtube right?
Is 16mbit sufficient if you watch videos every day? I can estimate that so bad, even when the 100GB are used up.
So I'm now to vodafone to look there and after the availability check I was offered the gigacube (which also makes more sense than the tariff which costs just as much). I can find quite good reports online about this. Unfortunately, it costs 35 a month, but I seem to have no choice, because unitymedia and vodafone are the only providers for me in terms of bandwidth. The following comes from telekom:
MagentaZuhause is available with up to 6 MBit / s in download and up to 2.4 MBit / s in upload via DSL and with increased data load up to 50 MBit / s in download and up to 10 MBit / s in upload via LTE.
I don't know how much that means now, but the offers are 6mbit and 6 + 50mbit (although I don't know if they can deliver 50).
That means, whether you take My Home S or M at O2, go to 1&1 or Vodafone: you will get a maximum of 6 mbits in the download.
At Telekom you still have the hybrid option: So bonding with DSL and LTE, which then brings you up to 50 mbits, depending on the capacity of the cell. (for 20 euro or 40 after 6 months).
As for the Gigacube: Limited data volume (125 GB and then unusable bandwidth afterwards) and fluctuating bandwidth, depending on expansion and utilization. And for that you still pay 35 euro for 2 years.
The cheapest options would be for you: Either with O2 My Home S with up to 6 mbits for 25 euro after 12 months (if you can live with 2 mbits after 100GB, you have to keep in mind that your maximum bandwidth is somewhere between 2- 6) or Unitymedia Internet Comfort 60 with up to 60 mbits for 25 euro (if cable is available at all)
OK, the problem is the amount of data you need and… The price. The way your old usage behavior looks, you will get along well with the lowest values of the providers you can do. You can still top up. So the price counts. I would inquire about what kind of providers the lovely roommates in the house have and how satisfied they are. Personally, I have tried a number of providers in the past and, my very exclusive experience, have actually managed to do everything with Telekom, because they generally have the network's sovereignty. If other providers use these lines, they will generally not be able to send more volume than Deutsche Telekom, unless they have installed their own network. Unfortunately, this is not the case for me in the country. Now the federal government wants to establish the fast data network all over Germany, has announced it with great roar, fiber optic cables have been laid on our villages and country roads as if there were no tomorrow, only the upper half of our village went empty: "It will be covered in the next step "" That was about 2 years ago and I'm unfortunately also affected by this coverage gap. So I got involved in a broadband coverage via radio data transmission, which is offered in our region. Everything is a bit more expensive than 30 , - Euro, but it works great for that and I don't have as many failures as with the overloaded lines from the standard providers. It may be that there's such a provider in your region. Please inquire. And besides: the offers about the data volume is BIS 10, 15 20 50 etc. That does not mean that you really will get this. I had b At Telekom and then at NetCologne, only about 40 - 60% of what I expected and above all paid / booked came. Then you can go directly to the lower level and play it safe and order what really arrives.
