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Spintel 250GB Wireless Broadband for $39.95 m2m BYO or $99.00 Upfront / 18 Month Contract for Huawei B525 4G Modem @ Spintel

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Spintel 250GB Wireless Broadband for $39.95 m2m BYO or $99.00 Upfront / 18 Month Contract for Huawei B525 4G Modem @ Spintel
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hongd on 03/05/2019 - 13:28 spintel.net.au (707 clicks)
Last edited 03/05/2019 - 16:31 by 1 other user

I think it is trying to match Exetel deal https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/446843 and it used to be $179 upfront https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/437691
I can't post the link as the link is the same with $179 one

250GB Capped Data
Broadband Only
In metropolitan areas where there is 2300 MHz coverage at your nominated address, download and upload speeds of up to 12/1 Mbps are available.
If 2300 MHz coverage is not available at your nominated address, download and upload speeds of up to 5/1 Mbps are available.
WiFi modem is required (Huawei B525 modem) $99.00 Upfront
Just $39.95 /mth (no contract).

$99.00 account credit on 18 Month Contract

In my opinion, it is better than Exetel.
1. it supports BYO. If you already have B525, you can simply sign up $39.95 month to month. Not available online but you call them to place BYO order for you
2. if you are concerning on possible exceeding the quota, as Exetel has 48 hours delay
Their TC———
Data Usage
Data will be counted in kilobytes and includes both uploads and downloads. The cost of 1MB of data within your Included Data
Allowance is $0.00023/MB. Once you’ve used your included data your service will be capped and you will need to login to My
Account to purchase a data-block. Additional 10GB data-blocks are available for $10 each, but the service will be shaped to 256K
for the remainder of that billing month.

If you are under 200G usage, it is also good to signup one month to get the B525 modem at budget upfront price $99 (RRP is $200+)
https://www.spintel.net.au/static/uploads/HUAWEI%20B525s-65a…
then move on to Optus to get free iPad under 24 months plan

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  • TThomas on 03/05/2019 - 13:52
    +4

    Just so people are aware…

    Speeds up to 12/1Mbps
    download/upload

    • [Deactivated] on 03/05/2019 - 16:16

      Also, theoretically, if you have an old 3G/4G phone/modem lying around that you can pair it with your old repeater/router, then you probably don't need their $99 modem, unless you need a few expensive gigabit ports.

      • hongd on 03/05/2019 - 16:34

        I thought this too.
        However, I was also thinking lower version's router might not have 2300 MHz, e.g. often discounted huawei-e3372
        If I jump into Optus wireless (200G atm) to get free iPad (24mth plan) by any chance, I can still enjoy unrestricted cat 6 network.

  • TomGum on 03/05/2019 - 14:07
    -2

    4G in title is misleading. Its 12/1 Mbps which is not 4G.

  • Diji1 on 03/05/2019 - 14:57
    +1

    The private sector manages to provide even slower internet, that is even more expensive, while f****g idiots, such as the morons at the ACCC, insist everything is becoming better and cheaper because that's what neoliberal economic theory says should happen.

  • japik on 03/05/2019 - 15:18
    +3

    Be very careful with this mob. I had ADSL 2 plus and home phone with them, initial connection nearly took 1 month as they connected the wrong house. I also had telephone charges during that period which I never did as someone else had been using the line during that month that I was supposed to be connected. I asked for refund for those charges but never got it nor the period I wasn't connected. 6 months later my phone and internet stopped working. Contact them and they say it's showing faults from my end and theirs. Then I asked if nbn is available and the rep said yes for the past 3 weeks so I then said well can I switch to that instead of repairing the fault of the ADSL 2 line, rep agreed and I cancelled the ADSL 2 and home phone plan. 1 week later at scheduled time frame of connection of nbn I called spintel to see how the progress was going and then was told that nbn is not available. I then cancelled that nbn as I was so mad at them as I've been out of internet for 10 days.
    Whats even more immoral is that they charged me a full month of adsl2 and home phone after that as apparently I needed to give 30 business days in advanced for cancellations even though there was a fault on the line from both ends. Never again with this mob. Be warned.

  • sydracing on 03/05/2019 - 16:13

    I has this 12/1 4G home wireless. So far, so happy. More faster than ADSL, more stable speed than NBN 12/1 connection. With this price, it is sweet. 250G is enough for me.

    • OzziJoe on 08/06/2019 - 14:45

      Hi sydracing, would you be able to do a speedtest and put up a screenshot, please? Thanks.

      • sydracing on 08/06/2019 - 16:34

        Upload 11.37 download 1.12 upload

  • sydracing on 03/05/2019 - 16:20

    Hi, Op, does Optus restrict using an iPad SIM in a modem? I heard about Telstra does that.

    • hongd on 03/05/2019 - 16:28

      I dont have iPad sim. What i can try is to put optus phone sim into the modem, to compare Spintel sim and Optus sim

      • sydracing on 03/05/2019 - 16:34

        Thanks for your reply, I mean, Telstra restricts using an IPad sim in a modem. Telstra doesn’t allow use iPad contract data sim for a modem. When do that, Telstra will stop data service on that SIM card. So does Optus do the same restriction?

        • twobit on 03/05/2019 - 23:42

          I have put the inlaws optus post paid iPad sim into a vivid modem and worked without lock. Gets about 30/12 speeds so no limit

  • anthony1106 on 03/05/2019 - 18:45

    https://offer.optus.com.au/shop/broadband/mobile-broadband/h…

    the 500GB/$80 plan is way better (Full speed 4G)

    https://www.wireless1.com.au/d-link-dwr-921-4g-lte-router-wi…

    and I just bought the 4G modem from wireless1, OW will price match it.

    • hongd on 03/05/2019 - 19:19
      +1

      reading the up/down speed, it is cat 4 modem anyway, even if the price is more expensive.
      b525 is a cat 6 modem, which theoretically double download speed (300/50).
      in this case, why not pay 99+39.9 (also get one-month 250G data) to get better modem then jump on what you want?

      • anthony1106 on 04/05/2019 - 09:27

        theoretically, thanks and the Spintel plan have a speed cap anyway?lol

        Optus 500GB is a full speed 4G

    • parker2004au on 05/05/2019 - 09:28

      How did you get that modem to work if it isn't on the elgigable device list?

      You on mobile broadband or wireless broadband?

  • Louis 90 on 03/05/2019 - 21:59

    what happen to that vivid wireless? arent they were doing $99 unlimited download?

    • ashdays on 03/05/2019 - 22:57

      Aww. Where have you been all this time!
      Vivid Wireless are no more!

      • Louis 90 on 03/05/2019 - 23:50

        oops..didnt use that da service therefore wouldn have a clue lol. too bad,that was a good plan i guess

    • kranix on 04/05/2019 - 14:39

      They were bought by Optus. Optus's new wireless broadband plans are the successors to Vivid. And they aren't speed capped like you get from resellers like Spintel and Exetel.

      • Louis 90 on 04/05/2019 - 20:01

        thanks for the infor, hope optus can do big data downloads for wireless internet, that would be great,then i can consider that 4G plan.

  • whooah1979 on 21/09/2019 - 13:44

    In metropolitan areas where there is 2300 MHz coverage at your nominated address,

    Does anyone know what this means? Is the service limited to a radius around the address or may it be used while driving around?
    Thanks,

    • [Deactivated] on 28/09/2019 - 14:48

      It means:

      If your neighbourhood's cell tower supports the 2300MHz band (LTE Band 40) AND that cell tower has capacity to support you. You can potentially get download connection speeds of up to 12Mbps.
      The SIM they provide are locked to the modems that they approve - the NetComm and Huawei B525. These are designed for home use and enable them to apply certain locks. I am unaware of the specific locks in place. But technically, it's possible. Just have to keep in mind that the modems are chunky and designed for home use.

  • [Deactivated] on 28/09/2019 - 14:40

    Avoid Spintel like the plague!

    Recently signed up to this plan and boy. What a nightmare. A $60 nightmare.

    The nightmare first begins with them forcing you to buy a new modem (unless you already have a Huawei B525 modem). By all means avoid the NetComm garbage - just do a simple google and you'll see what I mean. I experienced all those issues firsthand, so can second all the complaints.

    Just when you thought the modem issues weren't enough. The connection was absolutely atrocious. Not useable at all. Took like 5 minutes to load up the google homepage. Cos the modem kept getting disconnected. Rang up Spintel support. Wasted a good hour or so of my time running through the same old bullshit routine of resetting my modem and forcing the modem to use the crippled LTE connection (what this means is that the max DL speed drops from 12Mbps to a mere 5Mbps). Obviously none of this resolved the issue(s). So the customer rep decides to dig further and see if there's anything wrong with the cell towers in my neighbourhood. Turns out the two main towers in my neighbourhood were under maintenance and that's why I was experiencing all these disconnections. Told me their tech staff would call me and update me in 48 hours with more details (sorry for the inconvenience that's all we can do).

    Two days later, I received a text message informing me that they expect the maintenance work to be finished by the end of the week (i.e. 6 days time). [at this point I'm 3 days in without a useable connection]

    The deadline for the maintenance comes and goes. So I call up Spintel support to see what's going. Boy. Was this staff member something.

    First he ignores everything that I said. And just goes "by the script" he has… which is the standard reset your modem, bla bla bla…

    So I comply just to try get things moving along… 30 minutes later… after completing all the customer side of the script steps. I discover that the connection is semi-working at ~2.5Mbps. I asked him to explain why the appalling speed. He told me that 2.5Mbps is very fast internet and that for my neighbourhood that's the fastest speed that I could get due to hardware/equipment. I told him that I was previously with Optus and using a "slower" modem and was downloading at 6MB/s. He finally confessed that it was actually due to the limitation of the agreement in place between Spintel and Optus - but still stood behind his comment that ~2.5Mbps is very fast internet connection!

    45 minutes in, he finally moves onto the next step, to check up on the status of the maintenance. Comes back and goes: they couldn't finish fixing the issues. so that's why you're experiencing the issues. it should be fixed in 3 days time. Call back then.

    This is when I said: WTF. I am cancelling this unusable service.
    He replied: You're on a contract, so you will need to pay for all the usage charges until the end of this billing cycle plus the early termination fees.
    I said to him: What is the 14 day risk free guarantee mentioned on the website? [He ignored me and just continued to tell me that I'm on a contract and will need to pay early termination fees plus the $99 credit applied to my account would be reversed.]
    After asking to speak to his supervisor. [He ignored my request to speak to his supervisor obviously] However, he decided to "waive" the early termination fee. So I just need to pay the service charges for this billing cycle.
    At this point I gave up and asked where to return the garbage modem to them and have the modem cost refunded back to me. He told me that I need to send it back to them, then they will credit my account (which he had closed at this point in time). And I will need to call them up again at the end of the next billing cycle (my current billing cycle hasn't ended yet, but they won't get the modem back in time). And tell them to return the credit in the closed account to my original credit card.

    Wow. That was a painful hour and 15 minutes. And lost ~$60 in the whole ordeal (cost of shipping modem + service charges). Never again. If anyone wants to try them out. Make sure you are 100% sure your neighbourhood has sufficient LTE (Band 40) support or you'll be getting crippled 5Mbps Max download speed - and that's max speed. You will more likely get half that like me. Even when I was connected to LTE (Band 40) I only managed to get download speeds of ~500kb/s (which is a connection speed of ~6Mbps). But most importantly is to make sure you don't use their garbage modem. Better to buy a Huawei B525 from somewhere.

    Although, my best advice for anyone is just to simply avoid them.

    • plague69 on 30/09/2019 - 11:54

      B525 is Netcomm rebrand?

      We don't have much choice at the moment waiting for NBN to pull their heads out… Connection maybe by end Nov so need something for 2 months. Any other suggestions?

      • [Deactivated] on 30/09/2019 - 20:45

        Nope. Netcomm is its own thing.

        It's a bit of a lucky dip. However, if you don't need fast internet. I would recommend signing up with Telstra on their very small plan. $15/month - 5GB at max speed, then unlimited at 1.5Mbps. You can put that SIM into any device and it'll work. I'm currently on this plan and sad to say. It performs faster than Spintel's offering AND most importantly, just works. I've not had any issues. No need to fork out for some garbage modem, etc.

        Actual download speed for 1.5Mbps is ~200kb/s. Can stream youtube in SD fine, no probs. And cos it's only $15/month. You could sign up for 2 or 3 of these plans and each person have their own dedicated 1.5Mbps connection and as a extra bonus can take that connection with them as well.

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