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Re: Bailey Autograph - Factory installed TomTom SatNav
Trevor Mace
I have a 2018 X290 Camper and the factory installed SatNav is of
very limited use. You cannot update the TomTom software and you
certainly cannot enter any vehicle dimensions into it. I think it
is a standard Fiat car radio that is designed for a Fiat 500
judging by the roads it sent me down in Cornwall! I purchased a
second hand TomTom 6000 - a 'Trucker' model that allows me to
enter dimensions. As for the radio you are probably better off fitting a third party radio that includes Apple or Android compatibility. Trevor
On 12/05/2022 14:03,
segontium2001@... via groups.io wrote:
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Bailey Autograph - Factory installed TomTom SatNav
segontium2001@yahoo.co.uk
Hi,
I have a Bailey Autograph motorhome based on a Peugeot Boxer X290 chassis. I bought it second hand and the only thing wrong with it is that the factory installed combined Radio/DVD/SatNav system has a cracked touch screen so I have been unable to fully use the SatNav function although it does seem to still work. My question is: Does this pre-installed TomTom SatNav take account of the size of the motorhome or is it just set for the original Peugeot Boxer because I am considering having the screen repaired but if it's not really going to be useful, I might consider using an external SatNav.
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
simon
On EE if you pay for a £10 add on/ month this will cover the months roaming charges,can be done through their app month by month.
-------- Original message -------- From: Alan Morris <alan.g4ens@...> Date: Tue, 10 May 2022, 18:09 To: motorhome-list@groups.io Subject: Re: [motorhome-list] EU Roaming Charges On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 22:05, Mick Potter via groups.io
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
Alan Morris
On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 22:05, Mick Potter via groups.io
<mick.potter=yahoo.co.uk@groups.io> wrote: Our last trip was mid February to late March, in Spain.So at £2 a day to use a mobile phone's ability to navigate in the EU, that would cost about £200 on Three. A massive increase! I have a gps but it doesn’t get me internet. It does use satellite positioning which is great. I also have a satellite dish which I use for tv. All those folk who said it was better to stream from laptop will now have problemsOur current day society has been moving away from dedicated devices, like TVs, GPSrs and cameras, to jack-of-all-trades devices - so called smart phones. However with brexit, society is now seeing price increases. Everyone will now have to adapt and go back to previous methods. We don't stream as we consider that the extra energy consumed is contributing to climate change. Our motorhome has not been used for two years due to covid and a year before that because of my wife's and my health situations. Yesterday, we switched on the TV and satellite dish controller that has not been used over those three years. Fortunately they both still work. Alan.
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
Mick Potter
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
Carol Weaver
I have a gps but it doesn’t get me internet. It does use satellite positioning which is great. I also have a satellite dish which I use for tv. All those folk who said it was better to stream from laptop will now have problems I thought I was missing something Carol
Good ol GPS receivers dont use data from the internet Carol they are --
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
pj_home
Good ol GPS receivers dont use data from the internet Carol they are phone/data free whereas google maps needs the internet connection to work "live"
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On 09/05/2022 20:28, Carol Weaver wrote:
How does that help? --
Regards Paul
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
Carol Weaver
How does that help?
Still got my good ol GPS unit for that very reason! --
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
Carol Weaver
Mick when did you last go? I have 100GB ON Vodafone and Duncan 60GB on Smarty. He uses little. Mine will expire end November it was two years and I have been into my local shop and they said do not change your contract. When it’s up come in and chat to us I have a business account Carol
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
Mick Potter
I thought that my experience might be of interest in this discussion. I'm with TescoMobile, which uses the O2 network. When we're at home, we use very little non-WiFi internet, but we go away for 6-8 weeks at a time to Europe in our 'van, a couple of times a year, and then our usage increases significantly. When my last contract expired, I waited to see what the different networks did with regard to roaming charges. I saw that O2 and Tesco were not charging for roaming, so I took out a two year contract, hoping that if things changed I would at least get free roaming until the end of the contract. As I had occasionally had to buy extra data while travelling (and 'extra' data is always expensive), I went high: 30 GB for me, and 12 GB for my wife, on a 'family discount'. Also, when I had taken out a previous contract, I was given a free 6 month trial for Tesco Plus - this gives 10% off two shops per month plus a few other discounts, and *double data* on one phone account. The Tesco Plus now costs £7.99 per month, but it is not difficult to get two shops to total more than £80 in a month to recoup this, so it is effectively free (unless I'm out of the country for the whole month, which happens occasionally!). So, for £20.50 per month we get 12GB plus 60GB, with free roaming in the 'Home from Home' countries. I think this is pretty good value, especially if you use Tesco anyway. HTH Mick ___________________________________________________________ Please make sure the only e-mail address you use for me is mick.potter@.... Any others you may find are likely to be temporary, or to have been discontinued. I should hate to miss anything you send me.
Thanks.
On Monday, 9 May 2022, 17:42:01 BST, pj_home via groups.io <paul.f.jackson@...> wrote:
Still got my good ol GPS unit for that very reason! On 09/05/2022 17:38, Alan Morris wrote: > On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:08, David Scholes via groups.io > <scholesd=icloud.com@groups.io> wrote: > >> In other words, it costs £2 per day in addition to it comes out of your own data allowance and it is charged automatically as soon as you use any data like when you try to navigate to the local supermarket on google maps > > Maybe an increase in sales of good ol' GPS receivers! > > Alan > > > > > -- Regards Paul
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
pj_home
Still got my good ol GPS unit for that very reason!
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
Alan Morris
On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 07:08, David Scholes via groups.io
<scholesd=icloud.com@groups.io> wrote: In other words, it costs £2 per day in addition to it comes out of your own data allowance and it is charged automatically as soon as you use any data like when you try to navigate to the local supermarket on google mapsMaybe an increase in sales of good ol' GPS receivers! Alan
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
Phil
Also OK with Plusnet Mobile - they are also no EU roaming charges.
Plus monthly charges are a lot lower and all on 30 day contracts - top get the good rates on O2 you need to sign for 24 months I have unlimited calls and text plus 30Gb for £10 per month Phil
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
yorkcov
I am in Portugal at the moment and Smarty do have a 12gb fair use limit
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On 8 May 2022 14:53:38 WEST, "Steve via groups.io" <vancamping@...> wrote: 02 are advertising that they will not be reintroducing roaming charges. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
David Scholes
This is the current deal from 3. I suspect that it will be the same with Smarty and virtually the same with all the others.
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For a fixed daily charge, set out below, our Advanced Plans allow you to use your UK allowance in any of our Go Roam destinations to contact a UK number (starting 01, 02, 03 or a standard UK mobile). You can also use your UK allowance in a Go Roam in Europe destination to make calls to standard landline or mobile numbers in other Go Roam in Europe destinations. Fair use policies apply - see page 21. The daily charge to unlock your UK allowance: Go Roam in Europe destinations - £2. Go Roam Around the World destinations - £5. The daily charge will automatically be applied to your bill as soon as you make a chargeable event (such as your device accessing data services, or you make an outbound call or send a text). If we are unable to process your daily charge (such as you reaching your credit limit, or your account not being in good standing) you will be unable to unlock your UK allowance in the Go Roam destination. It’s free to receive calls, texts, photo messages and video messages when in a Go Roam destination on our Advanced Plans. In other words, it costs £2 per day in addition to it comes out of your own data allowance and it is charged automatically as soon as you use any data like when you try to navigate to the local supermarket on google maps David
On 8 May 2022, at 20:41, Steve via groups.io <vancamping@...> wrote:
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
Steve
I should have been clearer, by abroad I meant the EU, referring to my friend in Portugal.
From Smarty: "EU Roaming
Use your SMARTY plan anywhere in the EU
As I said, Smarty is part of Hutchison/Three.
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
David Scholes
I would be surprised if some enterprising person like carphone warehouse but from the south of Ireland wasn’t selling such sims to the English already.
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On 8 May 2022, at 19:10, Tim Sagar via groups.io <t.sagar761@...> wrote:
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
Tim Sagar
Even Smarty have 12gb fair use limit. I understand there is a payg sim you can buy from le clerc, that doesn't require you to be domicile in france.
On 8 May 2022 14:53, "Steve via groups.io" <vancamping@...> wrote: 02 are advertising that they will not be reintroducing roaming charges.
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
David Scholes
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The last information i had from 3 said that everything remained normal until about July when free roaming in the EU would end completely And be replaced by ‘a simple daily charge for roaming’. As far as i understood the others of the big 4 were doing the same but a little earlier. All of this they claimed was because of brexit. As we are outside of the EU they no longer HAVE to do it so they aren’t. David
On 8 May 2022, at 16:49, Alan Morris <alan.g4ens@gmail.com> wrote:
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Re: EU Roaming Charges
Alan Morris
On Sun, 8 May 2022 at 13:07, Brian Reay via groups.io
<g8osn=yahoo.co.uk@groups.io> wrote: We have three Three contracts, 2 mobile phones and an internet one which predate the deadline. I'm counting on the old rules applying- I took the internet contract out specifically for the motorhome. I have a 4G router in the motorhome, plus a switch, a NAS, and a media server etc to use with a Firestick.I did have two PAYG phones with Three and both are still active, however mainly used only for receiving phone calls. One is our SMS number registered with everyone that needs to text us. Mainly delivery companies but also our GP. The Three phone on a £5 a month contract was cancelled when it's cost was increased (see previous posting in this thread) and is now on iD (piggybacked on Three) at £6 a month, which is not unreasonable. But the 4GB data with Three was lost at the end of the month. Now with iD, it's still 4GB a month but overflows to the following month. So effectively 8GB a month. For all of our BB, I have a B535 4G Mi-Fi at home running on mains with a 12 volt PSU. Could be used in the motorhome, but I also have two battery (3G and 4G) Mi-Fis. Don't count on the old rules applying as the T&Cs have been changed with Three. It will now cost MORE ! Alan.
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