I bought a $150 'nomad hotspot' in Lisbon that was slower than my phone's data.

The company promised 'global high speed' but I got maybe 2 Mbps, so has anyone found a real mobile internet fix for Europe?

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4 Comments

wendy1311mo ago

That sounds so frustrating, especially after paying that much. Matthewdixon has a point about checking the local network, but sometimes the hardware itself is just bad. I had a similar thing in Berlin last year, a pocket wifi that kept dropping calls. Ended up just getting a local SIM card at a corner shop for like 20 euros, and it was way faster and more reliable. Those global promises seem to fall apart the second you land.

matthewdixon2mo ago

Did you check which local network it was connecting to? Sometimes those things lock onto the weakest signal.

angela_knight32mo ago

Global high speed" is the biggest lie in tech right now.

the_taylor2mo ago

It's a marketing promise that rarely matches reality. My last trip had more dead zones than actual internet. You're not wrong at all.