Using 4G for Home Broadband?

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We have just moved to a new house and after waiting ages to get our phone line installed we've found we can't have fiber broadband and are stuck with ADSL. Sadly the speeds we are getting are slow at best (just over 1Mbit) which is too slow for streaming video, youtube, iplayer etc.
Sky have just been out and failed to improve the speed but the engineer was telling me about his 4G speeds. I initially thought this was out of the question as mobile signal is pants here too (on Vodafone and O2) but he had a tablet on EE and was able to get over 10Mbit and then his phone on 3 was getting 18Mbit.

So, this could be a solution, I have seen both 3 and EE offering all you can eat/unlimited data bundles but it doesn't seem you can use them tethered without limits being re-imposed (4GB on 3) and the dongle tariffs are all quite small data packages too. Has anyone come up with a clever solution or is there a product out there that i've missed? I can only get a 4G signal on EE or 3 but I have the equipment to be able to link my home LAN up to a dongle or MiFi unit so i'd be able to then use it like a home broadband connection. I'd need a big data allowance (ideally unlimited) as we stream a lot and I also game on the PC (and i'm amazed at how big some of the updates/patches are these days)

Best answers:

• I don't think there are any unlimited 4G mifi/dongle/tethering services out there except for Relish, which is central London only at present. EE used to do a 50GB package for Ј50/month, but it looks like they may have pulled this now.
  The latency on a mobile connection may cause issues with gaming as well.
• Used to have the same problem, ended up with a 15GB dongle contract with Three, still nowhere near enough and we regularly went over our limit.
  Only other option is satellite broadband, in our area it is a good alternative, but has a fairly hefty installation cost - circa Ј200.
• Frustrating... the new house is in a City (Exeter) and apparently fibre broadband is available but the cabinet is full so we cant have it until they upgrade the cabinet which no one can give me a timeframe for. Satellite broadband sadly isn't an option as there is some sort of environmental agreement which means we aren't allow to put sat dishes on our houses.
• I've been using a 3G Mobile Dongle (recently switched the sim to a MIFI Modem) for years, for my home BB.
  I'm not a massive data user (3GB pm is usually enough for me, but occasionally I'll put 7GB on it), and I find video (eg. Youtube) happily streams on it, with little or no buffering.
• The cheapest and best option on a rolling 30 day contract is 15GB for Ј20 or 25 GB for Ј30 per month with EE(4GEE Extra).
  The Osprey 4G modem is supplied free through some stockists on the 30 day contract.
• Is cable through Virgin Media available?
• Unless you've got very deep pockets, mobile broadband is just too expensive for heavy data usage such as regular usage of video streaming services.
  EE's 4GEE home broadband allows you to buy addons, which are up to Ј25 for 20GB. So you could use lots of data if your willing to pay for it.