Vodafone Gigacube unlimited 5G 50 quid a month

So the speed is a bit odd, it was working at 100-200 mbit, but slowed down, now I thought I'll fiddle with the position, ended up back in exactly the same position as it was at first and now it's pulling 150-200. Am I always going to need to fiddle with the position, move it about, put it back for it to pick up best signal?
 
I got one of these GigaCube a few months ago when they released the unlimited, not on 5G but got the 5G device anyway.

I opted to get the GigaCube the following way. Go the 325 for the device and pay for 1 month at 30 quid for 100GB's, I then cancelled the rolling contract and just went and got their £30 unlimited contract and stuck it in the device.

So I'm actually on 4G and when the device is connected to 4G+ CA I get anywhere between 100Mbit/s to 200Mbit/s depending on time of the day, it does however drop to just 4G sometimes which requires a few reboots to get it back to where it was, even when it drops I'm still getting around 80/90Mbit/s which is really decent for the price.

Uploads are anywhere between 15-30Mbit/s

The Gigacube does have the ability to connect a VPN either by ipsec or pptp so you can get around their CGNAT.

I will warn people though as I've already pulled 3TB's in the first month and got cut off - you get a message at 2.5TB stating that they believe that your usage is not for personal use and that you should talk to them.

I've been told that it's meant to be a softcap and that you shouldn't be cut off but this is the 3rd month and im almost at 3TB again with a day or so left until it resets, so I should be able to report on if this is going to get cut off again.

I think for the price and the speed you can get it is totally a good alternative to fixed line broadband, but I would never game over it... unsure what 5G is like for latency so I'll be holding onto both my Fixed line and this until 5G rolls out in my area.
 
So if I'm getting between 100-200 could it actually be 4G I'm using? Wish 4G could be disabled as there doesn't seem to be any way to tell if it's actually using 4G or 5G.

I'm having problems with Destiny 2, apparently due to"Strict NAT" - not sure what to do about this :(
 
willhub said:
So if I'm getting between 100-200 could it actually be 4G I'm using? Wish 4G could be disabled as there doesn't seem to be any way to tell if it's actually using 4G or 5G.

I'm having problems with Destiny 2, apparently due to"Strict NAT" - not sure what to do about this :(
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Quite possible if its 4G+ Carrier aggregation, Can go higher than that in some cases, The device has two lights one for 4G and 5G also when you log in it should tell you if its 4G,4G+ or 5G when connected - shame there doesnt seem to be more control over what bands you can say to use.

I think your best bet would be to setup a VPN on the device perhaps... will probably add to latency though.
I've had a few games failover to this without issues only thing i noticed was the increase in latency from my normal 20-30ms to 80-120ms
 
What effect does the added latency have? Also I notice there are virtual servers I wonder if they'd get around it.
 
willhub said:
What effect does the added latency have? Also I notice there are virtual servers I wonder if they'd get around it.
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well when i shoot or move it takes a little longer to see/feel the actual movement.
Movement is gets very laggy, i mean its not bad, but its not ideal... you can certain game on it but i wouldn't do any competitive gaming on it.
 
Perhaps this is why Destiny 2 is stuttering at the moment due to the STRICT NAT? Am I going to have to get rid of the gigacube is this an eternal problem that won't be solved anytime soon?
 
willhub said:
Perhaps this is why Destiny 2 is stuttering at the moment due to the STRICT NAT? Am I going to have to get rid of the gigacube is this an eternal problem that won't be solved anytime soon?
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The stuttering could be a number of things, but from what I've seen with a lot of online games... if you have a crap/unstable ping it can affect the smoothness of games.

I personally wouldnt game on it, but if you want pure downloads speed, 4G/5G seems to the best option for a few people... i load balance my gaming over to my fixed line and all my downloads/steaming to the vodafone sim.

Don't go over 3TB's, your data gets barred... Then know one actually has the correct training to fix it, instead taking you through standard restart/reset phone BS.
 
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Nicholas Eagle said:
Whats your ping like when you say ping bbc.co.uk, jolt.co.uk or google.co.uk
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I'll give it a go tonight but I think it'd between 5 and 30 usually.

I gave two VPN's a go last night, PIA Internet and Express VPN, PIA is faster despite reviews stating Express VPN is the fastest of all, it gets around the NAT issue and the ping is still good so I'm hoping my games will be fine online, 30mbit speed, ok not fastest but enough for gaming.
 
If your nearest mast is nearly half a mile away then it's not true 5G. Sounds like improved 4G to me. 5G wave length is so short they need masts no more than every quarter of a mile.
Think of it like 5Ghz on your router. Can kick out faster speeds vs 2.4Ghz but distance your self from it and it will loose 5Ghz and it reverts to 2.4Ghz and slower speeds.
 
It'll be ***** for competitive gaming or anything reliant on a reasonably stable connection. The problem is not one of bandwidth, but one of stability. Try a speed test tool that also provides jitter and bufferbloat values.
 
r7slayer said:
If your nearest mast is nearly half a mile away then it's not true 5G. Sounds like improved 4G to me. 5G wave length is so short they need masts no more than every quarter of a mile.
Think of it like 5Ghz on your router. Can kick out faster speeds vs 2.4Ghz but distance your self from it and it will loose 5Ghz and it reverts to 2.4Ghz and slower speeds.
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There is actually 3 masts within quarter of a mile, I've checked on mast data, but it doesn't specify if these masts will give 5G.

Currently my speeds at worst are around 60mbit but can hit around 250 MAX.

When I first turned the router on I was getting around 290mbit but that was a one hit wonder.

I have to restart the router once a day to ensure the speeds don't tank, usually need to pick it up and put it down, in the same spot too, weird, but speeds will be ok then, seems crap for 5g but better than 4g from what their rated speeds seem to be, and they do say 150-250 for 5g and up to 60 for 4g.
 
Does the modem ever say that its connected via 5G? you might just be on the fringe of connecting to 5G tbh.

From what I'm seeing that most of the 5G connections are getting around 300Mbit/s anyway so not that much better than 4G.

5G in its current stat is not from my point of view true 5G due to the wavelength being used as they want to get the distance, your only really going to see true 5G in small areas with loads of masts and with good backbone connectivity.

You saying that your connection speed is between and latency is between the ranges you have stated, it does look 5G might be providing the low latency and high bandwidth, just that in your case you can't remain connected to it.
 
The 5G and 4G light is on, if I disable 4G, the router won't operate and I need to reset it. I can disable 5G fine. I understand that it's the case you need to piggyback on 4G in 5G's current state, so pure 5G isn't even possible?

This CGNAT is the issue with games but even some landlines use it? Such as Hyperoptic?
 
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