4G Router

Sirrel Squirrel · 17 Oct 2015 at 17:12

I'm moving house soon and the area has terrible broadband speeds but 4G coverage is fantastic so I was thinking of not bothering with a phone line and just tethering from my phone but that got me thinking, does such a thing as a normal router exist that takes a Sim card for 4G data but still works like a normal router with Ethernet connections and Wi-fi?

edit/ so turns out they do exist, anyone have any recommendations?

Sirrel Squirrel · 17 Oct 2015 at 17:21

Hopefully it'll just be an interim gap for now as fibre is meant to be rolled out by end of 2016. Currently BT seem to be the only people willing to supply the property, the others say the line speed isn't fast enough with BT estimating 1-3Mbps. 4G on the otherhand hits nearly 50Mbps in the area when tested on EE.

I noticed EE has a shared plan where you get another sim to share your data with so I was going to up my allowance to say 30GB a month and then use that. Luckily my work pays my mobile phone bill

Sirrel Squirrel · 18 Oct 2015 at 20:14

Thanks for all the advice, are there any recommended routers, the Huawei B593s-22 seems to get good reviews for performance and you can add external antennas should you need to. Or there's the ASUS 4G-N12 but it seems a bit newer so not many reviews that I can find.

Sirrel Squirrel · 22 Oct 2015 at 12:43

Just seen the ASUS 4G-N12 is on this week only, any good?

Sirrel Squirrel · 23 Oct 2015 at 14:28

Thanks for the recommendation, I've opted to go for the Asus as it is a very good price on the This Week Only deal, cheaper than the Huawei.