****The Official 5G Home Broadband Thread**** (Three/EE/Vodafone/etc)

bulldog147 said:
The 5G hub does have external x 4 ports for using your 5G antenna outside pole. Work out cheaper and save your money!
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Having it all external and using PoE (an all in one solution) was just what I required. Remeber the NR5101 (not sure if the NR5103 is the same) when set to External still is limited to use the built in antenna for managing the initial 4G conneciton. It can't be forced to use External even when set to use it. Whereas the NR7101 is just an all in one, plonk it outside, and away you go with full fat 4G/5G. :)
 
Journey said:
At least with 5G you don't have an 18 month commitment, you can try it for a month or two for a very low price, even if you have to source a used router, that can easily be sold on for little to no loss at all.
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I was looking at buying a 5G wifi router for £230, and with £30 p/m simcard. With BT I will only have to pay £30 p/m. It's that router purchase that is putting me off. I understand what you say though.
 
Cyclone said:
I was looking at buying a 5G wifi router for £230, and with £30 p/m simcard. With BT I will only have to pay £30 p/m. It's that router purchase that is putting me off. I understand what you say though.
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You can get a decent 5G router for £130-150, and spend way less than £30 per month on a SIM, and as already said you can easily sell the router on for a similar cost that you bought it for. Who were you going to be using for the SIM anyhow?
 
Journey said:
You can get a decent 5G router for £130-150, and spend way less than £30 per month on a SIM, and as already said you can easily sell the router on for a similar cost that you bought it for. Who were you going to be using for the SIM anyhow?
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I've been using a 5G sim with O2 in an old phone (as a wifi hotspot) for about 6 months. I left Virgin Media, having issues with BT so continuing using 5G but in a proper router seems the right option.

Can you recommend a router for £150? I'm assuming that is new, I can't do second hand stuff :o

Thanks.
 
In a drunken moment I ordered the ZTE MC801A :)

It's working fine and I'm using an O2 5G sim but will look at Smarty as it's £10 a month cheaper.
 
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What's the current recommendations for a 4g router (not going to be used in UK and there is no 5g yet there and given that it is in the middle of the nowhere it will take a while to get there but I'd it is the same price why not?)

Also external outdoor antenna for it recommendations for it (house made of cement and bricks)

I have seen a mr600 for £80. Any other suggestions
 
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I've gone for 3 deal as a trial and pretty happy with it (ping 25-29ms) and having router on window sill, but obviously if there is a way to improve connection I'd like to do so.

Has anybody tried 4x4 Antennas for Three 5g? What difference does it make?
 
j4ska said:
I've gone for 3 deal as a trial and pretty happy with it (ping 25-29ms) and having router on window sill, but obviously if there is a way to improve connection I'd like to do so.

Has anybody tried 4x4 Antennas for Three 5g? What difference does it make?
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Your cheap option is to get the router as high as you can in the house and onto a window that faces the mast, as 5G antennas are expensive.
See if that improves your signal.
 
Troop said:
Your cheap option is to get the router as high as you can in the house and onto a window that faces the mast, as 5G antennas are expensive.
See if that improves your signal.
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I have router in best position pointing mast, was asking purely for antennas advice. I know 3s routers are really good apparently therefore asked if anybody got antennas and what's the improvement.
 
j4ska said:
I have router in best position pointing mast, was asking purely for antennas advice. I know 3s routers are really good apparently therefore asked if anybody got antennas and what's the improvement.
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Good place to look/ask. https://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/threads/new-three-5g-hub-nr5103e.38663/

I use external 5G antennas and it gave me a huge boost but that is in a Campervan, I went with the 2x 2x2 Mimo so I could place the two antennas a meter apart.
Speed went from 40 to over 250mbps, van is a faraday cage, exterior antennas was the only option.(Using Teltonika TRB500)
 
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Troop said:
Good place to look/ask. https://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/threads/new-three-5g-hub-nr5103e.38663/

I use external 5G antennas and it gave me a huge boost but that is in a Campervan, I went with the 2x 2x2 Mimo so I could place the two antennas a meter apart.
Speed went from 40 to over 250mbps, van is a faraday cage, exterior antennas was the only option.(Using Teltonika TRB500)
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Thank you for link. Will have a look.

Best I have is 580mbps download and 70mbps upload, on average is 300/50 during peak so it's good but I'm not bothered about speed it's latency, I could pay for antennas if they would drop it by another 5-10 (24ms is best atm, 29-32ms on average)
 
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