Dreadful BT broadband V EE home router

Gers

Where I live the max BB from BT is a miserable 2Mbs (EO line and remote rural location).

A neighbour pointed me to the EE home router. It is more expensive that BT but it has a whizzy 60Mbs of speed. I've discovered that I don't need BT unlimited BB.

I can't understand why BT don't do the same, especially as they and EE are essentially the same company now.

JJ_Egan

Confused .
You have a max 2mb line but some router magically increases that to 60.

Gers

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Confused .
You have a max 2mb line but some router magically increases that to 60.

Yep! Not connected to anything but the power socket. Seems like magic, and so simple. And it's portable. Others get faster speed than me, my location is not helpful.

https://shop.ee.co.uk/dongles/pay-monthly-mobile-broadband/4gee-router/details#

I haven't gone for the 200GB plan!

molerat

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Confused .
You have a max 2mb line but some router magically increases that to 60.

It will be the EE 4GEE home router advertised as 60, £45 per month minimum but that would only give me a weeks worth !

Gers

molerat wrote: »

It will be the EE 4GEE home router advertised as 60, £45 per month minimum but that would only give me a weeks worth !

My needs are more sparse!

macman

Your service is only as fast as the slowest part of the network: in your case, the line (probably it's length) is the limiting factor. The fastest router invented won't change that.

Gers

My physical line is EO, that's the problem. Whilst my exchange is fibre enabled the ETA for this stand-alone remote building is 2020 for fibre.

The EE home router is proving a good alternative to those who were paying for either a very expensive satellite service or a very slow BT service.