How good is 4G home broadband, really?

Croft12

davemorton wrote: »

I have just signed up for the Smarty instead of getting home BB, seems a cheaper option, and only tied in for a month if it is carp.
What home wi-fi routers would people recommend that I can put the sim into and are not too expensive please? I am utterly clueless when it comes to these.

Is there much difference between the cheap ones and the expensive ones. Looking to buy second hand.

Price usually = features and signal strength. See what you can get a Huawei’s B311-s-220 Wireless Router for... Check the reviews though to be sure it does what you want. Its the router provided with 3's HomeFi.


(I've not used it so someone who has might like to chip in)

SofiaC

pinkteapot said:

We've seen a house to buy that's perfect for us in every way except one. Broadband speed is 1-3Mbps :eek: Estate agent said his office has a 4G business service as that's all they could get, and they run 10 computers off it. He claims to get 40 Mbps.

I'm really unsure. We use internet for the following currently (we have 300Mb Virgin!!):

• Netflix/Amazon Prime
• Working from home one day every 1-2 weeks
• Facetime - we relocated so it's nice to Facetime family
• Open University study - I study and it includes a lot of web use, online tutorials (think online conference call with a presentation) and watching videos

I'm just not convinced 4G internet will be quick enough or reliable enough for this kind of usage. EE and O2 both claim to have a good 4G signal in the area but hubby's mobile is on EE and he had no service downstairs in the house! (I know we could get a signal booster)

I'm aware it's really expensive - we're prob looking at £100/month for the usage we need. Setting that aside though, will it even work?!

Any experiences to share?

Have you thought about a seperate 4g router. If you live in a remote or rural area you can go for marine based routers which have stronger signals and further reach. For top of the range ones which can reach 300 Mbps they will be more expensive but there are other 'budget' options - like the Hubba Wave or Hubba x4 go and you don't even need a landline connection for them.