The new Three Home Broadband packages

NewLeaf1986

Has anyone here tried Three's new Home Broadband packages?

It looks like they're rolling out unlimited broadband in select 4G / 5G areas for a fairly reasonable £22 / month including a 4G/5G router (more than just a MiFi device, this one also has four ethernet ports for connecting hard wired devices).

I'm interested for my mother; who lives in an area with no Virgin Cable and the best provisions available down her phone line are 8Mb ADSL or ~11Mb FTTC; neither of which have every been reliable. The phone lines around where she is seem to be made of garden twine. Ofc, multiple Openreach visits over the years haven't made a difference.

Curious if anyone else can share their experience of Three's new 4G/5G packages

Cisco001

With three 5G at the moment.
Speed around 170mb dl at my location.

With the past 6 months, my network was down 3 times. All happened around midnight.
It back and running the next day when I wake up.

One thing you need to aware is with three 5G contacts is, you don't own the 5G router come with the contact. 
Three lend it to you through out the contract and it need to be returned when you finish the contract. 

james_smitha

NewLeaf1986 said:

Has anyone here tried Three's new Home Broadband packages?

It looks like they're rolling out unlimited broadband in select 4G / 5G areas for a fairly reasonable £22 / month including a 4G/5G router (more than just a MiFi device, this one also has four ethernet ports for connecting hard wired devices).

I'm interested for my mother; who lives in an area with no Virgin Cable and the best provisions available down her phone line are 8Mb ADSL or ~11Mb FTTC; neither of which have every been reliable. The phone lines around where she is seem to be made of garden twine. Ofc, multiple Openreach visits over the years haven't made a difference.

Curious if anyone else can share their experience of Three's new 4G/5G packages

NewLeaf1986    In my brief experience I would say go for it. I pay a little less than that but bought my own device. Ask them which device is provided, check for an rj11 socket to attach a phone. Also check how close the nearest mast is, I live about 2 miles from mine so get very good reliable speeds. Three customer service is good and quick. Hopefully this will give Open reach a grilling.

NewLeaf1986

Thank you.

They don't support SIP / RJ11 on their provided devices I'm afraid, and disable it in firmware if their provided device does have an RJ11 port which is kinda a pity but also not really an issue given that everyone has a mobile with many included minutes these days anyway.

Magic. I'll help mother set that up next time her landline goes down (it's an inevitability, and it won't be long...)

jon81uk

We had a 4G one for a while in January as there was no fibre installed in our new build yet and the Three service worked excellantly, Got about 40Mb over the WiFi on 4G in most of the house.

james_smitha

NewLeaf1986   entirely up to you 100%, while you wait for you Mom's landline to go down, which shouldn't take long, 3 mobile have no issue with you puting their sim in your own unlocked device so you can get the full benefit of paying for everything unlimited

NewLeaf1986

james_smitha said:

NewLeaf1986   entirely up to you 100%, while you wait for you Mom's landline to go down, which shouldn't take long, 3 mobile have no issue with you puting their sim in your own unlocked device so you can get the full benefit of paying for everything unlimited

You try explaining that to my 71 year old mother. That's never going to happen. She'll get flustered and bewildered before I even get past the first sentence trying to explain that and I'm not taking a 150 mile round trip everytime her landline drops out

james_smitha

NewLeaf1986 said:

james_smitha said:

NewLeaf1986   entirely up to you 100%, while you wait for you Mom's landline to go down, which shouldn't take long, 3 mobile have no issue with you puting their sim in your own unlocked device so you can get the full benefit of paying for everything unlimited

You try explaining that to my 71 year old mother. That's never going to happen. She'll get flustered and bewildered before I even get past the first sentence trying to explain that and I'm not taking a 150 mile round trip everytime her landline drops out

NewLeaf1986 said:

james_smitha said:

NewLeaf1986   entirely up to you 100%, while you wait for you Mom's landline to go down, which shouldn't take long, 3 mobile have no issue with you puting their sim in your own unlocked device so you can get the full benefit of paying for everything unlimited

You try explaining that to my 71 year old mother. That's never going to happen. She'll get flustered and bewildered before I even get past the first sentence trying to explain that and I'm not taking a 150 mile round trip everytime her landline drops out

NewLeaf1986   easy don't explain it to her. just do it. Buy an unlocked huawei mi-fi device with an RJ 11 socket and cable. Attach your mom's phone, insert the Sim card. As the others say it'll work so reliably that your mom will forget what you look like