Any thoughts on Three 5G only (no landline) broadband?

max...

Totally fed up with our local Vodafone BB over our contract time  - advertised as 60mb but often down to 15 or 30 - had numerous engineer visits and temporary fixes but always dropping out, intermittent, super slow...

However, we have really good 5G here and this morning I'm getting over 200mb - crazy fast.

Thinking of going for Three 5G home 'BB' so no landline - only concern is with no landline BB - in the past if that went out I had 4G/5G but there is no back up in the future if the 5G goes down.

Anyone using similar - how has it been?

BrilliantButScary

We've had it a couple of months now, £19 a month. Just done a Wi-fi speed test download 211.92 Mbps. Previously with 1p broadband.  No problems so far.

alanwsg

I ditched my FTTC line a year ago now and use mobile BB.
I don't get 5G where I am but still get 280Mbs download on 4G+
I use a Scancom (from Amazon) EE data-only SIM which works out around £13/month
If you can use '3' network it's about £7/month

You say there's no backup, but you van always shove a different SIM in and use a different network.
The latency on mobile networks can be high, that might cause problems if you're a gaming fanatic.

QrizB

max... said:

Anyone using similar - how has it been?

My parents (both approaching 80) did this when they moved house. Didn't bother getting a wired connection at their new home but instead bought an unlocked 4/5G router and a budget SIM. I forget which network they're currently with but it seems to work for them. They're not particularly heavy data users but do use iPlayer etc. for streaming video.

john1

Previously on VM 250  now on 3 home BB for last 2 month so far good - just now speed test 365.4 Mbps download 87.3 Mbps upload Latency: 4 ms May drop slightly 8-10pm  peak with increased Ping / Latency but still very fast  -Max speed tested 1.6 Gbps  

max...

Thanks very much all.

Daz2009

I moved from Virgin to Three 5G at Xmas.
Apart from some teething problems in the first few days,which was largely fixed by repositioning the router, it's worked well .
If there's a weak 5G signal it's supposed to automatically revert to 4G

bomboli1

I just switched a day go but am having to cancel as it does not support xbox (google "three xbox mtu issue" to see lots of posts on this issue)
otherwise speed was good and all worked as expected, just don't switch to three if you use X-box.

brewerdave

If only I had a usable 5g (or 4g) signal at home ..........LOL

Scrounger

brewerdave said:

If only I had a usable 5g (or 4g) signal at home ..........LOL

I'm tethering 24/7 through a mobile phone fixed high in my loft ('cos the 5g modems are still too expensive).

At £2.60/month (using a 500GB/month pre-paid sim) I can't see me going back to adsl or fibre any time soon (unless its free!).


Scrounger