Sim card router to replace landline internet and phone

FelixTCat

Currently I have a landline connection for both phone and broadband, even though the phone is routed over the internet. I would like to replace this with a sim card router since I don't use a great deal of data and can get a 120GB sim for £10 per month instead of the £40+ I'm currently paying.

I have 5 or 6 phone extensions around the house which I want to keep, so the router will need a phone plug or other way of linking the phones to the router to make calls.

Does anyone have any ideas, please?

ButterCheese

I would first be very sure that you can get a strong enough 5g signal throughout the house.  The router is only as good as the 5g signal it can receive.  Probably the easiest way is to do a speed test on your phone, in all areas of the house where you need the internet, and do it at peak times to get a worst case scenario.  5g can be very good but it's still very patchy in a lot of areas

Frozen_up_north

We have a second home with a SIM based router, I am there now typing this. We have a 50 GB/month SIM from Scancom that cost the equivalent of about £6-30 per month (pay up front, throw in the bin when it stops working), at our main home we have an "unlimited" SIM that cost about £14 per month, again from Scancom.

The routers are TP-Link NX200 5G routers, the SIMs are on EE. These routers are quite good in that you can set download alarms, monitor use, etc. We get quite good signals from EE at both locations.

No idea about phone extensions as we use mobile phones.

littleboo

Are you wanting to keep your landline number when moving to a mobile broadband based service?

Clive_Woody

Presumably you'd need some kind of VOIP subscription if you want to use a "landline" from your new router. Surely it would be easier to just use a mobile phone in this instance as your data would be coming from a 5G signal for the landline set-up.

Apologies if I am getting confused here, I am no tech expert.

NotArobot24

FelixTCat said:

Currently I have a landline connection for both phone and broadband, even though the phone is routed over the internet. I would like to replace this with a sim card router since I don't use a great deal of data and can get a 120GB sim for £10 per month instead of the £40+ I'm currently paying.

I have 5 or 6 phone extensions around the house which I want to keep, so the router will need a phone plug or other way of linking the phones to the router to make calls.

Does anyone have any ideas, please?

Damn just lost a long reply to this and so called My Drafts page could not recover it. 

I don't know if I have the mental energy to rewrite it but I will do it offline and paste it here if I can.

Long story short, is do not do it but I will try to explain why and all of your options as I had in the lost post. 

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FelixTCat

Thanks for your replies so far. I want to keep my existing phone set-up, which is connected to my current router by a phone jack on the router. The individual phones are connected to the base unit by wi-fi, so I only need a good 5G signal at the router. In this way, I can answer an incoming phone call from just about anywhere in the house without carrying my mobile phone around.

I know I won't be able to keep my current landline number - I will just give my contacts the new mobile number for the sim in the router.

QrizB

FelixTCat said:

I know I won't be able to keep my current landline number - I will just give my contacts the new mobile number for the sim in the router.

There are ways to keep your landline number, if you wish to do so.