Does anyone have experience of this, and more importantly, is it any good?

Thanks

  • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.ukEnglish
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    19 days ago

    I didn’t know they did an outdoor hub. I’ve been using a Three 5G broadband hub for a few years. I bought my own Pointing external antenna and connected it to the hub. It works well. The antenna boosts the signal significantly (I forget how much exactly).

    The issue I have isn’t the hub or antenna, it’s Three themselves. Quite often the 5G gets slow, as in unusably slow. The signal is strong so I assume it’s an issue with their masta or over subscribed. It doesn’t happen as much these days though.

    Because I was unsure when I first wanted one I opted for a monthly contract and not a year. It allowed me to test how well it works before cancelling my existing broadband.

  • Apocalypteroid@feddit.ukEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Yes. I live in a fairly rural location and can’t get full fibre yet so I thought I’d give it a punt. After a fair few teething issues I now get consistent speeds of around 300mbps which is much better than anything else in the area and is incredibly cheap as well. (If you sing up through uswitch then it’s only £17 a month)

    Cons: You’ll have to find a spot outside where you get decent 5g signal, which might mean climbing up a ladder and screwing it to the wall. Personally, I had a bit of a nightmare setting it up because it doesn’t like open VPN protocols and their India based tech support were useless and lied to me when they couldn’t solve my problem.

    Overall, I would say if you can’t get cable fibre then it’s worth giving it a try, you get a 30 day trial period so can return it really easily if you don’t get on with it. I’m pretty pleased with it despite the teething troubles, however given my customer experience, will probably look elsewhere when I am able.

  • Baggins@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Thanks for that - 5G signal here is pretty poor so probably not going to make a significant improvement. Still, I have about a year before Virgin contract ends so there maybe an improvement in the 5G network (it’s been promised for over a year) or BT may even get round to putting fibre into our estate. Not going to hold my breath there though.

    Other wise I’ll have to settle for a paltry 30 mbps that I’ll get over the BT Network.

    It really does piss me off to see all these claims of ‘up to’ this or that. If it’s on BT network - you can’t improve it. And I know the network here is naff :-(