Lucian
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@tartanGuru where do you see that?
It’s in my upgrade offers when I log into my account. I also have a £28 option that includes a bundle item like britbox@tartanGuru where do you see that?
Good spot - I hadn't logged in for a while so completely missed that.It’s in my upgrade offers when I log into my account. I also have a £28 option that includes a bundle item like britbox
Yes - I'm in two minds as whether to upgrade to this deal or not, although the 4g speeds that I get (60mbps+) far outweigh the BT FTTC offering in the village which maxes out at 23mps on a good day, so I am likely to stick with EE. According to a friend with a modern iPhone there is a whiff of 5g nearby (although I'm not sure which mast it is coming from) which might be useful in the future. Interesting Starlink were willing to sell me a dish for my address when I checked this morning but £89 a month is a little excessive!Decisions, decisions...
what do you mean by cables? connect to BT?
we are looking for something that can be moved about. Plus we have no idea at the moment where the best places would be for the cables to go for the best signal/connection. Thank you for you idea anyway.They mean network cables, if you're renovating the house now is the time to put in network cables. Have a read up on installing network cables (it's actually very easy), it really is the way to go - I did my whole house years ago and now have some of it running at 10Gbps. Network cable is far more reliable than wi-fi, and if you have thick stone internal walls then you really need network cable between areas, and then install access points for where you require wi-fi.
we got the unlimited sim from EE in May. In Dec we got a letter saying we was using over 1TB within the month. They said they have the right to limit our traffic at busy periods. i am in the process of carrying out tests over 72hours. We had the Huawei B535-232 from May 2020 to Dec 2021, which was working great. Totally forgot about the letter errrr and returned the unit. A couple of weeks ago we brought the Orbi LTE 4G £370 for just the router and still it was no better, that was collected yesterday errrr. Now we are trying the Huawei b818, no better than the cheaper B535. I have compared unlimited ee sim and my mobile ee sim and they are similar speeds. I have no idea what is going on errrrrEvening all,
Wondering if any of you have experienced the same issue.
New B818-263 with EE sim card (unlimited data contract), doing a test 50m from a mast that according to cellmapper has 2x B3s and 1x B20 (all EE). First night I tested it the download speed was 80 - 100 Mbps and Upload around 50Mbps, following day (and ever since) the download speed does not go above 25Mbps but upload is still +50Mbps. The router config page shows 4G+ so I assume carrier aggregation is active.
Any advice please?
Thanks.
Evening all,
Wondering if any of you have experienced the same issue.
New B818-263 with EE sim card (unlimited data contract), doing a test 50m from a mast that according to cellmapper has 2x B3s and 1x B20 (all EE). First night I tested it the download speed was 80 - 100 Mbps and Upload around 50Mbps, following day (and ever since) the download speed does not go above 25Mbps but upload is still +50Mbps. The router config page shows 4G+ so I assume carrier aggregation is active.
Any advice please?
Thanks.
Well that's all part of renovating a house, how do you decide where to put plug sockets, TV aerial sockets, telephone sockets? You think of the most likely places you need them and put them there. Same goes for network sockets, you can put multiple sockets around a room, run them back to a central point where you have a patch panel and connect only the sockets you need to use. Access points can be fitted on the ceiling and use power over ethernet. My Wi-Fi access point is in the loft, and another in a room that gets poor signal,all connected via network cables to a central point where my router is.we are looking for something that can be moved about. Plus we have no idea at the moment where the best places would be for the cables to go for the best signal/connection. Thank you for you idea anyway.
I really don't understand what your trying to say, but if you're trying to solve poor WiFi coverage by constantly changing the router it's not going to work. You've said you have thick stone walls, WiFi does not travel well through thick stones walls, you can't change physics.we got the unlimited sim from EE in May. In Dec we got a letter saying we was using over 1TB within the month. They said they have the right to limit our traffic at busy periods. i am in the process of carrying out tests over 72hours. We had the Huawei B535-232 from May 2020 to Dec 2021, which was working great. Totally forgot about the letter errrr and returned the unit. A couple of weeks ago we brought the Orbi LTE 4G £370 for just the router and still it was no better, that was collected yesterday errrr. Now we are trying the Huawei b818, no better than the cheaper B535. I have compared unlimited ee sim and my mobile ee sim and they are similar speeds. I have no idea what is going on errrrr
Thanks for the tip @dabigm , unfortunatelly, I have locked B3 using the HuaCtrl and the speeds are farily similar (17Mbps Download / 47Mbps Uplaod / 52ms latency).Carrier aggregation does not always mean faster speed. Especially when B20 is involved. If mine does CA with B3+B20 I get horrible speeds. If I lock it to B3 only, then I get 70+ . Try locking the router to just B3. (Use Huactl app for example)
Slightly worse results when testing with a phone @Ronski 16Mbps down /18Mbps up.@dnietzsche what do you get if you test with a phone? Often the download is congested and the upload is fine. Try very late at night, or very early in the morning.
It could be a mast issue - my local mast EE is around 2km away and has 2 x B3 which with 4G+ gives me 195 down in the dead of night and 50 at peak times (it's near a motorway). Conversely, your upload is way better than mine (I get 15 max these days).Slightly worse results when testing with a phone @Ronski 16Mbps down /18Mbps up.
I am tempted to say there is something wrong with the mast, I have not tested in the late evenings or very early in the morning but the mast location is in the middle of the north pennines with extremely low population density so unlikelly to be "too" congested.