IceBoy
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Hi All,
I've just spent hours trawling through all the post and some very interesting reading for me!
We moved in to the country 2 years ago and suffered with BT broadband at 0.3mb. It was basically unusable.
I then purchased a TP-Link Mobile hotspot type thing and put an O2 sim with 25gb.
I have two teenage boys and this was not enough as you can imagine. I finally found a company called NOTSPOT, who installed an antenna on the side of my house and ran 2 cables (5m max) to a mini router with a EE sim inside.
Up until then I was sceptical as we only got O2 reception in our home but this service worked wonders.
We get between 18-30mb/s down and 10-12mb/s up which is more than enough for us.
This deal comes to an end in the next 3 or so months and I want to be able to shop around for the sim deal. So a couple of questions:
1. Am I right in thinking I could use the same router and insert a 3 or Vodafone sim inside?
2. Do I need to stick to EE sim?
3. I don't have the model of this mini router (I'm at work) but it is the size of a cigarette pack and has two screw things, where the antenna cables screw into, can I get a better router and use the existing antenna on the side of my house?
Help, what should I do? Is the world my oyster now that I have this Pringle tube antenna? Or do I need to stick to EE?
IceBoy
PS. NOTSPOt sent an installation engineer and he was testing speeds and signal strength, which I guess was related to EE only? Then installed it at the best location on our home?
I've just spent hours trawling through all the post and some very interesting reading for me!
We moved in to the country 2 years ago and suffered with BT broadband at 0.3mb. It was basically unusable.
I then purchased a TP-Link Mobile hotspot type thing and put an O2 sim with 25gb.
I have two teenage boys and this was not enough as you can imagine. I finally found a company called NOTSPOT, who installed an antenna on the side of my house and ran 2 cables (5m max) to a mini router with a EE sim inside.
Up until then I was sceptical as we only got O2 reception in our home but this service worked wonders.
We get between 18-30mb/s down and 10-12mb/s up which is more than enough for us.
This deal comes to an end in the next 3 or so months and I want to be able to shop around for the sim deal. So a couple of questions:
1. Am I right in thinking I could use the same router and insert a 3 or Vodafone sim inside?
2. Do I need to stick to EE sim?
3. I don't have the model of this mini router (I'm at work) but it is the size of a cigarette pack and has two screw things, where the antenna cables screw into, can I get a better router and use the existing antenna on the side of my house?
Help, what should I do? Is the world my oyster now that I have this Pringle tube antenna? Or do I need to stick to EE?
IceBoy
PS. NOTSPOt sent an installation engineer and he was testing speeds and signal strength, which I guess was related to EE only? Then installed it at the best location on our home?