Cluckingdeath
Regular Member
Hi All,
We’re about to move to a rural area leaving behind our lovely 70/18 FTTC. 4g broadband is a new concept to me, I have some idea about networking but this site has fried my mind.
I currently run BT whole home disks behind our R7000 and it does the job but I plan on upgrading this with some ubiquit Kit (any pointers welcome!)
We can get somewhere around 8/0.8 on FTTC in the new place so thats a no go.
We’re with three for mobiles and in the village I could hit 70down on my iphone but I am not keen to use them for broadband From what I have read.
From what I can fathom, there are two EE towers with bands 3 and 20 within about 1/4 and 1/2 a mile of the new place.
My main issue is I work from home and also run a server at home which needs a decent and reliable connection to the outside world as a fixed IP, but this could be achieved another way?
So I am wondering about sticking with Plusnet for home phone (emergencies) and to have the reliability (?!) and failsafe of a fixed line, along with “some EE plan” and “some 4g modem” (B535?) and “some twin WAN router”(something Vigor?) with automatic switchover
We’re currently using 200-300gb a month at the moment, mostly streaming and the odd bit of oculus or Fortnite gaming
Any assistance appreciated
/edit just leaving some notes
Mikrotik SXT LTE
We’re about to move to a rural area leaving behind our lovely 70/18 FTTC. 4g broadband is a new concept to me, I have some idea about networking but this site has fried my mind.
I currently run BT whole home disks behind our R7000 and it does the job but I plan on upgrading this with some ubiquit Kit (any pointers welcome!)
We can get somewhere around 8/0.8 on FTTC in the new place so thats a no go.
We’re with three for mobiles and in the village I could hit 70down on my iphone but I am not keen to use them for broadband From what I have read.
From what I can fathom, there are two EE towers with bands 3 and 20 within about 1/4 and 1/2 a mile of the new place.
My main issue is I work from home and also run a server at home which needs a decent and reliable connection to the outside world as a fixed IP, but this could be achieved another way?
So I am wondering about sticking with Plusnet for home phone (emergencies) and to have the reliability (?!) and failsafe of a fixed line, along with “some EE plan” and “some 4g modem” (B535?) and “some twin WAN router”(something Vigor?) with automatic switchover
We’re currently using 200-300gb a month at the moment, mostly streaming and the odd bit of oculus or Fortnite gaming
Any assistance appreciated
/edit just leaving some notes
Mikrotik SXT LTE
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