karambajani
Casual Member
Hi all,
I found this forum whilst doing my research on internet options and you lot seem like you really know what you're talking about so I was hoping you could help me. Long story short - I am moving into a flat in London in 2 weeks and have stupidly not checked the internet options before. I have now found out that I cannot get fibre and, having called a few providers, the best speeds I can get were 7.2 - 14.1 mbps download and 1-3 mbps upload. I'm worried this isn't enough to work from home for 2 people and to stream / play light video games.
As a result I'm thinking of 4g/5g broadband. I went back to the property the other day and tested the speeds on my phone. Vodafone had excellent 4g and spotty 5g, which would work in some places in the flat but revert to 4g in others. O2 does not have great coverage. I checked BIDB as per the recommendations here and EE should have good 4g and 5g there as well but I haven't been able to test that in person. As it's a flat I'm unable to hang an antenna outside to improve signal / get starlink.
I'm now thinking of either getting Vodafone's gigacube. The representatitve advised 5g is up to 430 mbps down / 20 mbps up and 4g is up to 36mbps down, 18 mbps up, which seems enough. I would also be open to buying my own 4g/5g router and getting an unlimited sim card from another provider myself if that is substantially better.
Does anyone have any advice on this? Has anyone tried Vodafone's gigacube and is it any good? Is there an option that I missed I should consider? As my partner and I both work from home I don't mind to spend some money to get good internet. The flat is in SE23 somewhere and is on a hill if that makes any difference. Our requirements are general WFH, including video calls on Teams and accessing/editing files from a shared drive, as well as light gaming on MMORPGs and video streaming (no FPS or heavy games).
To add, the rest of my street all has fibre, called / emailed the companies and they currently have no plans to sort it for our building - not sure why.. We are also unable to get Virgin or Sky options.
Grateful for feedback/thoughts/advice if anyone can spare some on this Sunday!
I found this forum whilst doing my research on internet options and you lot seem like you really know what you're talking about so I was hoping you could help me. Long story short - I am moving into a flat in London in 2 weeks and have stupidly not checked the internet options before. I have now found out that I cannot get fibre and, having called a few providers, the best speeds I can get were 7.2 - 14.1 mbps download and 1-3 mbps upload. I'm worried this isn't enough to work from home for 2 people and to stream / play light video games.
As a result I'm thinking of 4g/5g broadband. I went back to the property the other day and tested the speeds on my phone. Vodafone had excellent 4g and spotty 5g, which would work in some places in the flat but revert to 4g in others. O2 does not have great coverage. I checked BIDB as per the recommendations here and EE should have good 4g and 5g there as well but I haven't been able to test that in person. As it's a flat I'm unable to hang an antenna outside to improve signal / get starlink.
I'm now thinking of either getting Vodafone's gigacube. The representatitve advised 5g is up to 430 mbps down / 20 mbps up and 4g is up to 36mbps down, 18 mbps up, which seems enough. I would also be open to buying my own 4g/5g router and getting an unlimited sim card from another provider myself if that is substantially better.
Does anyone have any advice on this? Has anyone tried Vodafone's gigacube and is it any good? Is there an option that I missed I should consider? As my partner and I both work from home I don't mind to spend some money to get good internet. The flat is in SE23 somewhere and is on a hill if that makes any difference. Our requirements are general WFH, including video calls on Teams and accessing/editing files from a shared drive, as well as light gaming on MMORPGs and video streaming (no FPS or heavy games).
To add, the rest of my street all has fibre, called / emailed the companies and they currently have no plans to sort it for our building - not sure why.. We are also unable to get Virgin or Sky options.
Grateful for feedback/thoughts/advice if anyone can spare some on this Sunday!























