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I'm just about to order a sim to test EE's service at home. I was going to order a 1p Mobile sim but they want £10 for their PAYG sim. Is there any reason why this deal:


wouldn't be ok for my testing purposes. Presumably I can just let it expire after 30 days ?
 
EE's Coverage Checker shows that 4G and 5G are "Excellent" indoors and out, but then so does Vodafone's!
EE says that for 4G here when in reality it's limited indoors (-113dBm to no service)

They're only estimations, don't trust it
 
EE says that for 4G here when in reality it's limited indoors (-113dBm to no service)

They're only estimations, don't trust it
I'm a big proponent of checking signal parameters when bad measured throughput is seen but it's important to note that the signal parameters don't entirely predict what measured performance will be (short of causing a "disconnected" state).

As a concrete example, I see n78 RSRP-5G-NSA of -116 dBm but this supports over 100 Mbps down and can reach 200 Mbps down in the early morning. This was not at all what I expected when I saw the signal parameter connected to a tower a fair bit further away than I've been used to in the previous four years in my location.

The cliché is that digital signalling and modulation is all-or-nothing the caveat is that once you have "all" you might need to devote some of the channel resources for error correction and therefore have deteriorated measured throughput performance, but given 100 MHz bandwidth of n78, a lot of deterioration can be sustained compared to 4G LTE+.

Sometimes, the best approach is to carry out an empirical test with some minor optimization to double check that things truly are as bad as would be predicted.

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