coldcuppatea
Casual Member
Good afternoon,
I have signed up to this forum as a last ditch attempt to try and figure out what I need to do in order to improve my 4G home broadband speeds. I would hugely appreciate it if anyone here is able to take the time to read through this post and give me the benefit of your experience.
For the last 15 months I have been on Three's unlimited 4G home broadband service using their supplied Huawei AI Cube, aka B900-232. During this time I have been unimpressed with the download speeds that I have been getting, which have generally been around 10-15mbps. During sign up to the service I took the Cat 6 LTE B900 router as I was told by Three that I would get faster speeds than the cheaper alternative Cat 4 that they were also offering.
The 4G mast that I connect to is situated in the next door property to my house, exactly 28 metres away from the router with a direct line of sight, hence my disappointment at the speeds that I have been getting.
My wife is on a Three contract and is able to get speeds of around 30mbps on her iPhone X. I assumed that Three were just applying some sort of throttling to the home broadband account, but the other day I tried switching the SIM cards around and found that the home broadband one gave 30mbps on her iPhone and her SIM dropped back to 15mbps in the B900.
I then tried both SIM cards in my iPhone 11 Pro and got between 40 and 50mbps with both cards.
This got me thinking that maybe it was something to do with the "Cat" specification of the modems in the different devices. I tried the SIM cards in an old LTE iPad Air 2, which I believe is a Cat 4, and only achieved 10mbps. However, when browsing these forums I see that people further away from their nearest mast than I am are getting much higher speeds on the B900.
I've scoured the internet for a higher "Cat" modem at a halfway reasonable price, but most seem to be Cat 6 and the only Cat 16 one that seems to come up is the Netgear MR1100, which at £300 is more than I want to spend, but would certainly buy it if I could be sure that it would give me significantly faster speeds.
I now have LTE H-Monitor running, so I can supply any information that is available in that if it would help troubleshoot my issue.
Thanks for reading if you got this far, and I really hope someone in the know can shed some light on this for me.
Regards,
Rhys
I have signed up to this forum as a last ditch attempt to try and figure out what I need to do in order to improve my 4G home broadband speeds. I would hugely appreciate it if anyone here is able to take the time to read through this post and give me the benefit of your experience.
For the last 15 months I have been on Three's unlimited 4G home broadband service using their supplied Huawei AI Cube, aka B900-232. During this time I have been unimpressed with the download speeds that I have been getting, which have generally been around 10-15mbps. During sign up to the service I took the Cat 6 LTE B900 router as I was told by Three that I would get faster speeds than the cheaper alternative Cat 4 that they were also offering.
The 4G mast that I connect to is situated in the next door property to my house, exactly 28 metres away from the router with a direct line of sight, hence my disappointment at the speeds that I have been getting.
My wife is on a Three contract and is able to get speeds of around 30mbps on her iPhone X. I assumed that Three were just applying some sort of throttling to the home broadband account, but the other day I tried switching the SIM cards around and found that the home broadband one gave 30mbps on her iPhone and her SIM dropped back to 15mbps in the B900.
I then tried both SIM cards in my iPhone 11 Pro and got between 40 and 50mbps with both cards.
This got me thinking that maybe it was something to do with the "Cat" specification of the modems in the different devices. I tried the SIM cards in an old LTE iPad Air 2, which I believe is a Cat 4, and only achieved 10mbps. However, when browsing these forums I see that people further away from their nearest mast than I am are getting much higher speeds on the B900.
I've scoured the internet for a higher "Cat" modem at a halfway reasonable price, but most seem to be Cat 6 and the only Cat 16 one that seems to come up is the Netgear MR1100, which at £300 is more than I want to spend, but would certainly buy it if I could be sure that it would give me significantly faster speeds.
I now have LTE H-Monitor running, so I can supply any information that is available in that if it would help troubleshoot my issue.
Thanks for reading if you got this far, and I really hope someone in the know can shed some light on this for me.
Regards,
Rhys