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Cheap 5g phone to tether to router?

iluvsnowlc

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For the past few months, three has been dropping connection alot in my area, since I've got a cpe pro 2 on three hooked up to a router with the failover feature that supports phone tethering as an second input as well, I was wondering if there were any cheap 5g phones I could effectively use a backup with another network.
 
Yes, you can tether off most phones.
I use a Xiaomi mi 10t lite 5g for this for example.
Mind you, cheap models come with USB v2 usually, so speed will be limited to that, around 300 Mbps max.
 
For the past few months, three has been dropping connection alot in my area, since I've got a cpe pro 2 on three hooked up to a router with the failover feature that supports phone tethering as an second input as well, I was wondering if there were any cheap 5g phones I could effectively use a backup with another network.
Sanity check, does https://cellmapper.net show your location is sufficiently bad for Three that those drops are expected?
 
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I live in Manchester city centre so it is a really good area, but I WFH at night (12am-8am) and this tends to be the time when they do all their maintenances and it doesn't help that my broadband and phone are on three 😅
They shouldn't carry out maintenance on all masts in range at the same time. SIM failover is probably slower than switching masts. Are you sure the instability is not elsewhere separate from Three's network?
 
I only really have a good signal to 1 mast since the building I'm in is fully built out of thick concrete and I only have windows facing in one direction, I have checked cellmapper and I've seen Vodafone and ee have different masts closer by so they might be even better anyways
 
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