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EE 5G broadband limitations?

silus

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Hi,
EE have recently deployed 5G around this area and it looks like i'll get a pretty strong signal at home. As FTTP looks to be some considerable way off I am considering their 5G broadband.

What are the drawbacks of this? I have read that they use carrier grade NAT so gaming will be a no-go, is this correct? Any other limitations I should be aware of? thanks
 
Hi,
EE have recently deployed 5G around this area and it looks like i'll get a pretty strong signal at home. As FTTP looks to be some considerable way off I am considering their 5G broadband.

What are the drawbacks of this? I have read that they use carrier grade NAT so gaming will be a no-go, is this correct? Any other limitations I should be aware of? thanks
Hi silus, welcome along to the forums.

EE have a FUP of 650 GB and yes, it's only three that have non CGNAT using their 3internet APN.

Also, depending on the band EE use for 5G will decide on the speed you can get if that's important to you.

EE are using n28 here in Kilwinning rather than the more common n78 for 5G, so speeds are comparible to 4G rather than super fast 5G if you like.

Right at the mast I can get 120 megs, but on three using n78, it's usually way more speedy.

I've been using 4G for my broadband for many years now and it's generally been pretty reliable, but it can suffer from problems with mast maintenance resulting in terrible speeds and disconnections for days on end, also adverse weather can cause problems with the signal too.

Other than these infrequent problems, it's been fine for me, my Xbox works great as I'm on three though, not EE, and no problems with any of streaming apps either, 4K included.

Patiently awaiting on 5G here from three. 😊
 
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Thanks, maybe i'll wait for Three to improve their 5G around here rather than bother with EE. Currently the coverage map shows only coverage for outdoors, hopefully they improve it to in+outdoors in the near future.
 
Thanks, maybe i'll wait for Three to improve their 5G around here rather than bother with EE. Currently the coverage map shows only coverage for outdoors, hopefully they improve it to in+outdoors in the near future.
Yes the EE coverage map shows outdoor coverage for me too because I'm not too near the mast, it does on an odd occasion connect to n28 5G, but speeds are much worse than 4G for me.
 
Thanks, maybe i'll wait for Three to improve their 5G around here rather than bother with EE. Currently the coverage map shows only coverage for outdoors, hopefully they improve it to in+outdoors in the near future.
EE are currently Rolling Out n78, n28, n1 and I some places n3 and n7, as @The Wee Bear correctly points out, n78 Band is the one you want for decent Speed and n28 is the least one, there is no way to tell from EE,s Coverage Checker, if you PM your Post Code I can probably tell you whether you can get the n78 Band.

Chris.
 
I am 5G only at the moment, but I have 3 networks, lyca (EE) unlimited (but with 650GB fair use lol), three unlimited, and O2 (80GB cap). I require internet to do my job as I work 100% remotely from home. I have to have more than one link because not having internet means I don't get paid.

Three installed 5G here in 2019 and I was a very early adopter and it had been absolutely amazing, until a few months ago. When my 600+ megabit 5G kept going offline, and is now often down to 20-30mbit and three tell me nothing is wrong. But I show them dates and times when it's working normally over 300mbit, and when it suddenly drops down to 20mbit. They blame me, my equipment etc, basically everything but themselves.

There is no fibre here, Openreach wired up the town but decided not to do my street because it has G.Fast, but we have a 299m long line and G.Fast just doesn't work at those distances.

I had good success with three 5G but for whatever reason, things are not going good now and I don't know why exactly. So there is the possibility with 5G that one day you might get horrible speeds, and the mobile company won't bother to fix it. Having two different networks and two modems makes that problem a bit easier to live with. Latency can sometimes be an issue as well. In the early days I saw amazingly low pings between 15-20ms, but now I seem to get pings of 30+ ms. I'm on the same mast i've always been on and my modems are locked to specific bands (The ones that give best throughput).

Oh and I recently discovered that the three / EE mast is shared and has no backup power, because when the power went out, that mast was taken completely offline and only my O2 contract worked. I had figured they would have a generator or some backup power, but it would appear they don't.

Three has no CGNAT at all if you use the right APN (3Internet) to connect. You get a real IP and you can port-forward with it. I've not had any problem gaming with it.
 
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