jro
Member
Hi all,
I'm moving to a rural location in Wiltshire in the next few weeks. The house was due to be getting Gigaclear 900mbps connection by the end of 2019, but checking the rollout website, it now appears it's now been pushed back, and is not going to arrive until Q4 2020 (and will probably end up getting pushed back further). BT suggest that I might be able to get "up to" 9mbps and a guarantee of 1.5mbps.
Yesterday, we went for a walk around the area to check mobile signal speeds. Outside of the house, using fast.com, my wife on EE got around 110mbps on an iPhone XS, and I got 13mbps on Three on the same phone.
Later, I checked Opensignal, and I can see that there are three EE masts within 0.5 to 2km away from the house. Mastdata shows no masts anywhere nearby, but I suspect that is a bit out of date. The nearest Three mast is quite a bit further away. Going for EE seems a no brainer, despite being more expensive per month than Three.
1. The Huawei B525 looks like a reasonable price, but have also looked at the B618. Would the B618 actually offer any significant speed improvements? Am I likely to get the same speeds using those as I have done with my phone?
2. Has anybody used the EE unlimited phone data tariff (£34 per month) for home broadband, and experienced any issues or pushback from them? Their Mobile Broadband deals only offer up to 300gb per month, which I can easily exceed regularly, and are significantly more expensive (£45pm) than the Unlimited sim only deal.
3. Given the proximity of the EE masts to the property, would you recommend using an Omni-Directional antenna, or is a directional antenna still going to be more powerful? Can a 4g router connect to more than one mast at a time?
Many thanks for your help.
I'm moving to a rural location in Wiltshire in the next few weeks. The house was due to be getting Gigaclear 900mbps connection by the end of 2019, but checking the rollout website, it now appears it's now been pushed back, and is not going to arrive until Q4 2020 (and will probably end up getting pushed back further). BT suggest that I might be able to get "up to" 9mbps and a guarantee of 1.5mbps.
Yesterday, we went for a walk around the area to check mobile signal speeds. Outside of the house, using fast.com, my wife on EE got around 110mbps on an iPhone XS, and I got 13mbps on Three on the same phone.
Later, I checked Opensignal, and I can see that there are three EE masts within 0.5 to 2km away from the house. Mastdata shows no masts anywhere nearby, but I suspect that is a bit out of date. The nearest Three mast is quite a bit further away. Going for EE seems a no brainer, despite being more expensive per month than Three.
1. The Huawei B525 looks like a reasonable price, but have also looked at the B618. Would the B618 actually offer any significant speed improvements? Am I likely to get the same speeds using those as I have done with my phone?
2. Has anybody used the EE unlimited phone data tariff (£34 per month) for home broadband, and experienced any issues or pushback from them? Their Mobile Broadband deals only offer up to 300gb per month, which I can easily exceed regularly, and are significantly more expensive (£45pm) than the Unlimited sim only deal.
3. Given the proximity of the EE masts to the property, would you recommend using an Omni-Directional antenna, or is a directional antenna still going to be more powerful? Can a 4g router connect to more than one mast at a time?
Many thanks for your help.