dg121
Casual Member
Hi All,
I've recently joined this forum and have been going through some of the posts, it's been a great help! I'm moving to a new city and seem to have got terribly unlucky to be renting seemingly the only flat in the city centre that cannot get anything beyond ADSL broadband. Very strange considering every property directly around my block of flats, ironically some sharing the same actual building, can get fibre fine.
Thankfully since stumbling across this place I've realised I can turn to 4g mobile broadband as a viable solution. I have a few questions though and I'm a little confused on best setup. I should benefit, from what I can tell so far, from the various masts around the city and likely not need any external antenna, which is great considering it's a rented flat and I couldn't mount anything external. However, I'm a little confused as some providers state coverage in my area where as third party coverage maps suggests lightly differently.
What would be the best most accurate way of figuring out which network is likely to be the best one to go with?
In terms of routers I'm looking for the best I can get in the £100-£150 mark and so far have noted the Huawei B535 and the TP Link Archer MR600 V2 as potentially the best options. Though have heard the Huawei B618, 818 as two possibly better solutions?
Lastly, is there any advantage of using the 4g router as just the router for the connection and get secondary wireless router to connect to the 4g router for providing wifi within the flat, or can you just rely on all of that in one bit of kit fairly confidently?
I have just a 1 bedroom flat so nothing huge in terms of area coverage for the wifi.
Thanks in advance for help and pointers!
I've recently joined this forum and have been going through some of the posts, it's been a great help! I'm moving to a new city and seem to have got terribly unlucky to be renting seemingly the only flat in the city centre that cannot get anything beyond ADSL broadband. Very strange considering every property directly around my block of flats, ironically some sharing the same actual building, can get fibre fine.
Thankfully since stumbling across this place I've realised I can turn to 4g mobile broadband as a viable solution. I have a few questions though and I'm a little confused on best setup. I should benefit, from what I can tell so far, from the various masts around the city and likely not need any external antenna, which is great considering it's a rented flat and I couldn't mount anything external. However, I'm a little confused as some providers state coverage in my area where as third party coverage maps suggests lightly differently.
What would be the best most accurate way of figuring out which network is likely to be the best one to go with?
In terms of routers I'm looking for the best I can get in the £100-£150 mark and so far have noted the Huawei B535 and the TP Link Archer MR600 V2 as potentially the best options. Though have heard the Huawei B618, 818 as two possibly better solutions?
Lastly, is there any advantage of using the 4g router as just the router for the connection and get secondary wireless router to connect to the 4g router for providing wifi within the flat, or can you just rely on all of that in one bit of kit fairly confidently?
I have just a 1 bedroom flat so nothing huge in terms of area coverage for the wifi.
Thanks in advance for help and pointers!