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How to find out if the 5G is enabled on a mast.

@JitteryPinger covers pretty much everything - however I'd add that Three/EE's sharing agreement is usually just the mast, sometimes the antennas (pre 5G), and occasionally the backhaul, e.g. if its microwave and their hubs are the same site it makes no sense to setup 2 MW links - rather they just split/allocated a portion of a single link per provider.

Also, with Three/EE's separate antennas they could be oriented in different directions, and/or have different tilt's applied, depending on what other sites exist in the surrounding area and what coverage/interference avoidance is required from a given site. Those physical differences could also impact coverage/speeds in a specific location.
 
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Maybe a daft question, but as the 5G side of things on Three has no dedicated upload, if/when they do enable it, will it work on my CPE Pro? Or will it just be stuck at 4G forever?
 
Maybe a daft question, but as the 5G side of things on Three has no dedicated upload, if/when they do enable it, will it work on my CPE Pro? Or will it just be stuck at 4G forever?

Not sure what you're asking, but Three do have UL over their 5G carrier, at least I've seen it 'allowed' on devices where speed tests show 100+Mbps upload - perhaps there is a device restriction for routers though (I don't have 5G near me yet to be able to confirm either way)
 
Not sure what you're asking, but Three do have UL over their 5G carrier, at least I've seen it 'allowed' on devices where speed tests show 100+Mbps upload - perhaps there is a device restriction for routers though (I don't have 5G near me yet to be able to confirm either way)

Ok, bad data on my part then. My upload is 70mbps so just wrongly assumed that was 4G restricted.

Is there anything I can do to find out about the upload restrictions, or anything I can change in the router settings to maybe alter it?
 
High double digits/perhaps into the 100's for 4G+5G dual-connectivity upload sounds about right - assuming 30-40Mbps (on a good day) comes from 4G B3 + up to 90 or so from 5G.

Remember, n78 is a TDD band, meaning that every n slice of transmission is uplink, usually 1 in 10 or so; leading to a 10:1 ratio of downlink vs uplink (e.g. 900Mbps down=90Mbps up)

And no, there isn't anything you can change in your device - its all configured network side.
 
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Cheers, still learning. It's like a black art wireless comms.
Not as much as the way sky has set up WiFi in sky Q 😳😳. Now THAT'S black magic.
 
Never mind the 5G milarky, what are EE or three up to with my 4G, down to 15Mb since this morning, it's an injustice, have they no shame? :rolleyes: :giggle:

How am I supposed to stream my 4K or update my Xbox games with that? Pah!
 

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I know this post hasn’t been updated for a while but can anyone tell me if this is a 5g mast pls
 

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Copied my response from your other post...

From what you've photo'd it looks like a Phase 8 monopole, which are commonly used to host 5G. However without seeing the top, particularly the top most antennas, it's impossible to tell if there are any 5G antennas installed on it.

Edit: your other option would be to lookup the location/address on your local council's planning website and see if there are any submitted plans for that location, and if so what the plans contain.
 
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