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I thought it would still be there - from the streetview photo I included above it looks to be further away from the road compared to the camouflaged one!
The tall trees probably aren't helping with signal levels in the area, though if you ensure that if you test with EE/Three you have a clear-ish line of sight in that direction (minimal buildings in the way) then at least you're giving the testing the best chance of seeing the best signal.
 
I'll echo Lucian and say don't just go with three off the bat. Try different sims from different carriers first.
+1.

I was with Three since 2016, using a mobile phone SIM in a router, long before they started promoting home 4G broadband. This year, end of March their performance absolutely went off a cliff.

It used to be 100% reliable, such that I would forget to reboot the router for a couple of months. And I used to get 60 - 80Mbps consistently with 75% signal.

But something changed. Their backhaul and core was fast, is now absolutely dire, and this happened to me overnight. Correspondingly, you will see a lot of positive reviews for Three, but check the dates because they are all 2019 or earlier.

It's consistent with reports across the UK, all around the same time. So it seems like a business decision to me, either that or a bunch of common components somehow all failed at once right across the UK. Seems very unlikely.

I tried for 7 months with considerable effort and some expense to work it through with them. Signal remained at 75% as it had for last 4 years, but only got 5Mbps. I did managed to get up above 15Mbps by locking the bands, but still crap.

I switched to EE this week and now I've back to 60 - 80 Mbps.

By all means give Three a try, but have an extensive test. Not just a few days. I took out a new contract / new SIM / new router with them as one of the diagnosis steps, and got 30Mbps for 28 days. Day 29 it was back under 5Mbps and stayed there for months.
 
I know the feeling BFG, I've been with three for 13 months now, gone from 100Mbps+(during my cooling off period) to around 25Mbps at best now with below 10Mbps most evenings. All the while my routers shows the same 5 bars and 18-20 SINR. On top of this for some reason I can't resolve any webpages at all on 3internet APN now either, I have to use the three.co.uk. APN instead.

It wouldn't be as bad if Three showed their customers they actually were bothered about keeping them happy and resolved technical issues when they arise. Instead they run the company in a way where you can't speak to anyone 90% of the time and when you do they constantly lie to customers.
Its become the norm "in three land" to simply downright refuse to accept they have "ANY" problems. IMHO Threes "operating malpractice" means its totally pointless contacting them nowadays.

Three are living in cloud cuckoo land if they think that's the way to run a company.

But then again, it works for Plusnet, Talk-Talk and Virgin, (and OFCOM continue to remain a toothless Quango), so why wouldn't it work for Three?
 
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