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No FTTP availability at my address, is 5G home broadband my best option?

Dhalgren

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Hi there,

So I currently have Sky SuperFast Broadband at my home address, this is the fastest option available to me, and is the same for all other providers when I search for the best broadband for my area. Virgin Media is not available, and FTTP is not available at my property via OpenReach yet either, so my fastest available option is around 60Mbps, give or take.

I do a lot of gaming, and downloading of games, and for this I mainly use my EE 5G on my phone as a hot spot, as I actually get around 600Mbps using this, sometimes more, sometimes a bit less. The 5G mast is across the road from my flat, so it's usually very good, the only problem is that even though they advertise my data plan as 'unlimited', I get capped at 600GB and then my speeds fall down quite a bit (though still faster than my home broadband).

I see that Three offer 5G home broadband, and am considering cancelling my Sky broadband package and moving over to this. My question is, will this be as fast as my phone broadband? And do Three have any 'unofficial' data caps, like EE, so my speeds get cut down when I go over their unofficial limit? I think Three advertise the speeds as 150Mbps on their website, but I was hoping it would be much faster, considering the super fast speeds I get on my 5G phone with EE, and my very short distance from the 5G mast.

Should I expect this to be much faster and more efficient if I do make the change? Or are there other concerns I may need to consider first?

Thank you for your help.
 
Try it. You get a cooling off period to cancel and return it if you don't find it up to scratch.

Three's 150Mb claim is just a random number they claim as an average. I know some people who get well in excess of gigabit speeds with it, while I will get ridiculously slow speeds out of it if I try to use it where I live at the moment. There's no real telling.

If you or a friend/family member/neighbour have access to a Three SIM in a 5G phone and do a speed test in your house it will give you a rough idea of what you can expect out of it.

You do need to be aware though that since you mention gaming, you may download the games very fast, but the responsiveness and latency may not be so fast. With mobile broadband you'll usually not get the same stability and low latency that you'll be used to now with a fixed line connection. It may well be perfectly usable still, but not quite as good.

And no. With Three and Vodafone unlimited means unlimited. It's EE and O2 who put caps on their unlimited plans.

Just before you do sign up, take a quick look at the BIDB Website to get an idea of if there's anyone planning to launch FTTP where you live. As well as an approximate idea of 5G coverage from each network at your address too.
 
use the bidb site to give you a brief idea if you can get three 5g and just order a payasugo sim and then do a few speed tests ..

You will have 100mbytes to 200mbytes to do some brief testing.

Also look at cell mapper as that will give some idea to where three masts are in relation to yourself
 
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