Slow internet connection/Download speeds with Huawei B535

[Wobby]

My B535 router on Three is exactly the same. I've got a B311 also which has worked flawlessly for over a year with fairly consistent download speeds of around 30 to 40. I recently acquired a B535 router and initial start up I get consistent speeds of around 60 to 70. However this slows after a couple of hours to around 15. Restart the B535 and speeds go up again. Also the 2.4ghz capability is way below that of the B511. With the B511 I can maintain connection and normal speeds in the back garden but not so with the B535. No signal at all in the back garden but then when I do get a weak signal the speeds are down to around 2 to 4. This is not the case with the B311 that seems to be able to deliver consistent speeds even with a weak signal. Speeds are better on 5ghz but range very limited. Despite better speeds on 5ghz it still slows right down after a few hours. Restart it and it's back to normal. I've tried everything I know of. I even have the huactrl app to force bands on the router but slowing down occurs regardless of band whether it be band 1, 3 or 20 or all of them aggregated. If anyone else has experienced similar problems with the B535 I'd like to hear from you or is it just my router? Even better still I'd be delighted to hear from anyone who has found a solution. The signal is a good 5 bar signal from Three btw.

I too have a B353 router it often slows right down. Just did a speed test download speed was 5mbps then did a speed test on my iPhone with the same companies sim, both “three” and 60mbps. It must be down to either the router or three deliberately
slowing my router.

 

[Bubblesthefish6]

I too have a B353 router it often slows right down. Just did a speed test download speed was 5mbps then did a speed test on my iPhone with the same companies sim, both “three” and 60mbps. It must be down to either the router or three deliberately
slowing my router.

I did notice that when I was with three broadband on mine only got about 20 meg but when I put my mobile SIM in I get about 140 (same as a speedtest on my phone, both using three)

 

[eccles]

B525s routers will sometimes switch bands when one appears stronger than another even if the weaker one is faster. Some firmwares allow band locking, otherwise you could try LTE Inspecteur or LTEH Monitor both of which can allow you to lock to a particular band.

 

[Elixier23]

No provider would be advertising speeds that high - I think what you were seeing were the router specifications not the estimated 4G speeds.

The problem with Three is they offer the best pricing by a mile on unlimited home internet packages and so the uptake is huge. Couple that with the most data hungry customers on their unlimited plans compared to other providers and their network really takes a bashing. Three have got great network tech but it's a cat and mouse game with capacity.

If Three's not working for you, can you try perhaps Vodafone? They've got a very stable 4G network that doesn't take quite the bashing. If you've got good signal, it tends to stay alright. I'd stay away from EE for the time being just because they've set up IPv6 on their network in a non-standard way which can cause some things to break.

The main point from all of this is not to expect a great deal of stability from a 4G network and expect that things like drastic speed changes even during the same day are going to be common.

Just to add - I've got two of these installed at parents/grandparents houses and it's very much the same. Speed fluctuates but the most they do is browse the internet and occasionally stream from the likes of Netflix which tends to handle the speed changes fairly well without them noticing that's going on. Gaming on the other hand is very sensitive to sudden speed/latency changes.

I use EE mobile broadband as my main connection and frequently get over 400mb on 4G LTE. What it does vary a bit I wouldn't recommend any other network for mobile broadband to be honest with you especially not 3. Also it's well-known that 3 don't investing their network properly nothing to do with their cell sites everything to do with wanting to shell out money for the back haul. They are extremely slow in most places because they don't want to investing them at work and they don't don't want to upgrade their lines they want to get as many customers as they can paying as much money as they can and hope that nobody complained once they've taken out their contract and even when they do complain they don't particularly care. 3 and O2 have the slowest networks so if you're going to do a mobile broadband job then you're going to go with a Vodafone with average speed or EE. I haven't seen IPv6 break anything in the long time and remember the other networks are using it to including 3

 

[bulldog]

EE all the way, fastest speed! o2/3 are rubbish slow speed and vodafone is not too bad but still capped speed.

 

[TTJJ]

vodafone is not too bad but still capped speed

I don't think Vodafone cap the speeds. You get the best available on plans that support it.

 

[Asperio]

Just regiestered to tell you that I have exactly the same issue, I have a Huawei B535 with a great signal, almost 200mbps 4g LTE, if I don't reboot everyday I can go down to 15/25 mbps. To fix this, I put a small script on my pizero to restart every morning the huawei using the huawei-lte-api. You can find on github.
No problem since I did this.