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Have they changed it?, used to be Speed Capped to well below EE's 4G Speeds.

last time I checked 1p Mobile wasn't showing any 5G Coverage on there Maps
The coverage map on 1pMobiles website is provided by EE and doesn't yet show any 5G coverage, but I live on South Coast between Brighton and Worthing and can confirm that the 5G coverage all around this area on 1pMobile is exactly the same as my partners 5G coverage on EE. We tested and compared when 1p turned on 5G, but unfortunately didn't save a screenshot of speed tests.
 
Testing the sims this morning.

My 1p EE is producing a figure of 100 down against 400 on Vodaphone. I'd say it is speed capped.

My £1 Licamobile for 6gb data will not even let me in until I spend some more money with them.

The Vodafone is brilliant and matches my Three figures.
 
Testing the sims this morning.

My 1p EE is producing a figure of 100 down against 400 on Vodaphone. I'd say it is speed capped.

My £1 Licamobile for 6gb data will not even let me in until I spend some more money with them.

The Vodafone is brilliant and matches my Three figures.
1p wasn't capped for me while I had an EE and BT SIM side by side.

50GB for £15 isn't too bad.

You reference "for what you need it for" a lot. What do you need it for?

A days video calling, screen sharing and call taking (7 hours) for work used less than 1gb data for me not too long ago.

What is it you need it for?
 
"What is it you need it for?"

A backup for when and if my Three feed fails.
Do you know how much traffic you shift per day? What about critical traffic? Ie to do your work, not "optional" stuff like streaming. It'd be useful to know this.
 
Critical Lucian?

Nothing or everything to be honest. I'm a retired married man filling the time with hobbies. Many of them new such as this quest for the best broadband.

My wife is the least technical lady I have ever met. She was years behind her friends in acquiring an email address and refuses to move from her clamshell phone that could come out of a sixties crime movie.

However having said that both of us expect the fruits of broadband to be there 24/7 and I know how (unjustifiably probably) frustrated we'd be if they were not. Our apartment block really should have full fibre. I have come to the end of a copper BT Business feed. I am paying silly money as I don't want to take out another 24 month contract in case I'm offered fibre. Hence the move to cell fed broadband with a once used Huawei.

I have a Samsung A22 that, tethered with the right sim card, would actually keep us supplied with broadband if the Huawei Smart feed died. So I have back up machinery. This thread is my journey to find the best card and as I wake this morning the winner goes to Smarty as I can leave it in the A22 and not pay a penny until the moment it is needed - and even 4g is plenty fast enough.
 
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Maybe its changed, they used to be Speed Capped on the EE Network, and there was some discussions about 5G not being live yet.

End of the day, try it, and see what you get, but Im not sure how your going to compare the Speeds on EE without also using a EE Sim?
Yes it been changed. By default all sim by 1p mobile are now 5G (if support by 5G mobile phone with 5G mast enabled in some areas, otherwise it will be 4G/3G)
 
Testing the sims this morning.

My 1p EE is producing a figure of 100 down against 400 on Vodaphone. I'd say it is speed capped.

My £1 Licamobile for 6gb data will not even let me in until I spend some more money with them.

The Vodafone is brilliant and matches my Three figures.
1p EE isn't speed capped as I was on the bus to town and got download speed of 565Mbps down and 110Mbps up on my 5G mobile with 1p ee (50GB @ £15 a month)
 
Thanks Bulldog but now I am confused by the two messages.

Am I to understand it is mast dependent?

It certainly give me rubbish speed. Do you know of a non contract way of testing 'proper' EE?

T
 
Thanks Bulldog but now I am confused by the two messages.

Am I to understand it is mast dependent?

It certainly give me rubbish speed. Do you know of a non contract way of testing 'proper' EE?

T
Absolutely, it is mast or area dependent. Not all masts are built the same, they have different loads, some have more bands, some less etc. Mobile broadband is highly variable, all sorts of parameters influence performance.
 
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Thanks Bulldog but now I am confused by the two messages.

Am I to understand it is mast dependent?

It certainly give me rubbish speed. Do you know of a non contract way of testing 'proper' EE?

T
It depend on mast. Where I live at home I only get download speed of 120 and upload speed of 45 on 4G+ but nearby 5G mast I get 565 down and 110 up. On 1p EE sim.
 
Unfortunately, its more complex than that with EE... not all the RAN vendors (cough ~Ericsson~ cough) enforce AMBR (yet), so if you're lucky enough to connect to a mast from such a vendor then you aren't likely to be restricted (yet).
 
Bulldog.

Slow brain here but it has sunk in. You have the same sim as me, 1p, and you have experience failure and success. As Gavin says it is often the mast that defines it.

I'll leave the sim in my phone a bit longer but as I can get genuine 5g speed from my Voxi sim I'll regard that as my fall back when my Three/Smarty fails.

GiifGaff with its o2 worked. But again at 4g speeds.

Tony
 
You should give these guys a go, they use EE too:

All these EE mvnos aren't very competitive, looking at their prices.

Also they don't seem terribly informed, see screenshot.

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