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Three 5G Home Broadband New Download Limit 120mbps

Only in Britain can they get away with it by calling "Limited" as "Unlimited" and vice versa.

And the regulators are mute spectators, as always, with no teeth or inclination to interven and take serious action.

ASA only ever gives a slap on the wrist.

All by design.
 
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Just an update from the above post where I noticed the 120mbps limit.

I contacted them and asked them to reverse the change from a few months ago to keep the public IPv4 address, they've moved it back to the new 'standard' IPv6 with unfortunately no dynamic IPv4.

Whilst that's a downside, the IPv6-first network doesn't have the same throttling or limits and my speeds are averaging around 500mbps right now.

Worth knowing about as it seems we have a choice - very high speeds OR a publicly routable IPv4 address.
 
Can I check I've got this straight, please?
  • iD and SMARTY don't let you have a publicly routable IPv4 address and don't throttle. (I certainly seem able to get >120Mbit/s on my SMARTY SIM right now.)
  • If your connection is Three-branded (direct purchase from Three or one of the Scancom pre-pay SIMs) you get a choice (by selecting the APN) - a publicly routable IPv4 address with a 120Mbit/s cap *or* unlimited speeds with no publicly routable address?
  • iD, SMARTY and Three-bought-direct mean "unlimited" when they say "unlimited", but Scancom's "unlimited" SIM has a hard cap of 1000GB.
  • The Scancom 500GB/month SIM has same APN-based speed-vs-publicly routable choice as the "unlimited" one. (Just a guess, am I right?)
 
It appears as though if you are set up with the new IPv6 data centre and use the 3internet APN but set as IPv4 only you get the public IP AND the UNthrottled speeds.
 
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