salexc
Member
Hi folks,
Apologies if this is in the wrong place, I'm sure the mods will shift if so.
I'm on 3's 24-month 5G broadband deal, they sent me a MC801A in July. No complaints at all at first, but over time the latency on the connection degraded to the point where I was only getting 2000-3000ms pings to various sites. I have a 5G Samsung mobile on iDMobile and could get 50-70ms ping when tethering and connected to the same mast, so I phoned up 3's technical support and told them they needed to send me a new router. After some to-ing and fro-ing they did, and today I took delivery of the NR5103.
So, this thing is annoying me already...hopefully if anyone can answer some questions I have then it won't be going back tomorrow!
Apologies if this is in the wrong place, I'm sure the mods will shift if so.
I'm on 3's 24-month 5G broadband deal, they sent me a MC801A in July. No complaints at all at first, but over time the latency on the connection degraded to the point where I was only getting 2000-3000ms pings to various sites. I have a 5G Samsung mobile on iDMobile and could get 50-70ms ping when tethering and connected to the same mast, so I phoned up 3's technical support and told them they needed to send me a new router. After some to-ing and fro-ing they did, and today I took delivery of the NR5103.
So, this thing is annoying me already...hopefully if anyone can answer some questions I have then it won't be going back tomorrow!
- The Zyxel seems to have a much poorer internal antenna than the ZTE - it's barely maintaining a 5G connection to my tower, when the ZTE had no problem locking on and always gave me around -105dBm. Is this others' experience? It seems to fall back on to 4G far too quickly, which isn't what I'm paying my money for. My postcode is B92 7EE..
- How do I put the Zyxel in to bridge mode? It clearly supports such a use, but I can't find anything in the (bloody awful) admin pages to switch it out of router mode. I've enabled the WAN port under Broadband -> Ethernet WAN. On the ZTE this was a very simple procedure. I run my home network through a Linksys Velop mesh so this is a bit of a problem if it can't be enabled.























