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4G home data.
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07/08/2017 19:00
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MeanRedSpider
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The home I'm moving to is currently 2 miles from Malmesbury- a town where Mr Dyson plans to create 3500 jobs before 2020 - and in a village. So I'm not exactly in the middle of nowhere. Anyhow, the best broadband I can hope for is about 4Mbps IF I pay for fibre or 3Mbps if I don't. A couple of the suppliers have been honest enough to say that fibre in such circumstances is a waste of money. EE got me thinking though. She said that I had a great 4G signal where I was. The thing that put me off was the cost and the data limit - £30 for 30Gb.
Anyhow, today on HUKD I noticed that EE are doing an offer of that package half price on a sim-only deal. So I signed up for one.
Questions: 1. What, if any, are the downsides of this? 2. Any recommendations for 4G routers? I'm thinking a mains router for best signal within the house? Some I've seen display data used, speed and time period - seems useful. 3. I've signed up for ADSL broadband too (3Mbps unlimited) for basically the cost of the phone line rental (£18/m). I'm thinking that I can then use this for all the downloading stuff where speed doesn't matter (back-ups, audiobooks, email etc) and reserve my 30Gb allowance for speed-sensitive stuff (FaceTime, kids gaming etc). Does this sound sensible? I'm half wondering if I should have signed up for two SIMs and dumped the ADSL.
Any other thoughts? How BT are going to meet their commitment of 99% of people on 10Mbps minimum by 2020, I've no idea.
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Re: 4G home data.
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07/08/2017 20:13
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Rich, I did much the same when we moved in here - no BT Broadband for a month. I took the Vodafone 50gb for £25 offer and bought a TP-Link Archer 4G router for about £100 in Maplins. It all worked very well (apart from when stepsons streamed videos/music). Now we have traditional Broadband and I've set up the Archer in our unit. As long as you aren't over-ambitious with your use, it should be fine.
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Re: 4G home data.
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09/08/2017 07:44
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There are many other products that do this, we have been using these in the enterprise for quite some time.
Looks for SD WAN, WAN Aggregation or WAN Bonding
I will have a look later to see if there are any other cut down consumer versions
Last edited by MarioCirillo; 09/08/2017 07:45.
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Re: 4G home data.
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09/08/2017 08:43
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This seems to have at least some of that functionality https://www.broadbandbuyer.com/products/27722-d-link-dwr-953-xpol/Anybody any recommendations as to whether an external aerial is normally worthwhile? Understand that it will depend upon the particular circumstances (building, location of router, 4G signal etc). Trouble is, until I have a router set up, I don't know if it'll be good enough. I'm assuming that, in most circumstances, it's not required but then I also want to squeeze every last drop of speed out of it I can.
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Re: 4G home data.
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09/08/2017 12:21
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MarioCirillo
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That is spot on for what you need. The external antenna is worth getting.
Its quite nice as it lets you load balance between the two networks and also enables you to do QOS (Quality of Service) - QOS Lets you prioritise certain traffic over others e.g. VOIP over Streaming as an example
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