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adslmax

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EE 1p Mobile
« on: June 23, 2024, 08:11:17 PM »

I was surprised how good EE 5G on my mobile phone from my 1p mobile (just one off quick test of 5g)

But I wish 1p mobile do have unlimited data, if they do, then I would buy sim to put on 5G router for household broadband.  ;D
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Re: EE 1p Mobile
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2024, 09:32:20 PM »

Its a good thing they don't, I just can't imagine you handling mobile broadband, its far too variable.

When I trialed Three 5G as my primary connection for a couple of months, it drove me insane.  One day it would be Gigabit, another day it would drop to 400Mbit with three-digit latency and pages failing to load.  Its sufficient as a backup and even additional to speed up my Steam downloads, but as a primary connection, no thanks.  Not least that the upload can be anything from 2Mbit to 100Mbit and I was recently trying to fix one of my VPS which meant uploading some GBs of data.

This is from a tower that is 82M away from my 5G router.

My FTTP connection is extremely consistent however.
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Re: EE 1p Mobile
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2024, 10:15:48 PM »

I suppose so. FTTP are better option then.
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Re: EE 1p Mobile
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2024, 11:06:44 AM »

I would consider using 4g/5g over ADSL or a low syncing VDSL, but otherwise I think fixed line is still the better choice.

Even EE is having visible problems now, the mast near me slows down a lot during peak and at one point the upload was behaving like it was being severely throttled, so slow the upload test on speedtest would time out.  However now that upload behaviour has stopped, with browsing etc. it feels normal again during peak, just it drops to about 1/5 speed (circa 30mbit instead of 150), the upload is now much faster than download during peak hours after they unthrottled it.
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Re: EE 1p Mobile
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2024, 08:53:02 PM »

I would consider using 4g/5g over ADSL or a low syncing VDSL, but otherwise I think fixed line is still the better choice.

Based on my experience, I'd still want ADSL as a backup as when mobile goes wrong it tends to go very wrong.  Its quite bizarre that a connection otherwise benchmarking fast can still have issues loading pages.
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Re: EE 1p Mobile
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2024, 07:18:53 PM »

Got sim card from 1p mobile for mobile broadband. Signal 5G are excellent -74 RSRP (dBm) with 500GB data!

Speed always between 121 and 131 Download and 92 and 97 Upload all day indoor

https://www.speedtest.net/result/d/74bc6d32-1f45-4f59-b830-ec6186d44b89

I did test it with outside of windows this afternoon (need 5G aerial on the wall outside with line of sight from local 5G mast) https://www.speedtest.net/result/a/10248655264


« Last Edit: July 18, 2024, 07:24:55 PM by adslmax »
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Re: EE 1p Mobile
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2024, 10:26:47 AM »

Got sim card from 1p mobile for mobile broadband. Signal 5G are excellent -74 RSRP (dBm) with 500GB data!

Speed always between 121 and 131 Download and 92 and 97 Upload all day indoor
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But why would you be using that indoors when you've got an excellent G.Fast service?
I also don't understand why anyone needs 500GB mobile data in a month. If I'm out of the house the most I'll be doing is perhaps using maps if I'm walking or looking at a location's website if we are planning to visit, neither of which use much data at all. Maybe it's my age but when I'm out of the house I like to be looking at what's around me and not at my mobile phone.
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Re: EE 1p Mobile
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2024, 10:43:46 AM »

Cos I am using it for few months test and will be using it for home mobile broadband everydays use when my gfast contract has finished.  So I can use 1p mobile broadband until FTTP come next June / July 2025. I don't want to keep paying gfast for many more months when the contract has expired. The gfast line will going to be cease for the final last time. Mobile broadband is just a temporary until FTTP come next. Hope that understands.
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Re: EE 1p Mobile
« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2024, 01:39:28 PM »

Brand new 5G monopole went live switched on yesterday at Hermitage Way TF7 5SZ for EE but Three is inactive. EE get over 600Mbps down and over 100Mbps up all day today in my pc room by the windows using Three 5G Hub with 1p mobile sim with excellent -79 to -82 signal. EE coverage is not updated yet nor Cellmapper.

« Last Edit: August 03, 2024, 01:43:42 PM by adslmax »
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Re: EE 1p Mobile
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2024, 08:26:24 PM »

What do you do that need 600 meg and wouldn't work with say 40 meg?
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Re: EE 1p Mobile
« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2024, 08:36:38 PM »

What do you do that need 600 meg and wouldn't work with say 40 meg?

Pretty much everything... Have you done any mobile phone or tablet OS updates recently? They are all multi-GB, so you can wait 20 mins on 40Mbit or 2 or 3 mins on blazing fast.
The days of waiting patiently for stuff to download, or waiting to buffer and watch - are over.  ;)

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Re: EE 1p Mobile
« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2024, 08:41:04 PM »

Almost the same speed for down and up when the EE mast go to sleep mode 😴
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