Get Three 5G Home Broadband Unlimited - Free For 3 Months, Then £20 Per Month (24m) - £420 @ Three

Stick the sim in a phone
text "PAC DDMMYY" to 65075
The DDMMYY is you dob
You will see them begging you .

I set my to reboot every night (option available in the settings) and found it’s 99% stable for a family of 7 with multiple gaming and TV streaming. Putting it in a high window and disguising it, not easy!



This is covered by a Roman blind and the cables run into the loft.



I’ve since painted the cables. (edited)

My son signed up for this deal (half price 6 month) back in October - £70 Topcashback paid in December - he'd only paid £20 at that time.

Thanks, I've had three 5g near my house for like 10 months now but still can't order one of these. I even contacted support but they refuse to sell you one of you're not on the system

Yeah but you keep the router with three u don't keep it

I believe you can - it's called ip passthrough on the settings. Lots of info in this thread - ispreview.co.uk/tal…-14

ZyXEL (Left) is better for the internal WiFi network. ZTE (Right) is better for 5G network and giving you faster speeds or holding onto a signal if you're on the edge of a coverage area.

I'd recommend either trying it heavily in the cooling off period of the 24mth option or looking at the cheapest phone SIM & a router off CEX - think mine was about £105, but having a mind blank!

£24 is too much IMHO - my SIM, a HUKD masterpiece, is £10/mth, but even it gets little use after I picked up a bargain prepaid EE SIM.

I assume you mean 500-700Mbps (not anywhere from 5 to 700)?

uk.webuy.com/pro…a3b
for Three (Inc. Smarty/iD if you want to use one of the £15 Unlimited SIMs but accept that you'll be subject to CGNAT)
or
uk.webuy.com/pro…1ab
for unlocked

2 Year warranty.

That's currently the cheapest option for a 5G Router that's in stock at this very moment. I actually own this very model myself. Works fine.

I think it depends on your area.

My 3 unlimited gets 250Mbps, so this would be a decent option for me.

You fool!
It's an air purifier - not a dehumidifier!

Yes. It’s got a bigger antenna, a faster modem, and a much better performing router for transmitting WiFi around the house and handling internet networking traffic too.

You should get speeds a little better than with your phone.

Was - it will be exactly the same for contracts taken now (Three abandoned the fixed increase in favour of the CPI + 3.9%).

From what I read, the hefty charges are only a late return fee - you still don't own the router!

Whats the latency like?

Why not take advantage of the lower price? You can supposedly cancel in the first 30 days (likely to have the same issues cancelling on either, so may as well spend less to be tortured)!

Do the same test at 6pm Paul. You are lucky to have 5g access though, if you're on Three's 4g out of town the capacity sucks in the evening. I've had consistant 200Mbps at 2am on 4g and less than 1Mbps at 6pm connected to the same mast. (edited)

Hiya , What sim are u using with it ? Work fine ?

As said.. steaming, downloading, surfing the web etc are all fine if the 4g/5g speeds are there.. ping will likely be 30/40 at best which is fine for for most things.

I have gamed on it with fpshooters and it’s been…..ok….. I’d certainly take fibre if that was a dealbreaker for me.

how many holes do you think bt are gonna drill? They should only be running a fibre cable in and through 1 wall, ground floor or 1st floor if requested..

I’ve said close to 10 times in here, my set up didn’t really work, I needed an aerial, an aerial which I’ve since replaced with another to receive a solid 30mbps down and 40mbps up..

I have drilled through my walls to install said aerial and have a pole outside with 2 sail looking antenna on.

I think BT will be your best option personally, unless getting fibre to your house is an issue.

You might get a great signal with Three broadband off the bad and If so, great.. however, if you don’t you’ll fall down a rabbit hole of..

new router options
aerials
masts
drilling holes
running cable
cell locking
band locking
speed testing.

or go with BT

With a few regional exceptions, yes. Most people would get a router and a regular Three 5G SIM that works on the national mobile network and will connect anywhere that you can get Three signal.

The most notable exception would be if you sign up in the Swindon area. They have their own special network rather than the Three mobile network. You have to be in range of that specific network and will connect by a small antenna that's installed on the side of your house. So no portability there.

Depends what’s an average household. Easy to use up that amount and more with downloading streaming and gaming from one active person alone.

Ditto and actually would say the same with EE. Vodafone seems to be consistent.

Seems the way round this is to use a false postcode!

People have been using CF24 4AN to progress. Then once at the pick your package screen, copy and paste the url in to a new browser window. Apparently it mutters something about no postcode provided but then it works. Haven't tried this personally so be interesting if anyone has successfully used this method.

Not sure if this will break the 60 cashback from TCB, but worth a try (edited)

If you're a competitive gamer for things like fast paced or first person shooters and the like - No.
5G is often useable for this, but by the nature of mobile broadband ping/latency is very variable and is no replacement for a fixed fiber line.

If it was just for basic internet use, browing the web, streaming videos, Skype, downloading games etc. then I would say yes. It's often great speed and reliability for the price if you have good 5G coverage where you live. But since the first question you asked was gaming, I would be inclined to say stick with Vodafone - But maybe consider a new router as that accounts for about half of the complaints about Vodafone's broadband.

Hold up..you can turn this router into modem only mode? I guess this is only good on improving signal throughout your home?

The ZyXEL on the right would be the best one to get as long as the 5G Signal is strong where you live.

If you're in a weak signal area right on the edge of coverage the ZTE On the left is better in that sense, but is older with less features overall.

Have you tried your phone Sim in the router? See if that works? If it does maybe they haven't activated the SIM they sent you. You could also try changing the APN settings on the router page itself see if that solves it. Google three APN settings and it will tell you what you need to put in

Depends which provider you go with and what their offers are at the time. There's plenty of providers that offer deals that include free installation/connection.

If you pick one that doesn't, or doesn't have an offer on at the time then yes you will be liable to pay the fee to connect the new line.

It may well be that you decide to continue with this in 2 years time anyways. So it's not worth worrying about paying this fee so far ahead of time.

Also the £20 broadband is pretty much ongoing. Just the offer around is is subject to change at any time. So you might get 3 months free. Or you might get 6 month half price. Or might just get the basic £20 per month. My advice would be to hang on to your fixed line for a bit longer though. Let it roll out of contract and pay a couple weeks extra with them at full price. Then you can sign up to Three on the first day of April and avoid the price increase for this year.

Go through quidco if you have it as it's 4% cashback

I highly recommend it. I used to have FTTP on a 150Mb/s package. The price went up to over £40 as I was at the end of the contract.

So after several speed checks over a few months on 3 mobile data, the speeds only got faster. I can get over 1Gbs on mobile data, and the fasted I've gotten with the 3 5g home bb I get between 350-750Mb/s

My advice is that if you're close to the end of your current contract, then order this a month or so prior to it ending and order the 5g home bb & try it out as you have a 30 day trial (i think) withthe home BB. That's how I done it. I opted for the 1 month rolling contract. Also, in case things got worse down the line, which so far hasn't happened. (edited)