Three 5G Home broadband + £80 Premium Quidco / Topcashback + 3 months free then £20pm /24m - £420 ( £16.20pm effect) @ Quidco / Three

Been using this for a month now, can’t fault it. I have a lot of tech (WiFi cameras , doorbell, alarm, kids with consoles and tablets ect) and I’ve had zero problems. No dropouts unlike virgin media used to do 

Don't bother. I tried it - can consistently get 250-300 MBps on my phone (also on Three). When connected to the router I mostly got below 40, sometimes down to 10. I had the router facing the mast, which I could see out my window 300-400m away (across an empty park). Don't understand why it's so slow. Tech team didn't fix it, and failed to call me back.

Recently got the 30 day plan to supplement my 50mbps BT connection until FTTP is finally opened up to my area. I have a somewhat advanced network setup - including load balancing / failover of connections between the BT and this router.

Very impressed with the speeds. I have put the 3 5G router in the loft facing the 5G tower (around 500m away) with a CAT6 cable back to my existing Mikrotik router.
Yes the speed do vary - but never seen it drop below 200mbps at any point.


Here's a taster of my Internet / Network setup:

We tried this but found it very slow.
Also be careful if you take it out, it says you can return to store but they refused to do it and trying to get it cancelled took some time due to very poor customer services, we had to call a few times and keep chasing them up

Unless you know for sure that you have VERY strong Three 5g signal within your home I wouldn't bother with this. I was with Three for years and as technology improved Three's service got worse, moved to EE and works a treat when needed (I only use it as a backup broadband solution)

Been using it for the past week and quite impressed. I don't get the same speed as some of you but 300 ish is still decent for the price IMO and it's been rock solid.

I went ahead and put the 30 day notice in to Vodafone this morning and will stick with 3 5g for now. I was out of contract with them and paying £35 for just 48mbps so this saves me a few quid and also not get locked into a new contract waiting for full fibre to reach my place.

Still enjoying the £15 a month no contract glitch + Quidco tracked the £15 cashback and £50 cashback bonus from last time:
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I moved from fibre BB to this 5G from Three. The max speed I can get from fibre was 55mb. This Three gives me between 100-150mb. It is been reliable and I am on a 1 month contract to test before committing for longer. Ping is sometimes slow though. Not always. It doesn't not affect me much but might be a problem for some.

We are in a 5G area according to Three. I have managed to get 5G only once, despite taking an extension cable outside and putting the router in high points in the surrounding area.

EE's coverage checker by comparison is a LOT better...with full 5G available as stated it would be (inside and outside). What's interesting is that this router when on 4G+ is significantly slower than an iPhone 13 on the same 4G+ network.

Basically, we found this hub to be totally unusable, which is a great shame given that it's very cost effective. If it works for you, then great

I'm paying 50 quid a month for this and it's going up to 57 this month I really regret it - but had no choice. I have a year and a bit still left to go.

I have this, and once set up it's actually rather good.
Spent an hour or so slowly moving it around in a spare room at different angles and looking at the fluctuations in the signal to find the best spot. When it's really pissing it down with rain it does slow down a bit but this is infrequent.
I game online (COD etc), ping is fine for me at around 30ms (i'm an old gamer though from Doom/Quake days and 56k modems so compensation is something that can't be taught!), down/up speed wise I get about 400mb/30, the mast is about a mile away from the house, maybe a little more.

I was having problems of it completely dropping out for about 10 minutes about 2-3 times a day a few months ago but this seems to have gone since i've positioned it better, I thought it was firmware related but it's not been updated since then so it coulnd't have been.

I'm happy with a rolling contract for £24 so if anything comes in the meantime I can switch. Just had CityFibre dig up the streets a few weeks ago so keeping an eye on that.

Wouldn't touch three with a barge pole

Mine worked very well when I had it, slight rubber banding when playing rocket League but no problems for non gaming tasks.

Any good for teams calls? Currently have Vodafone and the calls constantly drop out…

I used a 3 £16 Unlimited data sim for a year without a problem.Then at renewal I couldn't get a decent deal so got a Smarty SIM for the same price but with £25 cashback and 30 day rolling contract. I can sell my 3 router now for about £150 and get this. Bargain!

The router seems like it's a airfyer

2nd hand unlocked £200 works well

Am in need of something myself as my current virgin deal is over I cancelled was going to jump on as new customer but the 46 a month deal is over. Now I need something new.but it doesn't look like this will be any good I'll have to hold out hope some new deals come soon (edited)

I have the older version of this router and have a year or so left on my contract. I can't fault it at all. I get 500+ down and 350+ up on 90% of the speed tests I run. About once every 3 months I lose 5G signal for anywhere between 2-48 hours but the 4g speeds are 150+ down and 50+ up so doesn't really affect me. In order to get a good signal I have to put the router on the window sill on the front side of my house. Anywhere else and the speeds aren't as good but still acceptable. Only downside of having it at the front of the house is poor signal in the back garden. But it covers the entire house and even reaches to my garage. Definitely depends on the quality of the device you're using. All my devices that are less than 5 years old connect to it easily from anywhere in the house. My old computer and laptop struggle to connect so I have to tether to the router using my phone as a daisy chain. My Brother lives a couple of miles away and he has one. His speeds are even better than mine. My parents also live a couple of miles away and they have one too. Theirs is the worst speed out of all of us but still over 300 down and 100 up which is plenty for them. Officially 5G isn't supported in my area but mine worked from day one. Same for my brother. My parents had to wait 2-3 months before they started getting 5G but the 4G speeds were plenty fast enough in the interim. Personally I can't recommend them enough. I travel a lot for work and I've never had any issues with signals on Three. I switched to EE recently as I get a 50% discount with them and I regret it. I never ever had signal issues inside petrol stations or shops or when I was out in the sticks with Three but with EE I'm constantly having to step outside or go near a window to get a signal so I can load my loyalty card app in the supermarket or at the petrol station.

If I had 5g at home I'd be all over this.

My sister has it and she is regularly on 400mbs+ and hasn't had a single issue in the 6 months she's had it so far.

I've had this for about 6 months. Initially came up as having 5g in my area when I ordered but it doesn't really, if you go on their site now it says 4g only in my area.
Gives a fairly consistent 100mb download speed on 4g which is faster than I'll ever need and way better than I can get on a wired connection.
Quidco cashback recently came through for me too.
Main issue is the connection seems to drop out once or twice a day but comes back as soon as you reset the router