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Three 5G Home Broadband - 6 Months half price - £11pm then £22pm from month 7 (£16.33pm Effective) 24m contract ( + £70 Quidco OR TCB)
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5G Home Broadband gives you faster speeds for heavier streaming. It also means you get less lag for your gaming and increased capacity for multiple users. Our 5G hub is perfect for busy homes with lots of screen time going on.
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5G Home Broadband
Say hello to super-fast speeds with our 5G hub. It’s our best broadband for working from home.
Average download speeds of 150Mbps [1]
Truly unlimited data
No landline. No engineer
Plug and play setup
Near-instant downloads
4K streaming
1 and 24-month contracts
Available with eero
Technical information [2]
5G Home Broadband gives you faster speeds for heavier streaming. It also means you get less lag for your gaming and increased capacity for multiple users. Our 5G hub is perfect for busy homes with lots of screen time going on.
Our 5G * is super-fast! As our 5G service is transmitted over the air, the speeds you will receive can vary due to a number of factors such as your location, the number of users in your area, the position of your router in your home and local geography. With a 30-day money back guarantee you can see how fast our service is, worry-free.
Can I get Unlimited data on a Home Broadband deal?
Yes - as much data as you’ll ever need with a 4G hub or 5G hub. And you don’t need a landline or fibre optic cable to get connected, because our wireless broadband uses our network signal. We’ve got loads of unlimited data Home Broadband deals, for Pay Monthly and Pay As You Go plans.
Is there a Home Broadband set-up fee?
Our Broadband only deals come with no upfront costs if you choose a 4G or 5G home hub, or Pay Monthly data SIM only deal. If you choose Broadband on Pay As You Go, you’ll need to pay an upfront fee.
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Don't do it!! (edited)
Like all of these 5G broadband offers it's very much dependant on your location and if you're fortunate enough to be in an area with good reception. My 24m contract is up soon (Aug/Sep I think) and I will be cancelling the Three sim and will probably have to return the router (conflicting reports on whether they ask for it back) but I'm assuming they will ask for it back.. so I've already bought a replacement 5G router as I will be continuing to have 5G broadband and sticking in an iD mobile unlimited sim in.
The 5g router that I bought is the updated version of the one in this post (the Zyxel NR5103Ev2) and managed to get it for £82 + P&P on ebay. The seller I bought mine from currently has 5 routers listed - all brand new - on auction listings starting at £74.99 if anyone is thinking of buying a router outright and sticking in a Smarty / Three business sim or any other sim as they're not locked to one network.
In the real world, it's all about hosting. If you have a webserver, NAS that you want to access from outside home, some kind of home assistant or CCTV system that you want to remotely manage etc. Or for online gaming if you host a session and want others to connect to you. These are the kinds of problems that CGNAT Causes.
Additionally, you will also see a little higher latency due to the processing of your data traffic being routed to the ISP and then sent on to you since that IP Address is being shared among many other users.
For the most part, people can live with CGNAT and not even know what it is. But I personally always try to avoid it as every now and then I'll find some weird quirk of the setup that makes life harder.
CMLink has full access to EE Signal and has 30 day rolling contracts for £24 a month for the first 3 months then £30 a month after that. That's about the best you'll get.
Otherwise you can sign up for EE 5G Home broadband direct from them and get a router included (Remember if you cancel with Three you have to return their router back to them shortly after you leave) - And special broadband plans that come with a router have a larger fair use policy of 1TB. But you're looking at £50 a month plus £100 upfront on a 18 month contract for that one.
- New customers can't access a good price 3 or giffgaff data only SIM anymore?
- Smarty and ID mobile combined with an unlocked 5G router are alternative options to this deal?
Giffgaff have terms that aren’t favourable to being used in routers so I’d avoid them anyways.
Three do occasionally do good offers direct. Just keep an eye out on comparison sites rather that their own main site. Also consider business plans as they often do business data SIMs stupidly cheap for as little as £5+VAT.
These routers are actually very capable and powerful devices. Unless you're using your own router for the sake of a mesh network, I would personally not bother and stick with their hub as-is.
Otherwise though if you’re on an unlimited plan on Three or Smarty it’s basically unlimited. And speeds will be comparable between both of the SIMs too.
As for if it will be fine for working from home, the other important question is if you get a good signal on the Three network where you live and if Three’s network is fast enough there too - They can be very congested in some places.
If you don't want the hassle of a contract just buy a router off ebay and get a Smarty unlimited sim.. (edited)
A PAYG SIM in a phone vs contract broadband SIM in a router can deliver very different results on speed tests.
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left virgin for this and went back cap in hand, never looked back and never will (edited)
Trying to cancel during the cancellation period was a pain.
The new router was great, until a few months ago, now speeds are absolutely garage, latency has tripled.
Tried all their different APNs, doesn't change anything, but my phone's work phone.
Nothing but problem, it's actually too stressful. I'd have something else but no fibre in my building.
I'm about 20 metered from the antenna, it's always over subscribed, spends go from 700 down to 20 during peak, their NAT system is awful for getting an IP and using external connections.
What makes it worse is their customer service and technical team. I come from telecoms, over 20 years, and these are the worst I've spoken to.
Stay away.
I have wi-fi 6 on the Huawei H122-373 which I bought from CeX uk.webuy.com/sea…373 Said it was locked to 3 but it's unlocked. 2 year warranty too. My exact model was £130 but I see it's went up in price uk.webuy.com/pro…48b
I Wouldn't recommend buying a Huawei router with Three branding expecting it to be unlocked. Most people won't get so lucky so picking one of the other brands would be wiser.
Three's MTU is 1500 Which should work just fine for Xbox gaming. That's more than high enough, and has previously worked fine for me.
The plus points are, I am restricted to 67mbs Landline broadband and the cheapest I can get it for is £23. 5g gives me up to 900mbs (and yes I had that once or twice, but it tends to be around 600mbs) for £12. So for me its pretty much a no brainer.
Likewise, most ISPs will be more than happy to give you a free install to activate your line again if you want to go back.
There's not much you can do about the cease charge if that's what your current provider wants to impose on you, but you can absolutely avoid an activation fee if/when you decide to return to fixed line services in future.
Mulling over the idea of cancelling the Three 5G plan, and going with the Smarty MSE Unlimited £16pm - if it would work with group save to drop to £14.40 - but Three *might* claim the router back, or Smarty not honour group save on that plan rendering the change useless for 18p.
Aside the odd outage it's been pretty good. I get well above 600Mbps most the time as only 1/2 mile line of sight from mast. It's used as redundancy / dual WAN in my home network setup, typically having streaming devices and guest network route over it.
1) Smarty doesn't have a dedicated broadband APN So you're stuck behind CGNAT Whick can be a big problem for some.
2) A 5G Phone will have smaller antennas inside, as well as the constant tethering potentially doing harm to the phone's battery.
Some can and do get away with doing this. But I Personally wouldn't.