https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=cu-035ioZHA
This is a video about the 4G Home router offering and a speed test in both 4G and 3G modes and a little review of where and when you would use this router.This was requested in the comments of the last video as a comparison to the 5G Home Hub and a speed test to see what the 4G Router is like.the routers were purchased from Ebay over a year ago and were in use untill December last year when i replaced the 4G with the New 5G Home Hub.Please check out my other video’s and if you like car content please check out my other channel Daily Driven Scotland.CheersAlan
Nice vid
Me: I wonder what the speed will be like in my area
Alan: I am in your area
Brilliant 😂
Does it just run on a simcard?
Hi yes just a 4/5G SIM card so really depends on your mobile coverage to what speeds etc would be like
Would my normal phone sim work in one of these? My phone sim is 100gb data?
BRO USE PARABOLIC ANTENNA AND BAND SELECTION PLEASE FOR GOOD CONNECTION TNX ME LATER
As the old saying goes you can add sprinkles to a turd but it’s still a turd 😂 an external antenna would help but. Not make a huge difference to be honest. Band selection only helps with WiFi and not with 4G
It makes me wonder if adding amd external antenna to the outside of your property would it provide beer signal strength
I have a Huawei mifi router with smarty (3) SIM installed.
I have got this for trips to a static caravan out in the wilderness in rural Cumbria.
Gets from 12-18 download and 5-9 upload up there so it works faultless for browsing, streaming netflix, BBC iPlayer etc.
Back home in a heavily urbanised environment is a different story.
Good signal and great speeds of 25 down, 12 up at 2-3am in the morning, but during the daytime the speed slows to 2-4 down, 8-10 up.
At peak times 5pm to 9pm the speed is unusable (56k dial up territory) , this suggests a system overload of the local 3 masts.
So, although I was thinking of ditching my DSL line and using 4g for home broadband, I’ve come to the conclusion that the 4g home broadband route is a non starter at the moment.
I am close to the BT exchange and although DSL isn’t the fastest technology by any means – it has always ran at stable speeds at all times of the day.
4g seems to do well in rural locations where you can get a signal, but in a city the system soon gets overloaded.
The 3g network will have less users, sometimes making it faster than 4g if your in a shitty area for signal
hi alan you really need external beam antenas pointing at nearest cell site you will find full bars on any network
Totally agree Jim, there are some nice bts of kit from Microtik etc for that. but I wanted to try an out the box easy to use plug in solution.
Well! Who’d have thought it! Put your router/antenna in a duff signal and get a crap throughput. WellINever.
Man I wish you did the speed test in different rooms to test the range of it hopefully you can in the future with the 5G one as well but this one I like to see more
Hey Thanks for watching, I done this video at the old office, as My house with 3 Kids is not youtube friendly. lol but yeah I need to make a new video a couple of years on.
Hi Alan, I enjoyed your video. I currently live Milngavie and am getting around 30 meg download from Sky. I have 4g from 3 on my mobile and noticed after a speed test I getting 40 meg download. I would like to achieve the best speed possible as I do a lot of streaming. Any suggestions? TIA Donald
I thought the China Huawei was band in the UK due to security?
Hi Alan great review of mobile broadband, I stay in the east end of Glasgow in Baillieston , I was with virgin media for 18 months with 100 mbs broadband for £29.99 a month but they wanted to put the price up to £67.99. it was lucky that 3 network provisioned a 5g mast at the end of my street and I’ve changed to them and now I’m getting up to 800mbs download’s and 70mbs uploads and it’s costing me £20 a month unlimited data.
On 4g I get over 400mbs download and 30 uploads, can’t test 3g as the router doesn’t have that setting.
The router is the ZTE MC801A cat22 and it works a treat. I took it to my brother’s house which on the 3 service map doesn’t have 5g but I got a 5g signal and got just over 300mbs.
I don’t play any intensive online games so I find the mobile broadband is exactly what I needed.
Once again thanks for your review.
I am surprised you didn’t connect the router to the laptop via ethernet cable as the speeds would have at leased doubled.