5G as Home Internet) [QUESTION]

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Hello guys,

I wanted to change the classic home internet since i am getting only 50mb/s download and 10mb/s upload. The whole houehold uses around 5-6 devices which are connected to Internet daily! Does anyone of you have experiences with 4G or 5G as home internet? I am casual gamer (will i suffer from severe latency)?

p.s at the street where are we living this is the maximum that we can get from classic home internet because no Fiber is intended for long time for our street to be implemented!

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I have 4G home internet in one place using a pay-as-you-go SIM in an old phone to create a hotspot. It works ok for normal use including youtube but is noticeably slower than the cable broadband I had before. I have a 30 or 80GB monthly limit depending on the bundle I choose.

Just give it a try with a PAYG SIM but note that different providers will probably have different quality of connection.

Proper mobile SIM routers apparently can make a difference but I think with 4G it's the 4G itself which will be the limiting factor.

I have no experience of 5G but it could well be a good option, again if you can get a good connection.

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Look at something like this from SALT

I have a 4G one, think I pay about 17.50 a month for it and it is incredibly fast. It is in a different class compared to using your mobile phone ...

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Thanks, I might have to give it a try ( Huawei E5776 or similar) might be that the router offers 5GHz whereas the hotspot only 2.4

How fast is incredibly fast? 4G will still be the limiting factor.

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Incidentally, would you know if I get set one of thse "mifi" devices as a VPN *server*? Probably not but could I connect it to another router than can?

My fritzbox allows me to set up a VPN server so I can appear to be in Switzerland when I connect to it from outside Switzerland. I'd like to be able to do the same thing with mobile data.

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I have the 5G Huawei router from Sunrise. Despite Sunrise saying that my area has 5G and despite the device displaying a 5G connection I have never seen faster than 100MB/s. Usually 40-70MB/s is the norm.

Still good enough for me to switch away from Swisscom as the unit is portable and it is a decent deal at 39 CHF/mo.

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Megabytes/s or Megabits/s?

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I'm seeing a lot of mixed reviews, some get almost full speed some fail to get past 100mb/s . Going to ask how many days do i have to cancel the contract if the speed are very bad

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If you are close to a 5g antenna go ahead

https://map.geo.admin.ch/?topic=ech&...gNodes=687,727

Anyway on the website of each isp it should tell you about the speed on that spot

https://www.yallo.ch/en/home-interne...r?openchat=120

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Based on my own box which is a Yallo rebadged Sunrise one I would say Megabits/s not bytes.

Mine's pretty variable though and I'm literally 20m from the mast in a straight line (its on the next building roof) - can be anything from 15-90 Mbit/s. Seems to get particularly low at lunchtime when I guess everyone's sat around near McDonalds hammering my mast in Oerlikon

They're doing glass fibre here next week so I'll be getting something more solid soon. I couldn't get the Sunrise deal with my L permit without paying 2 years full cost upfront whereas Yallo let me doing a normal untied monthly deal with 60 days notice which might matter to some people.

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Oh I should have also mentioned I get a ping of usually around 25-30 via 4G here so it wouldn't be that great for gaming (vs 9ms at home on UK fibre) IMO.

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Keep in mind, the coverage maps / speed predictions are for the outside. If you are using 5G inside a building the result will be significantly worse due to the frequency range in use.

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If I may please resurrect this thread...

Is anyone out there using 5G for their home internet, and if so... how's it working out for you?

We have Sunrise fibre broadband, but it isn't that good, and it's quite expensive.

I was checking out the service offering from these guys https://digitalrepublic.ch/de/ , and was wondering about taking the plunge? Trouble is, I don't have a 5G-ready router, so I would need to invest in a 5G router in order to properly test it out - I'm not sure whether simply whacking one of their SIMs into an old mobile phone and tethering it to my router would be a fair test.

Anyway - any words of wisdom from the EF gang, please?

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How do you tether a phone to a router? I use 4G (not 5G) as home internet in one place and it's fine but depends what you want to use it for.

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Sunrise provided a Fastmile 5g router for the new house. It gets a lot of use and has been great so far. (we will gloss over the 10 minutes i spent confused about how to connect it to the land line socket)

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I tested 5G for sunrise. Worked fine.

But I don't need it as I've got fibre optic.

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Well, we watch TV using the Zattoo app, but apart from that, just Teams and Zoom for work, and the odd YouTube video and that sort of thing.

So not too much bandwidth usage - I think a 5G connection should be able to cope with that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksj40g2R8As

Apparently, Android phone (not sure about iPhone) have a "USB Tether" mode, where you connect via USB to your router, and you can use the 4G / 5G connection from your phone via your home wifi network

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[QUOTE=angoose;3503157]Well, we watch TV using the Zattoo app, but apart from that, just Teams and Zoom for work, and the odd YouTube video and that sort of thing.

So not too much bandwidth usage - I think a 5G connection should be able to cope with that.

/QUOTE]

A 3G connection would have been able to cope with that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksj40g2R8As

Apparently, Android phone (not sure about iPhone) have a "USB Tether" mode, where you connect via USB to your router, and you can use the 4G / 5G connection from your phone via your home wifi network[

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I take your point!

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5G works like a charm for me, speeds and latencies comparable to UPC cable. You can use a quite recent phone model with success (samsung a52s 5g or Fairphone 4 are able to get full 1Gbps), no difference on the 5G receiving side, but huge difference on WiFi side. I have ZTE MC801A (A stands for the external antenna sockets, though I don't utilize them) and the WiFi, also on 5GHz band, covers the whole apartment with nearly no speed drop, whilst from the phone the WiFi speed was degrading from just about 1 m with no luck getting it in a next room (also the jitter/latencies were unbearable from a few meters)