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Hi,
It emerges the house we're moving to in mid-Jan is in a location with fairly poor broadband speed: 11Mbs.
In your experience, is that enough to stream live TV?
I work from home and often need to send and receive large files, so that might be problematic.
Should I be looking at 4G broadband instead? Is there a good, independent comparison site you can recommend? Or a good provider??
TIA.
Should I be looking at 4G broadband instead?
Depends on how good the 4G signal is - there are coverage maps from the providers but they're not very meaningful as to how well a service will work inside a particular property - the real test is to stand inside the house with a phone on that network - at a time when the network is likely to be busy. I use 4G a lot for broadband when I'm travelling for work, and on EE its usually pretty usable but I;ve stayed at places where 4G is fine until 6pm when neighbours get home from work and with extra traffic it falls off a cliff. Given than lots of people work from home theses days though that contention might be the other way around.
No, won’t be enough (for HD stuff)
If you can get a mobile signal though then 4/5G can be very fast & not expensive!
Recently got a Netgear 4G router (£100 ish) to provide backup at work, using a Smarty sim which is £20/month unlimited. Much faster than the ADSL broadband we used to have (although have fibre now)
11Mbs should be enough to stream non-HD TV - we spent a year living in a remote glen where 6Mbps was peak and we needed an external aerial to get any sort of signal. We were on EE for a year with limited data for a year before moving onto GiffGaff unlimited data for the same monthly fee. U-Switch (I think) have a 4G signal checker by postcode.
I'd run 4G on pay as you go for a while before committing to a contract with any particular provider
I'm on 4g with 8 to 15 Meg depending.
I don't bother with HD but for work it's ample
EE 4g and although it varies depending on time of day it can be up to 80Mbit. I have a 4g antennae/router from Mikrotik (SXT something or other) on the satellite dish pole.
I use EE 4G - LTE. The LTE is basically "dual band" - I've got a Huawei 5G router that does 4G LTE.
I get 60-70mpbs - so 4k streaming is fine. Work from home full time.
I get 1.5mbps down the phone line.
4G – LTE. The LTE is basically “dual band”
This is complicated, but "4G LTE" is Marketing. It's basically 4G-like performance on upgraded 3G networks. If you're being sold a 4G service or a 4G LTE service they're almost certainly the same thing.