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Hopefully this could help other forum members as well.
Parents live in a the sticks and there wired broadband is poo (under 1 meg).
On the roof of the house, there is a 4G signal.
I want to help them set up a 4G mast on the house and use a data plan.
Any pointers and gear I need to do this would help and also advice on data plans.
Ells
A 4G router is easy to find, hopefully a decent brand one would have a connection for an external antenna if you need it. Can you not get 4G in the house with a phone?
Works for my parents. EE will stick a 4G antenna on your roof if you sign up for an 18 month contract. They get over 100mbps and use about 30GB/ month.
We live in a decent sized village and yet the wired BB is still lousy... I stuck an EE 4G router in a couple of months ago and it's great. Much, much better speeds and far more reliable than the Sky one we were relying on. We didn't need a roof aerial and the router is in a cupboard towards the middle of the house. I was told that running a long cable from the roof aerial would negate any benefit but luckily don't need it.
Not cheap at £60 a month for 200Gb and we use a good proportion of that each month.
Same as meesterbond here. Live 6 miles from Bath and the best we could get normally was about 1/2mb download speed, ditched BT after a fight and got a EE 4g router. £30 for 100gb monthly on a 12 month contract, been faultless so far, although towards the end of the month we have to temper the downloads! Normally get 25-40mbps download/ upload speeds which is a revelation after the piss poor BT service. No need for a 4g mast here.
Similar situation here with piss poor broadband speed of circa 1Mbps and have looked at 4G as a possible solution.
With an antenna it would work brilliantly for us, however, with a data hungry teenage boy in the household, I've yet to find a reasonably priced unlimited data tariff, as 200gb per month doesn't come anywhere near enough the amount we would need.
Its been a few months since I last looked at available tariffs, so if anyone has found such a moon on a stick requirement, I'd be delighted to hear about it. 😃
If you can get a Three connection you can use their all you can eat tarif for 35 per month (no contract either).
We've used a few in some offices we have let for a relatively short term and have regularly used 80 - 90 GB a month with no issue
Whereabouts? Are they in B4RN's catchment area?
I will need an aerial as the only way to get a 4g signal is taking the phone on the roof where it gets signal in just one area.
So a 4G router and an aerial will do the trick with a data plan?
Can I install something like a Vodafone sure signal on the roof or just get the 4G router and aerial?
I also have a 4G aerial on the roof, and the 4G router is in the attic a metre or so away from it. I have an ethernet cable running back down from there to a WiFi access point the middle of the house.
The antenna is from Solwise.co.uk. The one you need depends on whether you can see the transmitter or not. If EE will install one go for that.
> Can I install something like a Vodafone sure signal on the roof or just get the 4G router and aerial?
If you have a modern Apple or Android phone you can use "wifi calling" - which is like a sure signal without having a sure signal. It's carrier dependent. Three & EE support it, not sure about the others. Calls get routed over whatever wifi you're on if signal is weak.