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I know we're off-thread but I thought I'd update on my 5G phone hotspot issue from last week. I spent the day using a 5G phone as my work connection. Spent the whole day speaking with students over Blackboard Collaborate, so a decent test of it. Used up 17gb of data in the day.
The connection was quick enough but it dropped out for 2-3 minutes about 4 or 5 times so that was a ballache. I was getting around 80mbps download and 20mbps upload, so not exactly blisteringly quick and not significantly quicker tham my 4G iPhone gets in the same spot.
I'm going to send it back to Virgin and give a 4G router from Three a go and if that's in the same sort of region speed wise but is more stable I'll go with that as it's only £11 a month.
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Quick update to this: had two Deyas after the Arbors and fell asleep watching the replay of Omloop. Woke up at 1am on the sofa. Downed a pint of water, got up too quickly and promptly passed out. Woke up on the wooden floor an unspecified amount of time later, wondering what the wet red stuff was around my eye.
Going to give Omloop another go now. Third time lucky I hope.
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Thanks. Didn't even know 5G routers were a thing. None of the providers can get close to £26 a month for unlimited data though. 100gb a month might be ok, but EE want £75 a month for that, Vodafone want £30 plus £100 up front. I might just order the cheapest phone through Virgin and give it a go for the 14 day cooling off period and see how the experience is.
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Has anyone actually used their 5G phone as their main connection? I just called Virgin Mobile and the guy I spoke to said their unlimited data packages are truly unlimited and I'd be able to tether multiple devices and use it like a normal connection.
The studio space I rent has a slow connection (12mb download / 0.6mb upload!) that costs me £25 a month and I can't get a fibre connection installed as it's a unit within a building and no company wants to get tangled up in the logisitics of that. It's in the centre of Bristol though so if I can get Virgin's cheapest 5G phone for £26 month with unlimited data then I can just stick it in the window and forget about it.
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