KitsonRis
ClioSport Club Member
I don’t have broadband at home and still using an ADSL connection, because rural life. While the speed is ok and I can stream films, join Teams calls for work and use my VM do do work (the virtual desktop is pretty much a no go though) it is the reliability which is the worst and makes it unusable at times. It will randomly drop out over the day from about 1 min to what I had last night over 2hrs. The router is still saying “you have internet” but there is no connection. And I’m going to be WFH for 12-18months it’s not good enough. BT have one more chance at resolving this, they have sent someone to the house over the summer and they did something with the box on the wall and a new router but it hasn’t worked, I think they need to check the external connection to the house. I’m pretty certain I can cancel my contract as they are not giving the service I am paying for.
So I have been looking at other options. Satellite or 4G.
I’ve tried a 4G broadband last year and as I don’t get 5G signal they wouldn’t give me a proper router, only the credit card sized devices. And I ended up giving that back as it wasn’t good - from memory the WiFi signal it gave wasn’t good. My 4G signal is ok (I ended up streaming most of Avengers Endgame on my phone last night while my internet wasn’t working and that was fine and no drop outs).
When googling for Starlink the things I’ve found are it’s expensive and there is a cap on priority data and then once that limit is used up it’s back of the queue and no speed. But pretty much most websites are like “satellite exists but why not use our 4G service”, this is a bit like a sales pitch of buy their product though. Although it is cheaper and no limits. The ones I have seen come with a 4G antenna that boosts the signal and you also get an actual WiFi router.
Has anyone got any experience of either?
Anything to look out for? The 4G with antenna option all looks to come from unknown providers and not the usual phone companies which puts me off a little. I am on Vodafone so I know that signal is good and work gave me one of their 4G devices a while back and that was EE and that had no signal - assume need to work out which provider is supplying the 4G.
So I have been looking at other options. Satellite or 4G.
I’ve tried a 4G broadband last year and as I don’t get 5G signal they wouldn’t give me a proper router, only the credit card sized devices. And I ended up giving that back as it wasn’t good - from memory the WiFi signal it gave wasn’t good. My 4G signal is ok (I ended up streaming most of Avengers Endgame on my phone last night while my internet wasn’t working and that was fine and no drop outs).
When googling for Starlink the things I’ve found are it’s expensive and there is a cap on priority data and then once that limit is used up it’s back of the queue and no speed. But pretty much most websites are like “satellite exists but why not use our 4G service”, this is a bit like a sales pitch of buy their product though. Although it is cheaper and no limits. The ones I have seen come with a 4G antenna that boosts the signal and you also get an actual WiFi router.
Has anyone got any experience of either?
Anything to look out for? The 4G with antenna option all looks to come from unknown providers and not the usual phone companies which puts me off a little. I am on Vodafone so I know that signal is good and work gave me one of their 4G devices a while back and that was EE and that had no signal - assume need to work out which provider is supplying the 4G.
