Anyone moved to a 5G home router?

[MacDoc]

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Optus offers a 5G node without connection to the NBN ( National Broadband ) with WiFi 7
https://www.optus.com.au/internet/5g-home-internet/5g-modem
Not available in our area yet but they rolling out across the nation ....after all that money spent on the high speed to home here - Australia too big with too few people.

 

[danp]

Isn't this for people in remote areas where they can't get cable or dsl?

 

[MacDoc]

Don't think so - Optus is going nation wide and from what I know the density of people is needed to support the cost of 5G infrastructure.
Rogers is offering.

Rogers 5G Home Internet – Rural Internet - Rogers

Experience the power of Canada’s most reliable 5G network whether you’re at home, the cottage or the countryside with Rogers 5G Home Internet

www.rogers.com

What Is 5G Home Internet? Here’s Everything You Need to Know

Carriers are starting to offer home internet packages that rely on 5G cellular data service. We’ll help you decide if it’s right for you.

www.wired.com

 

[GreyGhost]

Optus offers a 5G node without connection to the NBN ( National Broadband ) with WiFi 7
https://www.optus.com.au/internet/5g-home-internet/5g-modem
Not available in our area yet but they rolling out across the nation ....after all that money spent on the high speed to home here - Australia too big with too few people.

Lots of buzzwords on that page. Very few real numbers. Also some intentionally misleading facts. Wifi up to 20% faster may be theoretically true but wifi 6 basically requires line of sight so a 20% speed bump between wifi 7 devices with line of sight to the router is not going to be measurable by most customers. Bigger numbers better for marketing. Sell 5G and wifi7. Almost all customers will be running on 4G and wifi 5 for the vast majority of their devices the vast majority of the time.

As for home internet with a sim card, my parents had it for a while, the inlaws had it for a while. Solid meh. It is greatly dependent on signal strength and network capacity in your area. Better than dial-up but calling it high speed would be a stretch in many locations (my parents were about 1Mbps most of the time).

EDIT:
Real numbers are on another page with max speeds of 50/100/200 for the plans. Those would be ok if you got close but my experience was like MM's where real speed is a dumpster fire compared to the advertised speed. Performance is very location dependent.

 

[Mad Mike]

Got one for my notrthern home from Rogers - nightmare. The appeal to me was portability, I could move it between home and worksites, and it was a month to month deal, so when when I’m not up north I could shut off the billing.

Turns out Roger’s will sell the service knowing there is no 5G available where you live. That was my first issue.

The second was performance. The router only delivered 0.4 mbps down, strangely 5mbps up. I need down bandwidth.

After countless hours on the phone and just as many excuses, I packed it up and sent it back.

I just hotspot my phone, a bit of a pain as it has to be enabled everything you want to use it, but it’s works.

 

[Lightcycle]

Was at a camp'n ride in the bush a few weeks ago. Far, far away from any cell towers, so no coverage.

The organizer had a satellite Internet hotspot available for all the participants at basecamp.

Not fast. Not cheap. But if all else falls through and you need connectivity, this may be your only option.

 

[GreyGhost]

Was at a camp'n ride in the bush a few weeks ago. Far, far away from any cell towers, so no coverage.

The organizer had a satellite Internet hotspot available for all the participants at basecamp.

Not fast. Not cheap. But if all else falls through and you need connectivity, this may be your only option.

After trying and giving up on dial up, wireless, cell phone and dsl my parents plugged their noses and installed starlink. Infinitely better than all of their previous solutions.

 

[Lash]

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Lightcycle said:
Was at a camp'n ride in the bush a few weeks ago. Far, far away from any cell towers, so no coverage.

The organizer had a satellite Internet hotspot available for all the participants at basecamp.

Not fast. Not cheap. But if all else falls through and you need connectivity, this may be your only option.
After trying and giving up on dial up, wireless, cell phone and dsl my parents plugged their noses and installed starlink. Infinitely better than all of their previous solutions.

Same for me. Our house in Newfoundland is in a village that has no cell service and your choice of Bell or nothing for phone, internet and tv. This time here I installed Starlink and the results are no contest. Last phonecall on Bell will be to cancel them.

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