weeb wrote: » That's a shame. I was considering buying the CPE Pro 1 but from what I can see online, people haven't been able to get adequate 5G speeds in routers. I'm not sure what I'll do.
Caspero wrote: » Worth testing if you can get 5g on a handset I think. Might not have been the CPE at fault. I'm testing a Three PAYG sim with the 5g add-on in a sim-unlocked Galaxy S10 5G and can't get 5g signal, even when I'm right next to a mast that the call centre confirmed has 5g. I've previously been able to get 5g signal with a Vodafone bill-pay SIM on the same device.
lankz92 wrote: » Maybe im just in a good area, but the cpe pro has gave me a huge boost in speeds. Iv still not seen any 5g coverage in my area but i'll happily take the speeds its giving me. When i did have 5g in dundalk for a few minutes i got over 200mb vs the usual 10-20mb on 4g. Tho i have had others say their only getting 30-40mb on 5g. Maybe it was a lucky speedtest. 4g+ at home is giving me 60-100mb average. Iv seen iy close to 250mb during the night. Thats up from maybe 10mb on the old router.
lankz92 wrote: » but the cpe pro has gave me a huge boost in speeds....Thats up from maybe 10mb on the old router.
ED E wrote: » 4G+ (LTEA) has far more capacity as it stands so you can aggregate multiple cells and get huge speeds. Going from a CAT4 say device to CAT16/20 lets you leverage a huge amount of airtime.
thund3rbird_ wrote: » Hi. I'm thinking of upgrading my 4 y-o phone & considering getting a 5g enabled one (sim free online) already with 3 so just a matter of adding the extra 5eur Does anyone know what bands 3 operate on in Ireland? the phone I'm looking at (Xiaomi Mi 10T Pro 5G) has the following 5g bands : - 5G: n1/n3/n7/n8/n20/n28/n38/n41/n77/n78 However it's NSA only rather than dual 5g. Is the deployment in Ireland mainly NSA across all operators? update: kimovil reporting it's compatible on vodafone who use N78 (3500MHz) but no info on eir or threehttps://www.kimovil.com/en/where-to-buy-xiaomi-mi-10t-pro
thund3rbird_ wrote: » already with 3 so just a matter of adding the extra 5eur
weeb wrote: » Not entirely true, you need to switch to the new 3Pay €20 p/m plan which, if you switch online this month, there is a 50% discount so you will only need to top-up by €10 to activate the plan. From there, you can purchase the 5G add-on which is an extra €5 a month. The catch between this new plan and the old one is you no longer get to keep your credit or stack it up, so once you top-up, your balance is back to €0. Unless of course you add an extra top-up yourself. This may come as a disadvantage to those who spend their credit on the Play Store.
lankz92 wrote: » N78 is the only band here iirc
Caspero wrote: » Is that also true of going from a CAT6 device to a CAT 16/20 device ED E? Also would you know if the network have to have hardware installed to facilitate this or is this managed at the device level? And when you say CAT you're talking about LTE CAT right? I see my router is LTE CAT6 but apart from seeing the max data rate, I don't really know if that means it can aggregate from multiple cells or not. My speeds never approach the theoretical maximum for the router so I hadn't previously thought of upgrading.
tiny timy wrote: » Got the HUAWEI 5G CPE Pro. What a waste. I'm getting full 5g and full 4g bars, but when i go to use it I'm only get about 50Mbps. When i do the optimise location feature, 5g doesn't even register, despite the full bars. On my Huawei b535 I'm getting 100-110Mbps on 4g. What the hell???
tiny timy wrote: » I'm getting full 5g and full 4g bars
Caspero wrote: » Have you successfully transfered any data on 5g or was the 50mbps when you were connected with 4G? I think Three's technical team have only authorised certain devices for use on its 5G network.
tiny timy wrote: » Data transfer only happens on the 4g. Will probably have to wait a while longer so for my devices to be authorised by 3 if that's the case.
1huge1 wrote: » I don't suppose that list of devices they have authorisedis available? I just assumed any device that could access the band (N78 in this case) would be fine. I have bought a One Plus 8 and I am considering Three's 5G plan, would like a bit of certainty around if it would work with my device (obviously I will ask them directly if I decide to do so).
Heraldoffreeent wrote: » 3 haven't really launched their 5G broadband yet, but it seems that it's the Huawei 5G cpe Pro 2 that they will be using. The reason I think this is that they have a web page ready to go featuring it.It doesn't as yet come up as a device on their website, but if you search google you can see the first entry after the ads gives you this: Digital | Huawei 5G CPE Pro 2 - Threehttps://www.google.ie/search?sxsrf=ALeKk03KDoLVhs1KiloYzU8_xPWvD73U3Q%3A1603304239280&ei=L3uQX-jMEJCr1fAPp-27gAQ&q=Digital+%7C+Huawei+5G+CPE+Pro+2+-+Three&oq=Digital+%7C+Huawei+5G+CPE+Pro+2+-+Three&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQDDIICCEQFhAdEB46BAgAEEdQrZwCWK2cAmDqqgJoAHACeACAAVaIAVaSAQExmAEAoAECoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpesgBCMABAQ&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwiooJjdpcbsAhWQVRUIHaf2DkAQ4dUDCA0
tiny timy wrote: » If that is the case then the CPE Pro should definitely work as they are practically the same machine. Maybe a few more weeka and there might be an resolution to it all.https://blog.router-switch.com/2020/03/buyer-guide-huawei-5g-cpe-pro-vs-huawei-5g-cpe-pro-2/
T55PLUS wrote: » Purchased a Three “5G Booster” today after using the using the “Coverage Checker” on Three(.)ie to confirm I was in an area with 5G coverage. My 5G device showed no 5G signal after a system restart so I contacted Three. Apparently 5G indoor coverage is down in my area (South Dublin) and a technical team is working on it. No time frame was given when asked.I will update this post if anything changes. If nothing changes by the end of the 28 days i'm sure the lovely Three staff that peruse these threads would consider refunding my €5…
Caspero wrote: » I suggest you ask them where a working outdoor tower is.
Caspero wrote: » When I called one of the support staff gave me the same line and told me there was only one 5g tower in my city at XYZ location. I doubted that was true given the 3 5g map shows coverage over the entire city and much of the surrounding area - that would require a lot of masts! I figured it was either the call centre personnel trying to get a difficult to solve issue off the phone or alternatively their information was out of date. So I drove right to where that 1 mast was located. No 5g signal. I stood outside my car and called the call centre again from that spot. They were able to see where I was so they couldn't use that excuse again
Caspero wrote: » They then finally logged the case with the technical team. The team responded that my device wasn't yet authorised for use on the 5g network - which makes a lot more sense than the ****e the original rep tried to sell me. She was so adamant too when I told her the online map showed coverage over the entire city..."no I just checked our internal systems and there's just 1 mast". Yeah right.
T55PLUS wrote: » Interesting, so they "registered" your device on the system and then you received a push notification with new settings from the network or something of the sort? I wonder why they don’t just register all 5G devices on the network, although probably not as simple as that I imagine.
