Three Ireland 5G

I can recommend the CPE Pro 2 anyway. I was a bit skeptical of Huawei coming from an Asus router but mines been great so far. If you can get a 5G signal indoors on your phone and a speed test shows decent speeds, then signal/speeds should be good on the CPE Pro 2. I'm only using 4G on mine and getting 160-200 Mbps down and 50-65 Mbps up, delighted with those speeds. I'd say mileage could vary a lot between masts...

One thing I didn't know with Three broadband, if you want to access devices in your LAN remotely it is not straightforward. Three is using CGNAT and assigns you a private IP. You are behind double NAT so can't even use DDNS to connect to your router remotely, you have to tunnel in. I can't imagine most people will need this but it was a pain for me and is worth mentioning IMO.

Judging by this post on the Three Community, they might be looking to change this situation (maybe by enabling the use of ipv6 instead of their half-arsed ipv4 approach, who knows).

feargantae wrote: »

I'm starting to pick up 5G on the old €20 plan. Getting speeds of about 400Mb down, but the coverage is very intermittent and different from the other 5G plan i had where i was getting ~900Mb down

Just 4g+ for me on old plan, have a Xiaomi note 9t

ArrBee wrote: »

I've seen coments around the difference between 5g and 4g+
My understanding is that not all three 4g cells will be 4g+
Is that correct?
If so, what's the best way to check before upgrading my router?

Cheers

Easiest way I've found is:

- View nearby sites on https://siteviewer.comreg.ie/
- Look for sites where there are multiple Three towers. If you see two Three towers, one with a "3_" prefix, one with "THREE_", you can be fairly certain that site serves 4G+
- 5G sites _should_ have "NR" in the services area

ArrBee wrote: »

Is that reliable as a method?

The closest site to me has both THREE_ and 3_ variants, is there any chance it is not serving 4G+??

Download the nperf app its very reliable and accurate shows you the coverage 3g 4g 4g+ and 5g of providers in your area.I use this all the time .

I went into three shop in Kilkenny l10 days ago to upgrade to 5g €45 plan. Was told my address does not qualify although I can get it on iPhone 12. The transmitter is on Glencaum a hill between Graiguenamanagh and Thomastown. Rang three customer care at three and was told yes it was available. Funny it shows it’s available on their coverage map, which is not up to date. Went back in today and was told again that I could not get on the plan as it’s not available at my eircode address and in fairness to the three assistant in the shop, I was able to see yes he was correct. Where would you go from there? Talk about encouraging us to CONNECT!! Am thinking of getting a router HUAWEI CPE pro 2 from Poland on eBay. Anyone got one from there?

Apologies if not the place to ask but what APN settings should I be using to get 5G from Three. Just paid 25 quid for a PAYG Sim with the 5 Euro 5G 28 Days Data and I'm about 1km from a 5G enabled three mast but only getting 4G and 4G+. And yes my phone is 5G capable :) I've a Xiaomi Redmi K30 Pro. In the settings on the phone I can select to use 'NR' only which I believe would be 5G only but when I select it I immediately get no data. Have to go back to NR/LTE to then get 4G/4G+.

Thanks. Is that the APN address yeah? Any proxy/port or other settings?

Does anyone know if installing one of Three's antenna dishes for 5G would void the homebond warranty on a new house? I'm worried it might due to drilling the outer concrete wall that would likey need to happen

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Do you need to be close to 5g mast to benefit from full speed as I assume 5g range is much shorter than 4g.

I only get between 5mb - 30mb speeds with 4g currently. Doubt 5g would help much as I'm bit far from mast.

If you have a 5G phone or someone that does you can test the coverage and speed around the house and see. There is one particular spot out the back of mine that was great when I was testing 4G+ on my phone last year and that's where I put an external antenna.

Interesting about the external antenna might try that. How much did cost you setup antenna and is it easy enough install yourself?