I don't see 3Prepay Hero on their website? Is it new?
How come the 3 prepay hero plan is only €15 and has better benefits including 5g than the €20 plan?
Says it's sim only. What's the difference?
How much did it cost to install?
Well got it installed today.
Below is the speedtest.
Frankly, I'm amazed. We're about 3.5 miles from nearest tower without line of sight.
Hopefully it will continue to be this good ( this was in middle of the day today)
You can find many 5G Phones these days. they have successfully tested 5G services in many areas. I am using my HPE 742816-S01 (https://www.allhdd.com/hpe-742816-s01-g8-rack-server/) server on 5G
Well it's an outdoor router so the cable is an ethernet cable (which also provides power) though one end of the long thin cable has a fitting to cover the area where it's plugged into the router to make it waterproof.
Here's a video. She uses a regular cable but the long one is just longer and flat/thin so it will go through a window and you can close the window. It comes with the router so you get a look at it in the video.
Seems to be quite an expensive router if you were to buy it yourself.
This is the cover to make it waterproof. this is pre-attached to the long cable. with the cable going through the hole and the connector on the other side. It looks to me like you would have to remove the connector if you wanted to put your own cable through this hole. But as the video shows the cable comes with the router.
Is there a model number or markings to id that long cable?
I figure I'd sooner buy a (unlockd) ZTE 5G router online myself and continue to use a pre-pay Three sim
My installation is scheduled for aug 30th so I'll let you know. From the research i've been doing it seems highly unlikely it will work. It's actually an outdoor router rather than just an antenna. whether that makes a difference I don't know.
Would be interested in your experience as I'm in the same situation. Just on the edge of the map and can't get 5G on the phone when I put the add-on on my account. I'm just curious as to whether the external aerial will make much of a difference.
Randomly got 5G the other week in Seapoint, strange how you can sometimes get a service you dont pay for
For anyone interested I ordered the Gold 5g broadband package.
They have sent out this kit:
ZTE MC7010 -outdoor 5G router
ZTE AX3000 router
There is a long cable for the outdoor router that is thin and flat. Therefore it is unlikely they will drill through the wall as it will likely work going through a window.
Unfortunately they cannot install it for me for another two weeks so I don't know if it will work.
Obviously my address is on their map but frankly I'm sceptical as we barely get 4g.
We'll see.
apologies if this is the wrong place to post but I recently upgraded with 3 and bought a new phone online, as of yet I haven't been charged for phone (not that I'm complaining)! I normally upgrade in store but what I'm wondering is will price of phone be added to my next bill?
thanks, and sorry if in wrong thread
I dont want to leave Three as get to keep the credit, ive saved it up and soon have enough for goolge drive 2TB for the year (mostly google photos)
Then I use it to pay for a sub to use an app to sync the picture folder with two clouds
If they stop the keep your credit plan then I will move as seems to be the 4G speeds are crap
have you tried Eir 5G? I'm in doubt between Eir and Three
Yeah just sent text to see and that's only option , thanks
Suppose keeping the credit for cloud storage or apps etc is worth 4G Only
Text ‘Add Data’ to 50272 to see what data add ons are available.
https://community.three.ie/t5/Products-Services/Self-Serve-SMS-Options/ta-p/760571
Probably only option on legacy plan is 500MB add on
Has anyone got the addon and kept the old E20 keep your credit plan OK?
Plus would 5G work on a pixel phone and are the speeds much better?
Cheers
Wow! That's the fastest I've seen yet.
Very impressive 5G throughput on Three just outside Cork City.
I'm about 9km from the nearest 5G mast and on the edge of the coverage area according to their map. I think I will wait a little longer and test it out with a 5G phone down line before getting a 5G modem and prepay SIM setup. In regard to the external antenna it cost around €250 I think with extra cable that I needed. Had to run a lot of cable though the attic to reach the room with the modem. I attached it to a pole so I could change the direction in future if I need to. There is a lot that goes into the installation but it depends where your modem is and where the best coverage/speed spot around your house is.
Interesting about the external antenna might try that. How much did cost you setup antenna and is it easy enough install yourself?
Last time I tried was about 14/15 months ago, not long after 5g was launched, it may have been an early teething issue and might be sorted out now, or it may have been only on the sector or mast I was connected to.
The problem I had was with video, If you were streaming video from some sites, the timeout would last long enough and the reconnection was slow to intiate, so video would stop and it would be several seconds to a minute before it would restart.
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.
Depends on the frequency band used, the higher the frequency the shorter the range. The MNOs are using the 3.6 GHz band for 5g now, also the 1800 MHz band iirc.
4g is used further down in the 700/800 MHz bands, so greater coverage. The 700 MHz band is a future 5g band.
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.
I don't mind paying the extra fiver for 5G but if it times out as much as you say it may not be worth it.
I bought it with that intention, but I found that the Three sim on 5G timed out more often than on 4G, and for a longer period(this was about a year ago) so, as three had upped their 4G game, and are giving me 200/300Mbs, I stuck with 4g, also, my 4g sim is of the old prepaid type, meaning I can use the credit to pay for disney+, buy google books etc. I fI go 5g, I pay €5.00 extra, and lose the use of the credit.
Well that answers that question then. Glad to hear. Are you topping up a three prepay SIM for 5G yeah? I might start doing it with the ZTE MC801a.
I bought the Huawei CPE 2 Pro from Sotel, works fine with three SIM for 4g and 5G.
German Tech website Sotel sells it for €275. They sell it on Amazon also for €313. Cheaper to buy it directly. I'm not sure if three's 5G will work with one that isn't sold by them though. My guess is they don't want people topping up prepay SIM cards for €25 and putting them in 3rd party 5G modems for proper unlimited data like people already do with 4G.
