Three Ireland 5G

Flinty997 · 08-09-2022 10:00pm

Cheers. I'll try one last time tomorrow.

feargantae · 11-09-2022 6:00pm

I'm travelling at the minute and I get full 5G across many EU countries with speeds around 500Mb. It's funny cos I'm on the old €20 keep-your-credit plan so I don't get 5G at home!

Tempted by the new €15 plan though...

Flinty997 · 11-09-2022 6:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119592748#Comment_119592748

I had to cancel. Stuck somewhere.

mushroom · 14-09-2022 5:30pm

Any current 3 customers try join that new '3pay Hero' plan by leaving 3 to another network for a few days? Wondering if it's possible..

dmcg90 · 21-09-2022 11:02pm

Any news on iPhone support for 3's wifi calling? Seems to only be older Samsung devices for some reason

FlubberJones · 23-09-2022 3:17pm

Wrong thread...

Flinty997 · 23-09-2022 4:45pm

Why would you cancel VM for this?

Bummer1234 · 30-09-2022 7:47am

Hi All,

I got the new €15 "3pay Hero" and find speeds are really low compared to the €20 package....Anyone else change over and find there speeds been alot lower (throttled perhaps) or maybe find no difference...Be good to hear others...

Im getting 3/4Mb when i would have been getting 19/20Mb

1992ChainGang · 30-09-2022 8:05am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119683212#Comment_119683212

I'm on the same plan, it tends to really fluctuate. I'm in south Dublin and in my home I have 5G with really fast speeds, but last week I was getting the bus in to town and it was going from 3G to 4G to 5G all in the space of 5 mins depending where I was.

Kenny Powers · 03-10-2022 5:19pm

Happens me all the time on Bill pay sometimes I've 3 bars 5G and by the time I open speedtest in a stationary position it's gone back to H - maybe it's my phone.

larchielads · 06-10-2022 4:33pm

So got myself a 5g phone , currently on hero plan 15euro. The 5g speeds are slow to non existent around Waterford city. The 4g not much better. Only reason I switched to 3 is that I couldn't get signal in work on Gomo. 😁 Gomo was flyin for me around town was gettin about 80mbs easy.

s_carnage · 06-10-2022 6:39pm

Was on the hero plan too and first 3 weeks the speeds were great at home but final week off 28 days cupid hardly load a webpage.

Customer service useless. Kept trying to blame my handset even though if I travel a few kms up the road I get full coverage again. Week onto customer service got me nowhere so going to have to go back to Vodafone.

cshk · 09-10-2022 9:30pm

Switched to the Hero plan last week and getting pretty good speeds around Swords and Lucan

https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/5311590213

https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/5311770630

https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/5311747078

https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/5311760531

Bummer1234 · 14-10-2022 8:15am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119723416#Comment_119723416

Some speeds there...What device are you using?

Can anyone recommend a cheap and cheerful 5g router? Have a 3g/4g router at the moment and would upgrade if it meant above speeds and decent coverage of course.

cshk · 14-10-2022 1:55pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119742261#Comment_119742261

iPhone 14 Pro Max

Anyone know if the new hero plan supports 5G roaming?

zoom_cool · 17-10-2022 10:52am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119544337#Comment_119544337

Are you still getting good speed thinking of going with this 5G option

BringerOfRainX1 · 21-10-2022 4:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119755178#Comment_119755178

I've been getting good speeds on average around 120-180mbps. Max it goes is around 250mbps. In the evenings at peak times it does go under 100mbps often. I'm about 9km away from the nearest mast but I'm on top of a high hill so that helps. It's definitely a massive upgrade over 4G+ anyway which was anywhere between 10 to 80mbps.

SPAWKER · 21-10-2022 9:26pm

Can anyone tell me if this auto renews or do you have to keep topping it up ?

Also anyone using this in a router full time without any issues or is it a no no ?

BringerOfRainX1 · 24-10-2022 6:34pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119777066#Comment_119777066

You can set it to auto renew with my3. Yeah it works fine in a router been testing it myself.

legrand · 27-11-2022 1:01pm

off hand - Does Three offer 'try before your buy' (context: home BB with 5g router)?

-=al=- · 27-11-2022 9:03pm

I believe you get a 14 day cooling off period to return it no strings attached

smuggler.ie · 01-12-2022 9:34pm

Online purchase only , in all other cases you have to prove persistent network issue which might be hard as their thresholds are quite low

https://community.three.ie/t5/Handsets-Devices/Returning-a-Device/ta-p/687750

dannijuno · 10-12-2022 7:51pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119683212#Comment_119683212

speeds are brutal .. 48 and gomo on 4g are much faster!

Bummer1234 · 12-12-2022 8:54am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119980702#Comment_119980702

Yea in my area GOMO is far better (Have that on my mobile) but I want a sim for the internet router so would be data heavy-ish and might go over 120Gb, Speeds where shocking on €15 package and i went back to the old sim with €20 a month and its faster but not up to GOMO speeds (Masts are around same distance away so its not like gomo is closer),

Speeds with my €15 was around 1-3/4Mb and on the €20 sim its around 10/11 around peak time, At night 12am) they would be 6/7Mb on €15 to 30/40Mb on €20 but I needed it for work so 1/2 or 3 Mb wasn't good enough.

emy · 30-12-2022 9:28pm

I moved from Tesco to Three, €20 (3 Prepay 20) and a phone, the speed is very good in Blanch, 173/19Mb upload. I am thinking whether to keep virgin media or to get rid of it. When going shopping with tesco mobile I had no coverage at all in some of the shops, with three the signal stays steady on 5G everywhere. Is it valid that the 3 Prepay Hero has lower 5G speed compared with 3 Prepay 20? I was thinking to go for 3 Prepay Hero and add €5 add-on 100 int minutes, it will suit my needs, if the 3 Prepay Hero has lower speed I ll stick with 20 plan for now.

ED E · 30-12-2022 9:39pm

When going shopping with tesco mobile I had no coverage at all in some of the shops, with three the signal stays steady on 5G everywhere

This should not be the case, they're using the same radios and 5G is generally poor indoors.

emy · 30-12-2022 9:59pm

Contrary the 5g is very good indoors, really impressed so far. The IPTV works very well connected on my phone's Hotspot.

ED E · 02-01-2023 7:42pm

Im on the old 20E/mo deal (keep the credit and get the AYCE data) but started to latch 5G cells on NYE passing through Dublin. We weren't meant to get that.... 300 odd meg down while footfall was very high. Can't fault that.

StaticNoise · 05-01-2023 4:04pm

Three Ireland is to offer 5G as standard on all plans, at no extra cost.

Customers will receive a text message when it's activated on their account. A compatible phone is required.

5G uptake is low, according to Comreg, with only 796k customers in Ireland using the service from their network.

feargantae · 05-01-2023 6:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120069440#Comment_120069440

Great news! Effective 16 Jan.

I used to get close to 1Gb down on 5G. Wonder how much it'll be now once everyone has 5G access as standard, phone dependent of course.

Three Ireland 5G

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