Three 5G Home Broadband - Speeds to good to be true?

It's good in all likelihood because you are probably amongst the first to avail of it in your area.

5G on phones is still primarily the reserve of high end smartphones and 5G modems and packages are only really starting to be pushed in recent months.

3G and 4G both had incredible speeds when they first launched but when practically no-one was using them, over time contention and oversubscribing saw speeds plummet at peak times (I can easily surpass 250Mbps on Three 4G+ at home in the middle of the night, but at 8PM I'd be lucky to maintain 5Mbps).

5G will be no different.

All it takes is a few heavy downloaders in your area to subscribe to Three and your 500Mbps could easily go down to the same 30-40Mbps but with far greater likelihood of jitter and packet loss.

Got a HUAWEI 5g CPE pro 2 from three about 3 months ago. Was getting a steady 70 mbs from mast 9 km. away. Two months ago the mast in Thomastown was upgraded to 5g and speed was excellent. Checked on phone and it was circa 100 mb and still is. Problem is that the 5g received by the router have dropped gradually down to 30 during day and 15 after 6 pm. I still see the iPhone 13 which has 5 g from three also has the same speed of circa 100. On ringing three, they tell me they are different signals, frankly I doubt it, can anyone explain ? I get the feeling the router has been throttled backl switched sims and yes the router sim in my iPhone worked up to 100 but in the router only gets 30. A customer service person in Mumbai for three tells me once the signal is between 2-70 it’s deemed 5g.

Just looking at this now too. Three seem to be the only ones offering 5G in my area. (other than Imagine who I'm not sure can be trusted?).

Three 5G gold is only 39.99 a month with free engineer installation to put up an antenna. It seems a bit too good to be true. The catch seems to be a 24 month contract. Did anyone go ahead with it?

I've seen speeds up around 400 at times with it beside the router, just did speed test now about 10m away from router and got 200mb. No noticeable difference in performance between those speeds unless downloading heavily. Dropped once since I got it and had to reset it, that's in about 6 months.

I'm very happy with it and was my only realistic option to move away from virgin and their ridiculous pricing increases. Its just as good as the virgin service and half the price

We signed up to the 5G Gold plan during the summer with professional installation. The speeds were mostly between 100-400 megs which was pretty good. It did drop down to 9meg for a full day in the 14 days cool off period so I ended up cancelling it because I couldn’t chance being stuck in a 24 month contract if it would dip that low. I chanced putting in an Eir sim into it to see what speeds it would get and they were far more stable than 3s and faster too- that was just pure curiosity, didn’t stick with 5G broadband

theres 14 day cooling off if you buy it through three.ie but to be honest it was a 4/5 week ordeal trying to get them to cancel the account despite providing the cool off return number and sending it back to them.

Ended up ordering SIRO in the end which became available the same week. No comparison.

"lightning fast" is not definitive, do you have numbers? Thanks

Great, please update after completed install.

I find it brilliant. I'm also getting a ping of between 19-20 when I do a speedtest. I think this is pretty good. Probably nowhere near fibre pings but I can't get fibre.

If you got the Three 5G you should insist on a professional install. It's advertised as coming with free professional install so that sounds odd or unprofessional.

Definitely should be faster than the plug and play 3G/4G indoor speeds, as you're getting the outdoor signal indoors. But depends on your location as 5G is different technology to 4G. If you installed yourself, have you tried various sides of the house to get the best signal?

mobile is mobile - it varies from install to install. Personally i have better DL on 4G than 5G in my place, little better UL on 5G

5G on ZTE MC801A

4G on Huawei B818

By the looks of it, my 4G speed is limited by mast capability(no fluctuation, regardless day time), not by signal/hardware, as its steady like at the "ceiling" level.

YMMV, you could be in better spot than i am

5km unlikely will provide 5G.

4G feasable, but likely will require external antenna. Can recommend Iskra P60

Yes I have it for about 2 years now at home. It's been flawless. Have seen speeds of 400 at times but don't really care, it just works.

The above means nothing to you though because you don't live in same place as me, depends on your area.

Most likely three offer ZTE MC7010(external modem) + T3000(internal router) combo - usually indicate that they expect 5G coverage. In areas that 5G not available they dont.

You have my screnshot of 4G@190Mbps (YMMV)

I should say i agree with opinion of cable better than MBB. As long its ~100/20 it might be more reliable than MBB and perhaps less hassle. Cost is the other aspect of it.