I use a 3 (phone) SIM for broadband, never had a problem and regularly get 75 Down, 45 Up on speedtests. I already had a Huawei B525, so put that in my loft and get a full box of signal. It shows I used 2.98 TB in the last Month

Ha that's insane, I guess that means the 1TB soft cap pluralist mentioned is no longer in place.

Can I ask, do you know what ping/latency you get through the connection? I'm not really sure what to expect and it'll be a good week or two until I can get around to trying it for myself.

Loft is a good idea, I hadn't thought of that. Should be easy enough to run an ethernet cable up there from my room. Do you use the internal antennas or an external one?

I've only measured the latency on my phone using the opensignal speed tester. On a full fibre connection it gives 25ms on my 3 connection just now it gave 47.

I use the internal antennae, I believe I'm in range of 2 different towers.

Awesome, thanks so much mate. Just tried my phone signal from the loft and the RSRP (signal strength) went from -105 dBm in my bedroom (poor) to -80 dBm (excellent). Hopefully that'll solve the intermittent connection issue I had!

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I use a 3 (phone) SIM for broadband, never had a problem and regularly get 75 Down, 45 Up on speedtests. I already had a Huawei B525, so put that in my loft and get a full box of signal. It shows I used 2.98 TB in the last Month

Is that in addition / backup to your FTTP connection or did you move?

Different location Mate

I've never seen anyone report that the soft cap has ever been applied.

There were certainly several people regularly here clocking up 2TB+ a month even early on in the "business use" soft cap.

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Cheers for the ref link. I wasn't planning on using Smarty due to their enforced CGNAT (which Three doesn't do, assuming you use the right APN) though I may use it as a test SIM for a month or two before I cancel my fixed-line plan and commit to a 4G solution.

Have you ever found the connection to be slow or unstable? Like in fog, rain or other poor conditions?

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