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Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network

From Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Newsgroups uk.telecom.broadband
Subject Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network
Date 2026-05-21 10:41 +0100
Organization University of Cambridge, England
Message-ID <7Qv*rt7GA@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> (permalink)
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Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> I have just spoken to EE about this.
> 
> I can get 4G in the village and was offered 2 packages:
> 
> 100 Mb/s unlimited downloads £35 per month
> Max speed (whatever the SIM supports) unlimited downloads £43 per month
> 
> I currently get 12 Mb/s over my landline so the potential speed is a dream.

Be aware that mobile networks are very traffic-sensitive, much more so than
DSL.  When other people are using them heavily the data rate will drop,
potentially a lot, conceivably to zero if the cell is overloaded.

> Problem is the connections is via a small box that you can take from room 
> to room and connect to via WiFi so whenever I want to use the Internet I 
> have to connect (up to 5 devices a time).
> 
> At the moment I feed the connection into my powerline so it's available in 
> any room and the router also has WiFi so any device can connect via WiFi.
> 
> Does anybody here have this sort of service? If so is it something that 
> you get used to? It's quite a different way of working.

You don't need to use their supplied hub if you don't want to.  When you
have their SIM card you can put it in any device.

You can get routers which look the same as a regular routed for wired
broadband, that just take a SIM card and use that for the broadband
connections.  They have wifi and ethernet that works like any other router. 
They would be a direct swap for your existing router.

If you have a non-ISP router lying around, some of them already support that
if you add a 4G/5G USB dongle.

Theo

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Broadband Over the Mobile Network "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-05-21 09:15 +0000
  Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-05-21 10:41 +0100
    Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-05-21 10:05 +0000
      Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> - 2026-05-21 10:16 +0000
      Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Roger Mills <mills37.fslife@gmail.com> - 2026-05-21 15:07 +0100
    Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Mark Undrill <spam@invalid.invalid> - 2026-05-21 11:17 +0100
  Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2026-05-21 12:34 +0100
    Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-05-21 14:11 +0100
      Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-05-21 13:19 +0000
        Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-05-21 15:06 +0100
          Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2026-05-21 22:09 +0100
            Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-05-22 00:01 +0100
              Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> - 2026-05-22 05:43 +0000
              Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2026-05-22 08:22 +0100
                Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> - 2026-05-22 07:36 +0000
                Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2026-05-22 09:15 +0100
                Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-05-22 21:47 +0100
                Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 10:09 +0000
                Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 10:32 +0000
                Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-05-23 20:48 +0100
                Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> - 2026-05-24 06:11 +0000
                Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-05-24 11:27 +0100
                Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> - 2026-05-24 11:18 +0000
                Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-05-24 14:18 +0100
                Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network David Rance <david@SPAMOFF.invalid> - 2026-05-24 18:37 +0100
                Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-05-24 22:10 +0000
                Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-05-25 10:21 +0100
                Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-05-24 10:58 +0100
                Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-05-24 11:29 +0100
      Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2026-05-21 14:23 +0100
        Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-05-21 15:15 +0100
          Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2026-05-21 22:16 +0100
      Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-05-21 14:12 +0000
      Sending email from own server (was: Broadband Over the Mobile Network) Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2026-05-22 13:59 +0100
        Re: Sending email from own server Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2026-05-22 14:20 +0100
          Re: Sending email from own server Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> - 2026-05-22 15:23 +0000
            Re: Sending email from own server Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2026-05-22 20:03 +0100
    Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2026-05-21 19:01 +0100
  Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-05-21 13:26 +0000
  Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2026-05-21 15:18 +0100
  Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Jason H <jason_hindle@yahoo.com> - 2026-05-30 09:29 +0000
    Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-05-30 13:43 +0100
    Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> - 2026-05-30 15:54 +0100
      Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-05-30 16:01 +0100
        Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> - 2026-05-30 20:12 +0100
      Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-05-30 17:22 +0100
      Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-05-30 17:25 +0100
        Re: Broadband Over the Mobile Network David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2026-05-30 17:51 +0100

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