I mean he’s just using a tip from another user, so yeah it’s documented already 
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Yup, no claim to fame here - though it was around a while before this person did the step by steps but never thought to try or care for trying 
seemed to complex when actually it’s quite simple.
Be nice if EE fell for the same.
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I initially thought the same, but for those who struggle to pay for broadband (or who have never had access to broadband) it’s probably a good deal.
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Certainly beats EE and their social tariff, which was 5gb for £12 I think.
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Why is Three 5G so fast compared to EE?? I consistently get faster 5G speeds than EE or other networks by a HUGE margin, but when dropping down to 4G, Three is just back to being bad
My EE sim and voda sim will avg 60 or 30 mb down in the same location
Is there a speed cap on the EE plan you got?
Three has 140 MHz of bandwidth to deploy, mostly 100mhz in most places.
EE has/had around 80-90, but I believe deployed only 40 which was the first lot they had on most masts initially. Same goes for the other players.
Three also has less customers.
5G at present isn’t real 5G as it anchors on 4G, but once it is solely dependent itll be gig speeds for the most part.
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It depends where you are. I had Three in London and man it was bad. So slow. EE is really fast for me, faster than my home Wi-Fi for sure.
I’m currently in the basement of my building and I’m perfectly happy with these speeds:
Ultimately 99% of day to day phone usage doesn’t require these speeds. If you’re getting 30MB/s then that’s more than enough for daily tasks.
If you’re just streaming a few things and checking emails, don’t sweat it.
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My highest 4G EE speed was 400mbps or so
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Happy with EE but it’s getting super super expensive now and I’m wondering if I switch to Three will speeds be better off?
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Depends on where you are (though EE and Three do have a mast sharing agreement).
This was on Three (Smarty to be accurate) last year.
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Wow, London?
Yep. Outside, and it is by far the best I’ve noticed.
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I wonder why it struggles so much in the consumer space. I’ve used survey equipment that has multi operator sims for years but that’s a b2b use.
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I don’t have faith in these.
They will have an anchor network, say Three (as Honest was on their network), and only in the event Three wasn’t available for any given part, they would move you across to another priority network, say O2 (the second cheapest network).
Also makes me wonder what actual bandwidth you’ll have access to.
Some mvno such as To The Moon, Plusnet, Superdrug, Lyca etc will have restricted use, IE cant use Band 20 (800mhz) for use of 4G calling, or are limited to one band at a time, not being able to aggregate bands to get anything above 60mbps say.
Then there’s the other view of. Is it a fully roam network, so you’ll only ever get roaming speeds on any network here Vs actually being hosted by a network here. Seen many reviews on ipsreview about how terrible they can be.
Could totally be wrong as usual, and if it does work as it says then fair enough.
To have it work in true form for the best coverage available, it would involve so much technical back end work IE monitoring bandwidth in use and response times to hope to most favourable at any given time etc, which would just be costly to develop (networks themselves haven’t even cracked that).
Nearly 16% increase!EE are dragging their feet in releasing device finance plans for new customers, I wonder why!? 
Sad thing is many operators will do the same so it doesn’t bode well for competition. I get it’s inflation but still, it’s a whack of an increase.
Ofc I’m sure it’ll pay for their inflation linked increased staff salaries, because if EE’s costs have gone up I’m sure they recognise their staff’s have as well 
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You’d think so, but I bet these companies still come out with millions profit this past year, meaning the increase was for greed not need.
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