Home internet: Landline Broadband vs 4G?

[anonymous-user]

Hi all,

We currently use EE for our broadband at home.

It costs us £20 for combined line rental and broadband, which includes free calls from the landline phone (which we pretty much never, ever use)

The speed is poor and always has been with every provider we've had . Around 4-5Mbps.

We get EE 4G in the house, and I just did a few speed tests using the same app on the phone to measure the current broadband speed, and it confirms my suspicion that 4G is providing me with 18-19Mbps, absolutely peeing all over the landline data speed.

EE offer a 4G Wifi thingy for £20 a month, which could, I presume replace our landline rental and also broadband cost.

So I could get almost 4x the internet speed at home for the same monthly cost, using 4G.

Am I missing something here or is this plan as foolproof as I think?

[anonymous-user]

sgrimshaw said:

The EE 4GEE Wifi for £20 per month is for 15GB - is your other connection capped?

I did note the 15gb cap but feel it's doubtful I would go near that, but I suppose with more frequent use of music streaming and use of Sky's on-demand then I might do.

Fibre is available here but I just don't really want to pay £35 a month for the Internet, which I believe is what it costs (inc line rental).

Hmmm...

[anonymous-user]

So the general concencus is that I'm underestimating how much data a couple will tear through in one month, which is a good point I think.

I think if they stopped capping these 4G Wifi devices or gave limits of say 30-40gb a month for £20ish they could seriously be a huge contender to the landline/broadband option.

I'm really surprised at how fast 4G is for home browsing compared to normal broadband. Clearly it isn't fibre, but for most people the thick end of 20Mbps would be great.