3 Ireland 5g

I have it. Get 400+ speeds on it.

It's great to be honest.

Recommended it to someone more rural and it wouldn't work at all. The installer will run a check for you before going ahead.

Got this system connected this morning, technician was v helpful,no mess and he spent a bit of time getting a good signal (rural setup)

I didn’t use the router that was provided,plugged it into my mesh (orbi) ,I already had a hole drilled in wall from previous setup so used that for cable that went to outside modem (ZTE Mc7010 I think it was ) .

now it only got connected this morning and hopefully speeds stay stable and are ok in evening times , wired connection was about 350 Mpbs down 20 up.

wifi was 300 down , 20 up aswell .

If speeds stay like that I’ll be very happy, time will tell

Will do ,I’ll get an average speed over next few nights and post up results

Hi Ben ,I did have 4g beforehand with a b818 , the speed had dropped quiet a bit recently on the 4g setup,not sure why that happened so went with the 5G then , for €40 a month I’ll be happy if speeds stay consistent .

I will get my Three 5G router and antenna installed next Thursday, they said it was a two business day turnaround but that was NOT the case.

I have mentioned to them I'm in an apartment so the antenna install may be challenging but will have to await and speak to the installers.

Hope this works out as it will be cheaper than my current Virgin link and also gives me the reduction on my mobile.

Hi what speeds are u seeing at the moment?did they installed zte outdoor unit?just having some issues with mine at the moment with constant drop outs.

It is a solid solution so far, no issues at all and super fast.

I understand that it may be heavily location specific though, but from my perspective, it is a good value option

The installer basically offered to install the 'outdoor antenna (5G Gold) internally, I agreed and it was perfect.

just an update on my own problems, my speeds have gone from excellent to unusable in the evenings in the last 4 weeks, I was putting it down to possibly an error on the mast, my signal and connection looks ok , always geting 4 bars of 4g, the sped right now is 30 down and 5 up however the ping is 165, by evening i wont be able to open boards with speedtest failing to load or getting 1-5mb with 300+ ping . This was 150 d/l at one point with a 40 ping. I tried to order 5g and the order was cancelled by three now when i go in my eircode is out of 5g coverage apparently. Even though I can see the mast that was advertising 5g last week. However when I go onto cellmapper.net the mast which I had been pointing at is not showing as having anything, also I drove over to it with a 5g enabled phone and not getting any decent signal beside it.

Can I assume that three have stopped using the cell tower ? getting close to ordering starlink at this stage.

Hi, for those with the three 5G Gold service, what kind of antenna did they install? Will they put something on a mast on the roof or is it just wall-mounted on the house?

I know this is the solution for people in apartments, but I really thought they added a mast or external something on the house.

Never got charged because they did have 3 months free when I signed up but they kept returning it to me too. Submitted a complaint online and still took 2 months and lots of back and forth with them to get it cancelled. It would have been great if it kept speeds around 300 but when it was dropping down as low as 9/10Meg in the evenings it was a no go.

My parents are hopefully getting fiber this year. Supposedly available to order in June. In the meantime I was going to get them a 5G router. They have 3 broadband but only 4G. They are out of contract so its rolling. They've been told to get 5G on that would need a new contract. They got the phones 5G enabled though. Is there no pre-pay or no contract 5G options?

4g speeds via router and phone are around 3-5mb most days. I was home and did a Speedtest on my phone on 5g (Three also) and it was 110mb. They’ve now said that 5g isn’t rolled out for broadband there yet. Just for mobile. Is there a difference? Figured 5G was 5G

Yeah 90% sure it’s the B525. Speedtest on my iPhone 14 Pro on 4G shows the same low speeds as their router no matter location in or outside house. 5g goes to the 100+ speeds. Mast is overloaded I think as loads of houses down there use Three as their broadband source due to lack of other options.

Yeah the plan was to buy a 5G router and use his current sim, if they enabled the 5G, to avoid being locked into contract. But doesn't seem to be an options. Unless using a PAYG mobile sim in the router.

It will depend on actual signal/speed you get, dont rely too much on their maps. Test on the phone, 5G available? inside/outside? Don't fall for 5G adverts.

Extensive testing before commitment highly recommended, locate nearest masts, find services and frequencies they operate

Speeds might/will drop during peak time, sometimes badly, but if you get 200-300 off peak, and retain ~100 at peak its not bad.

4G below, custom setup - i don't care of their support much. 5G just about <100 off peak / 25 peak, inconsistent. YMMV

@7:30

Just few min ago, could go bit worse at times

There is NO LIMITS & NO FUP 1GB on many of their plans, if not on all, but check their web for latest plans/news

Comreg

Cellmapper

G maps

Three have their own

Go for a pre-pay €20 a month Three sim which has unlimited 5g data. Top up €20 every 28 days and away you go.

I went to go on a €29.99 3 Unlimited Broadband SIM Only and was informed to instead go with a 3 Prepay 20 Sim only plan with 'All You Can Eat Data' 5G for €20. The €29.99 plan did actually have a data cap of circa 750gb I think he said to me, he said no limit on the data on the prepay sim. Swapped out Sims and away I went. Hitting 30-120mbps (not on a 5g router, need to find one online), and need to find a good location for the router near a window facing the mast which can be seen out the widow a few km's away so trial and error. 750gb a month is a heap of data BTW anyway, I was only hitting 5-10gb per day on average when monitoring it.

3 Prepay 20 - https://www.three.ie/buy/prepay.html#sim-only

3 Unlimited Broadband Sim - https://www.three.ie/buy/broadband.html

*Ps already have a Three router so only needed a sim card btw.

The Three rep in-store said there is still a fair usage limit on the mobile broadband sim but no fair usage limit on a prepay 'all you can eat data' sim. So not too sure what to believe and I searched all the T&C's and couldn't find anything concrete on it.