Rural home broadband v mobile 4g router - help!

[countrylifer]

We’re about to move to an extremely rural property, but only renting for a year so can’t make any dramatic changes.

Predicted speeds from EE are 0.8mbps down, 0.5 up. Dire. The house is at least 5 miles from the nearest exchange so no other provider will be able to do any better.

However, the 4g coverage in the area is very good so I’m now investigating EE’s 4GEE wifi and am keen to get opinions from people in a similar situation! Is it better than suffering the speeds above? Do you find the connection stable? Is there anything else should I be thinking about? I don’t want to go down the satellite broadband route as it’s so expensive to install, and we’ll only be there a year. I know they also have very limited data usage too.

ps we already live rurally, and have managed on 5-10mbps down for years - we’re not city dwellers moving into the depths of the countryside with expectations of fibre! These speeds are just particularly bad so need to be prepared with other options.

Go for it. Our ADSL has always been rubbish (

I live in the arse end of nowhere quite rurally and we've been using a mobile 4G thing from 3 for the past 2 years. It's great - speeds of 30/35mbps.

Dds boyfriend is a wifi engineer and says it's the way to go for places like us, where the exchange is miles away.

We have stable speeds (in quite a big houze) and can stream etc well.

Before you sign up for the router buy a pay as you go sim and check the coverage from EE. You can load pay as go sims in iPads but they need setting up on a phone.
I’m probably going to do the same when I move.

could you politely ask any of your soon-to-be neighbours?

We've got a 4g and although I'm rural, I'm up on a hill and I can see the antenna on the hill on the other side of the valley so our signal is around 90/100mps average and we don't even need the aerial in the window. We use 3 Unlimited and its always been pretty stable apart from 3 days last week when there was engineering works going on but both DH and I have wfh for over a year with no issues at all.

Thanks so much everyone. I've just been to check the coverage and on a 4G speed test there is 90 down and 8 up, outside the house, which is fantastic! Inside the house is much much lower though - will an antenna help the great speeds outside come inside?! I'm very techy as you can see

If you put router (with its antenna) in the window it should get and propagate decent level of signal indoors. Better to get a router that has SMA connectors, giving option to screw in external antenna, just in case. I like Teltonika, but for short-term use something cheaper should work. Maybe Huawei B311 or B535.

@outwest

If you put router (with its antenna) in the window it should get and propagate decent level of signal indoors. Better to get a router that has SMA connectors, giving option to screw in external antenna, just in case. I like Teltonika, but for short-term use something cheaper should work. Maybe Huawei B311 or B535.

Thank you!