Want a cheaper Internet Provider. Your advice please?

[campFIRE]

Just tested. Both the “old smartphone” and the “new smartphone” connected using WiFi from the first don’t go above 50 Mbps. When the situation is bad is even 5 Mbps.

Forcing the “old smartphone” to use 4G I get <20 Mbps.

@ChickenFat

Your problem might be thst the old smartphone provides the clients with 2.4GHz WiFi only and this might even be configurable in the settings of the 5G smartphone.

I can configure in the “old smartphone” either 2.4 GHz or 5.0 GHz. For the testd I’m using the latter.

@ChickenFat

You would probably get more than that wit a router that is ony capable of 4G but which has decent WiFi antennas.

You think? Even if I run the tests next to the “old smartphone” to get maximum WiFi strength?

@PhilMongoose

One thing you could try is using the phone with USB tethering to a PC and see if that is faster. If so, you could use an old PC as a router.

Tried this and the results are slightly better, I gain something like 10-20% speed.

From the results I think that maybe even if I have very good signal in the “old smartphone”, the antenna serving the 5G is very busy and can’t deliver much speed. This could be as I live in a city and hundreds of people could be connected to the same Salt antenna at the same time.

Thanks everyone for your input!

PS: as I was wrapping up this long post I did a last test and now the speed is 300 Mbps (tethering and WiFi using the old smartphone).
So random, so unreliable

[logitacher]

@campFIRE

So random, so unreliable

That’s TL:DR of mobile internet connections . If fibre is rolled out for 90% of the people I think the use-case of cheap mobile subscriptions for home-internet will be gone. You literally get symmetric 10Gbit/s of stable internet for 39.90.- (maybe cheaper with additional discounts).