BullDog wrote:When I was living in a city centre apartment 2018 to 2020, I didn't bother with fixed telephone line. I had a really good 4g service which was as fast and reliable as my FTTC service at home. Mobile is certainly a viable option in the right circumstances.
I'm running a 5G router to support 2*( 4k Firestick / laptop / phone ) . It ( an MC801A by ZTE ) also has two Ethernet ports, so I was able to keep my wired NAS and Hive hub.
There is an expected wander in signal strength from the tower - can go between -89 and -120dBm, but it makes little practical difference. I'm currently getting 250 Mbps into the router ( which is the real threshold since internally it runs WiFi6 ). The best I have on record is 301Mbps, and the lowest is 96Mbps. But I'd reckon 250 -ish is the norm. The local 5G tower is pretty close though.
The downside is that I have no in-house recording capability. That's rarely in issue with catch up, although ITVX does appear to suck in that if you arrive part way through live sport and choose "watch from beginning" that is exactly what you have to do - you can't fast forward through the warm up. And they take an age to get catch up online.