Hi all,
I am looking at going on Spintel’s 5g home internet plan. I currently use a mesh system. Spintel are telling me that the Nokia modem (fastmile 5g) that they supply does not support mesh units. Is anyone able to comment on this and confirm yes/no? Would be a deal breaker for me and don’t understand why it wouldn’t support mesh?
Cheers
Appreciate the response. I am kind of the opposite. Currently with Telstra 5g and i reckon on average I get 20mbps. Yet on my Optus mobile it has 5G and I consistently get 400mbps+ hence I’m thinking of swapping to Spintel.
Are you able to confirm if you could/can use a mesh system with the Spintel Nokia modem? I have no issues with mesh and the Telstra 5G modem.
I did this recently with a Sagemcom 5G modem on Vodafone. I just plug the WAN port of my main mesh router into the LAN port on the Sagemcom modem and set my main mesh router to use dynamic IP address.
I bought a fastmile at some stage, it is fast, but it doesn't support bridge mode albeit there's online tutorials showing how to add bridge mode APNs, so I can't use my own router behind fastmile without adding yet another layer of NAT.
not only that, but adding telstra.internet APN on fastmile is also impossible.
It's worse than my B818 4G router in almost every way, yes it's 5G and download speed is fast, but there's no user experience at all.
5G like 4G depends on a bunch of things like:
1) Tower distance
2) Buildings and trees etc between the modem and tower
3) Band available on the tower (not all towers have all of the bands or the bands with the biggest bandwidth)
4) Where the modem is located within the building so it gets the best signal from the tower
5) If the modem has crappy mobile hacked firmware that does not allow you so change settings in order to optimse the speed
6) Modems and phones are not the same as
Better to head over to whirlpool and check out their forums for way more info than on OZB
I live in direct line of sight of the network tower. I tried Spintel 5G home internet with supplied Nokia fastmile modem router for 6 months. It was horrible. Loads of dropouts, pathetic speeds during peak times.
Made the switch to Telstra 5G home internet with supplied 5G modem router. Been using for over 2 years now. Solid performance, zero dropouts, very consistent fast speeds all the time.