recommend me a 4G router/mifi with ethernet port

[AW10]

FIL has passed away and we have cancelled his BT Broadband as they were ripping him off to the tune of £65/month for FTTC. (Strange "loyalty" bonus.)

So looking to avoid a new contract as the house will be sold and thus after a 4G router/mifi device that has an ethernet so that the BT whole home wifi dishes can be connected. Any recommendations appreciated. Cheaper is better but it needs to work! 5G capability not a big deal.

[NDA]

These work well - it has an external antenna too which is handy. I used mine for 6 months or so - and it has ethernet ports.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06ZZL966Q?ref_=ppx_hz...

[i4got]

I got this last week as we're in a short term accommodation between house moves. Seems to do the job fine - although a lot will obviously depend on the sim service.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8652814

[Ham_and_Jam]

i4got said:

I got this last week as we're in a short term accommodation between house moves. Seems to do the job fine - although a lot will obviously depend on the sim service.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8652814

I have the Gigabit version of this at my holiday home and it performs aswell as my home broadband.

Currently a used like new on Amazon for £85 which is a good price -

https://amzn.eu/d/eaviZyB

OP, I would stay away from portable mifi as a permanent solution as they aren’t as good as the full routers.

[biggiles]

I was very impressed recently when I needed a similar solution: bought the basic TP-Link 4g router (~ £35, has eth ports) and an EE prepaid 120GB / 1 year "IOT" card (~ £60) from Amazon - popped it in and was connected to the internet a minute or two later.

[AW10]

Thanks for the recommendations - I see a TP Link 4G router and Lebara unlimited monthly data SIM in my future.

[Ham_and_Jam]

AW10 said:

Thanks for the recommendations - I see a TP Link 4G router and Lebara unlimited monthly data SIM in my future.

I run a Talkmobile regular sim (not a specific data sim card) in my TP Link 4G router. Works very well.

Currently 120Gb is £9.95 per month, or unlimited £16 per month.

If you can get Vodafone signal in your area then I can recommend for use in that router.

Edit to add - Lebara and Talkmobile both use Vodafone

[brums evil twin]

I am looking for this for use while we are camping/caravaning - the TP router looks good

But SIM cards for Data - don't want a monthly one, just one that we can top up as an when, do they exist???

Seem to find only monthly charges or you loose the un used data at the end of the month

Any suggestions? for example are away next week and would like to use the data, but then not away again until April. so don't want to pay for March and not use it

[Mr Pointy]

brums evil twin said:

I am looking for this for use while we are camping/caravaning - the TP router looks good

But SIM cards for Data - don't want a monthly one, just one that we can top up as an when, do they exist???

Seem to find only monthly charges or you loose the un used data at the end of the month

Any suggestions? for example are away next week and would like to use the data, but then not away again until April. so don't want to pay for March and not use it

Loads of these last 12 or 24 months from activation:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/data-sim-card/s?k=data+on...

[AW10]

brums evil twin said:

I am looking for this for use while we are camping/caravaning - the TP router looks good

But SIM cards for Data - don't want a monthly one, just one that we can top up as an when, do they exist???

Seem to find only monthly charges or you loose the un used data at the end of the month

Any suggestions? for example are away next week and would like to use the data, but then not away again until April. so don't want to pay for March and not use it

There are monthly SIMs rather than those with a 12 month contract.

I think you need to understand how much data you will use to steer your SIM choice. At home we often use 20GB of data per day with fixed line broadband so would need a pretty hefty allowance if we’re going to spend a week to 10 days at the late FiL’s house.

[brums evil twin]

not sure how much we would need

2 of us, a bit of social media, stream a bit of tv in the evening. Nothing major I guess

[GlenMH]

Ham_and_Jam said:

Edit to add - Lebara and Talkmobile both use Vodafone

They do but you need to check the roaming quotas if you are planning to use it abroad - they are very different.

[Ham_and_Jam]

brums evil twin said:

I am looking for this for use while we are camping/caravaning - the TP router looks good

But SIM cards for Data - don't want a monthly one, just one that we can top up as an when, do they exist???

Seem to find only monthly charges or you loose the un used data at the end of the month

Any suggestions? for example are away next week and would like to use the data, but then not away again until April. so don't want to pay for March and not use it

You don’t need a ‘data only’ sim.

I use regular sim cards.

Currently on Talkmobile you can get a 1 month rolling contract of 20Gb for £5.95 per month. Probably enough for what you have said you use it for. Cancel anytime.

Regardless of how you use it, it will probably still work out cheaper than trying to use PAYG or annual data sims.

[Ham_and_Jam]

GlenMH said:

They do but you need to check the roaming quotas if you are planning to use it abroad - they are very different.

They do. Last time I checked -

Lebara 30gb
Talkmobile 5gb

I have a Lebara sim aswell