Anyone tested speed/coverage difference between phone and router they provide?

I just went umobile times square this morning, say no 7 day change of mind period. If bad line at home means have to suck it up for 24 months contract. Other telcos also have this 7 day period.

I did for my ZTE MC8020. Just link ASUS as main wireless router while switching off 2.4GHz/5GHz radio on the ZTE. Of course since the 5G modem gets hot (not like super hot lah), just put cheap USB fan too cool it down lorh. I set the modem to reboot on daily basis.

But ya, Double-NAT'ng... cant be helped. Atleast solutions like Tailscale and Zerotier are there, also VPN included.

Few years ago I tried U-mobile postpaid on my phone, the 4G signal is quite terrible at my area (Hulu Langat).

Not sure how's it now because I am planning to get this U Home 5G for my parents to use it at home since they don't have Unifi and the Unifi port at my area also quite full from time to time.

Maybe I should get the starter pack sim card and buy 1 week plan to test it out.

I got a 4G modem at home, bought it couple of years ago, those modem that unlocked can use all types of sim card and bypassing the data quota one... not sure if I can use that to test this U home 5G or not... for sure cannot get 5G signal since it's a 4G modem by the way. will also test it on my iPhone to check signal strength.

Anyone could give me some advice or how to properly test it? Thanks in advance.

I just bought a u-mobile prepaid sim (RM10). Will load some money into it and buy the weekly plan.
Will test it with my iPhone 12 Pro via Cellmapper and see if I can get B28 most of the time.
I checked u-mobile coverage website, my parents house is at the edge of 5G but within the coverage, while 4G is fully covered. Hope both 4G and 5G there are usable. Of course if can get B28 most or all the time then will be great.

Will test it first, thanks Mr alien and cyktai   

How to lock for ZTE bro? just got the unit. it keeps jumping to 4g, even if i put only 5G NSA only.

how i know jump to 4G? when speed is below 100 mbps confirm is on 4g line

oh ya they locked for u already actually.

if u go to advanced settings - others section - u can go developer options - enter password - network debug.
this zte lose to Zyxel NR5103e.

Speed is about the same, but zte lose latency. Zte latency is about 17-19, Zyxel latency is about 14-17

Using Honor 90 lite to perform the testing now.

Phone showing 4G+ (ald turn on 5g) Cellmapper showing band 1,3,7,8 most of the time with RSRP -100 ish.
Occasionally showing band 28 with RSRP around -80 ish.

But I’m still on the given free data 1GB la. Haven’t buy the weekly plan yet.

Received my umobile 5G home. Unboxed, insert SIM which comes together. Waited for few hours and Sim is yet to be activated from umobile

If only someone knew how to circumvent the torrentint part without extra subscribing to a diff service , pls let me know. I'm kinda sick of locked in unifi 99 plan for the damn 100mb

What's your typical torrent speed with VPN ?

The thing is I seldom torrent.  Maybe once in a few months for a file or 2...
But the problem with this umobile is it's ZERO connections. If it's like throttled speed I still can accept. But it's totally zero. Sigh...

Is there any browser type of torrent client or plug in ? Opera browser itselt contains free VPN so we can do it.

You can try using Cloudflare WARP. The free one should be enough. https://1.1.1.1/

May I know how to do ya? I went to 5G setting, disconnected the connection and yet i can only change from Automatic to Manual, but there is no other setting shown after I switch to Manual.

Hi,
The below are my observations in comparison between the ZTE MC888s (just started my contract) and Deco X50 5G (which i pinjam from my office to test).

Using the supplied ZTE MC888s, when I had first used it, it was pulling a paltry 50 to 100Mbps. I then took out that sim card, and with default settings on the Deco (I didn't change any its settings and no, my office staff isn't smart enough to change the network settings... they prefer everything default!), it was consistently getting 500 to 600Mbps!

Coming here, and reading this thread, I modified as per the information provided (aka 5G NSA, Band 78, Band 28 for 4G), and the values went up to 250Mbps but still no match for the Deco.

FYI, the tests were done one after another device, and to the same servers on SpeedTest (KL - ViewQwest).

Any ideas what else can be done to bring the numbers closer to the Deco? I know the Deco has way superior modem, but at half it's download value for the ZTE?

Thanks for the comments...

I want to try the Umobile line with my Xiaoxi 13T Pro, but seems like cannot detect. I check the DNB supported device, and 13T Pro is not on the list. Is that the reason ah?

Do I need to buy?
From the app it seems I already have a high speed data

While I don't face your random and frequent DC's , I too am facing some daily or every alternate day DC's. No firmware to update according to the portal.

I will see the following error on the display logs (Advance Settings > Others):
Apr 13 12:51:26  : [user][info]Rndis(1657): OnConnectFail, rndis_check_connect_state_count=0

Annoying... not sure whether it helps anyone else

Mine DC this morning. Notice DC usually in the morning. Wait for awhile to see if it recover by itself but nope.

My SSID still up n the physical modem show green colour for the signal. So I logged in to modem and changed my 5G NSA to 4G and click apply. Then changed back to 5G NSA back and apply again. Then everything works fine.

I can just restart the device but just wanna quick fix. Modem booting is slow. If this happening frequently and if I got the timing right in the morning, I might schedule the modem to restart daily.

3 bar. but bar doesn't mean anything to me. It's the signal strength dBm that I am are looking for. The sinr and stuff 

I played a lot with it during this Raya. Went from my home in cheras, to my hometown in Ipoh then back  to wife hometown in tangkak

Yeah played a lot with placement. My tower is around 100metres away but my signal not that good. I guess other houses n buildings blocking the way. Anyway I'm happy with average 300mbps. Terminated my unifi already