Want to ask, if I get the Umobile 5g broadband sim (68/-) , can I put it in my Unifi Air 4g router for time being before deciding what 5g router to get. Will it work ?

If can, will I be able to get full 4g uncapped speed ?

Thanks for replying. I am using my own Huawei router (not from Unifi) . It only support Unifi Band 38, so always only connect at 38. I used to be able to go full speed (uncapped) around 30-50 mbps, but recently they became aware and capped my speed to 20mbps max ( the specified speed for my package).

Now it's time to ditch Unifi Air.

Looks like can't ditch Unifi Air 4G yet.

Bought the Umobile 5G Home broadband (rm68/-) today, put it in my Huawei 4G router, and what I got made me nearly fell off my chair, not because it was good, but it totally SUCKED.

I could only get DL 3 mbps, Going to cancel as soon as I can. In the meantime going to put back my unifi sim (79/-) in the Huawei Router. At least Unifi capped speed st 20mbps looks like heaven now compared to umobile no cap.

This post has been edited by Ngto: Feb 9 2024, 11:07 PM

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Price announcement in early March. 2 options.

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Like that YES 99/- with modem can close shop.

Umobile now same thing for only 68/-

YES (no router) = 58/-
Umobile (with router) = 68/-

These 5G routers can be very directional . I stay at the 6 floor of my apartment in KV. I can get full signal, (probably some towers nearby), but my speed fluctuating throughout the day. Sometimes 300+Mbps one moment , then 30-50mbps the next. Tried out some old 4g antenna from my old modem router didn't do anything .

Finally I installed the Open signal app on my phone and followed the signal direction of my modem connection. I turned the modem back side (where the empty antenna ports are located) towards the tower direction, now can constantly get stable signal 300-400 Mbps. Every once in a while early in the morning can get 500mbps.

This post has been edited by Ngto: Mar 16 2024, 06:34 AM

Umobile can't torrent I think. Need VPN but VPN speed suffers.

Luckily I have YES , can torrent..

The other sims you tried are prepaid ?

From personal experience only. If I use YES in router, test with uTorrent in Android 7 Media player without VPN, healthy download, only around 20mbps . If use VPN , also about the same speed

But for practical purposes without VPN, I using different way of Torrenting YES.on the same Android Media player. Don't want to mention here. This method for the same torrent, I can get close to 100 mbps at it's peak. But fluctuate up and down, average out at 50-70 mbps.

This post has been edited by Ngto: Mar 17 2024, 01:53 PM

Anyone tried torrenting with a VPN using U home 5G ? Are the speeds decent ?

What's your typical torrent speed with VPN ?

Why do you need hotspot bypass for uhome 5G ?

Earlier you mentioned you wanted to buy uhome plan. I replied based on that assumption.

AW1000 already can bypass hotspot FT5G prepaid sim. Can torrent also.

But from experience, after a while they cap your speed if they detect you are using too much data for a mobile plan..

This post has been edited by Ngto: Apr 16 2024, 10:37 AM

From the beginning already can bypass YES. But things are very volatile. YES could be just keeping eyes closed for now .Waiting to get a sizeable market share before enforcing stricter controls.

From experience, the speed will suddenly fluctuate from Max speed to below 50mbps, especially after doing a few speed tests from various devices or after downloading a file via torrenting . When the speed comes back to normal ? , anybody's guess

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Update

I discovered the speed drop wasn't due to the reasons I stated above.It was due to the USB fan I bought from Shopee last month which I placed under the router. This elevated the height of the router by 2" and somewhat caused stability issues in the signal although the signal strength showed 100%.


This post has been edited by Ngto: Apr 18 2024, 06:07 AM

Placement of modem and direction of internal antenna to tower can make a big difference.

Using Arc...1000. Can unlimited hotspot FT5G, 25/-. Getting about 400mbps at my place. Problem with YES sim and this router is it get disconnected without internet now and then .Have to press the reboot button.

On one of the months, I reached almost 1tb usage. YES can also do torr..nting.

Only yesterday my YES prepaid sim stopped working with this router. May they ban or something. Maybe have to switch to Uhome..

Done all that even before you suggested. Can work in phone.. They probably detected this is hotspot modded modem or something.

Or they follow Umobile, when put prepaid sim in modem immediately disable from working. But I don't think that's the case. because when I put it in my old non-modded 4G modem , it can use the 4G data with hotspot running of course. This Yes only give 12gb hotspot, so this is just a temp solution until I figure out what is happening .

This post has been edited by Ngto: Oct 7 2024, 08:22 PM

I already tried 4 different 5G phone IME before. No go.

As for Umobile, last time tried their prepaid, even use phone IMEI in the Router, no signal.