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

I just noticed cellmapper don’t have app for iOS. I need to get an android phone to test out

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.

Oh I see. The RSRP -80ish is actually quite rare, but maybe I not yet buy the weekly plan so the phone actually keep showing 4G+ instead of 5G eventhough my phone enable 5G. Will carry out the test again.

Hahahaha, no wonder la. Okok will carry out the test again after buy the weekly plan.

Thanks both of u again 🙏🙏

I just bought the plan, 5G activated on my iPhone 12 Pro, tested the signal around my apartment via fast.com, got speed ranging from 360Mbps to 450Mbps.

For me, anything above 100Mbps is good enough for my parents' use case.

I open cellmapper webpage via the phone browser, go to Provider>U mobile>4G LTE

I found got 2 towers (8xxxxx) with band 1,3,7 on my apartment. Not sure if this make any sense to the 5G signal.

Anyway guys, seems like I can go apply for the U Home 5G right?

This post has been edited by waikit1985: Mar 27 2024, 05:51 PM

oh I see... now i know what you mean earlier.

Just done checking, I got a 7xxxxx tower with green band 28, 40* just less than 100m from my house.

I guess that explain the stable signal.

Hi, I just got my ZTE MC888S and u mobile 5g sim. Started using it, plug and play very easy.

Anyone here could guide me how to lock tower for this modem? thanks ya

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.

Thanks 🙏

I checked boxes band 28 for 4g,
band 28 and 78 for 5g.

So far speed has been great.

However, I noticed that I was unable to connect to the router / suddenly disconnected from the router occasionally everyday.

The same issue happened on all my devices that were connected to the same wifi/router. Reconnecting was not successful, until I restart the router then only my devices were able to detect and connect to the router.

Anyone experience this before and what's the solution available? Thanks

This post has been edited by waikit1985: Apr 8 2024, 03:16 PM

I stay beside a 5G signal tower (about 100m distance).
Signal strength is strong and speed is good but I kept disconnected from the router, the frequency of dc is quite random.

Sometimes 2-3 times in 30 minutes, sometimes no dc in few hours.

Not sure why, hopefully is my setting problem so that I can adjust it, otherwise I also dont know what to do.

I just change my setting as follows:-

Connection settings:
1. Connection mode: Automatic

2. Network selection: 5G NSA

3. APN: unchanged


Advanced setting > Options > Developer options:
1. Band selection:
4G: checked Band 28 only

2. NR5G Band Lock: checked Band 28 & Band 78.

3. 5G Cell lock: nothing was filled in the blank

===================================================

Before I change the Network selection to 5G NSA, I was using 5G/4G (the default setting), NR5G band lock I checked Band 28 and Band 78 both, internet speed could go up to 620Mbps.

After that I change to 5G NSA, NR5G band lock I checked only Band 28, internet speed only go up to 70Mbps. (several tests done via fast.com)

Not sure if the NR5G band lock of band 78 makes the speed difference and also change to 5G NSA only could reduce the disconnecting issue.

Anyone has any thoughts on my setting? Or mind to share your setting because mine might got mistake that I don't know lol. Just got the router for 2 days.
What I am looking for is a stable internet connection with speed maybe up to 200Mbps, as long as don't dc so frequent.

This post has been edited by waikit1985: Apr 8 2024, 04:37 PM

Alright, thanks for letting me know, will contact umobile after this festive season, probably next week.

I try to update the firmware through the router, but it shows that the current one is the latest one.

ya quite bad actually the user experience so far.

dc happening quite frequent now.. is like every 30 mins will dc once.

once the router dc, the WiFi might or might not restart itself, have to manually switch off and on the device and waited like 1 min only the WiFi SSID will reappear again.

Quite troublesome.. I wonder how is the process, need to bring the device back to Berjaya Times Square HQ ourselves?

Same here, the only solution is to reboot the modem manually, once it's done, the SSID will appear in less than a minute.

Otherwise if you let it reboot itself, SSID will not appear nor the internet will be connected.