Although it is better than the 0-1 bars of unreliable 2100 signal from the nearest 3 mast, it does have its own issues, in my experience.
There is a slight, but noticeable delay on voice calls and I often find I end up talking over the other person and vice versa. I suspect this is because of it using consumer grade ADSL as backhaul to Three's core network as opposed to low latency fibre links / leased lines.
The other thing is that data through the homesignal box is very ropey. Often it doesn't work and when it does you get timeouts. Only when I leave the homesignal coverage and onto real coverage I start to get e-mail push notifications from Outlook and so on.
Before someone asks why would I want to use data through it, well the answer is ... believe it or not, not everyone has wi-fi. My network and router is wired.
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I had the delay problem but I also had calls breaking up if my broadband was being used heavily as well. This is because I only have a 1.8 Meg connection.
On some advice on this forum I changed my router for a Zyxel model that has QOS (quality of service) settings.
I set up a couple of QOS queues, one with high priority for the EE Signal Box and one with low priority for everything else.
The result is no broken calls (even if I max out the download and upload simultaneously) AND the delay has disappeared!
Result!
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I had the delay problem but I also had calls breaking up if my broadband was being used heavily as well. This is because I only have a 1.8 Meg connection.
On some advice on this forum I changed my router for a Zyxel model that has QOS (quality of service) settings.
I set up a couple of QOS queues, one with high priority for the EE Signal Box and one with low priority for everything else.
The result is no broken calls (even if I max out the download and upload simultaneously) AND the delay has disappeared!
Result!
Actually it's closer to 16Kbps (including overheads). The actual codec uses about ~12Kbps even in HD mode.