#Setting up vodafone mobile broadband portable
#Setting up vodafone mobile broadband plus
#Setting up vodafone mobile broadband mac

#Setting up vodafone mobile broadband plus

Vodafone offers a 4G and 5G contract plans, plus a pay as you go plan.

eir offers 4G and 5G broadband 12-month plans for at home and on the go.

Three offers a range of 4G and 5G broadband plans for 12 and 24 months.

Rural and remote areas of Ireland are less likely to get decent 4G and 5G coverage, but mobile networks are continuing to roll out across the country. Three, eir and Vodafone all provide 4G and 5G coverage in the cities and major towns across Ireland. Mobile broadband runs on the same kind of connection as your mobile phone, so if coverage is poor in your location, mobile broadband from the same provider could be slow or patchy. This is subject to change and depends on locality. The speed you get depends on your provider’s coverage of the 4G or 5G network and the strength of your signal.

#Setting up vodafone mobile broadband portable

Mobile Wi-Fi modem: Connect multiple devices to 4G or 5G via a portable modem/router.4G or 5G data SIM card: Insert into your laptop or tablet for internet access on the go.USB Dongle: Plugs into the USB port of your desktop or laptop.There are several ways to connect your devices to a mobile network, but most providers offer a modem if you sign up for a contract. This allows you to get internet access on multiple devices at home or on the move. You don’t need a landline, fibre connection or satellite dish, instead, a portable device picks up 4G or 5G signals and emits Wi-Fi. Mobile broadband connects you to the internet using a 4G or 5G mobile phone network. Broadband product availability is subject to location.

Where a provider has not given an 'up to, average speed or absolute' speed, the maximum possible speed for the advertised plan is displayed.

The 'Speed (absolute)' displayed represents speed available to customers for the advertised plan. The 'Speed (up to)' displayed represents the speed available to at least 80% of customers. Thanks so much for your help, advice and knowledge.* The 'Speed (average)' displayed represents the speed available to at least 50% of customers. As well, these routers support AC etc, which only the really expensive powerlines can do. No more dodgy WIFI around the house! And a cheaper solution than buying lots of wifi powerlines, considering I have ethernet powerlines already. Although moving it onto powerlines once setup, it still works This time i started with direct ethernet. The other thing, is i origionally tried to set it up over powerlines then moved to direct ethernet. Maybe that had confused me on my origional setup, if i wasnt getting though to config pages. I have confirmed the router is 192.168.1.3 but i cannot actually get onto its router page anymore. As i was origionally assigned it when i connected to the router. Typing in 192.168.1.3 on my laptop currently, brings up my own Laptop web page. Im not entirely sure how i messed up the other one. NOTE: Main router needs DCHP set to a range that Excludes the IP address of the extra router. Gave it a while, then turned it off and back on. (incase its helpful to anyone else, below is what i did) I followed your instructions and kept it as simple as possible. The second one arrived today, so i just set this one up instead. I bought two vodafone routers, so that I would have 2 access points. I think it is me that missed something completely obvious. If it's feasible you may even want to consider having one router set up for just 'N' WiFi and the other as 'B/G/N' on the 2.4GHz and one as 'AC' and the other as 'A/N' on the 5GHz.

#Setting up vodafone mobile broadband mac

Once it's all set up you can even do a bit of load balancing either using the per router SSIDs or if you go for just a single SSID by using MAC filtering. If the devices you are using are stationary they may just log on to the strongest signal anyhow (so you could in that scenario just use a single SSID for everything). The reason being that while the supplied router is an unmittigated disaster, it's actually not bad at automatically assigning clients to best WiFi band! However, your access point is not going to automatically be handing over clients on the fly! So pick a variant SSID for the Access Point (but no need to split the SSIDs by band on the Access Point IMHO). Now you may have seen me ranting against 'splitting the SSIDs' as being used by tech support as the answer to life the universe and everything. Once you've done that the remaining LAN ports on the second router will just act like a network hub, and you can set up the WiFi! Think of Router 1 as being in charge of the network, and so turn off the DHCP on router 2, let router one do al the work. You need to connect the second router to the first using an ethernet cable from a LAN port on router 1 to a LAN port on router 2.