Am I an early adopter? Three 5G home broadband

My contacts with Virgin only has a short time to run and with the annual increase, it's no just over £40 a month for broadband only. Admittedly, I get around 350 Mb/s downloads, but that figure for me is certainly a flinch point, so I started looking around.

There are a lot of deals out there and quite by accident, I tripped over this one from 3. Minimum download of 150 Mb/s unlimited data, no setup cost, free delivery of the router and for £11 a month (though I will hit an annual price increase in April/May but thats £2.50), it still beats Virgin.

The gizmo arrived on time on Friday afternoon and the SIM was pre -installed. Took me about 10 minutes to get it working, the main hurdle was reading the small print on the bottom of the device for the passwords. I sortedd that by taking a photo and putting it up on the laptop screen.

I had to call tech support once, because it fails to tell you in the instructions that you have to activate the account. Ten minutes after the call to a very savvy and polite Indian support man and the red not connected beacon turned white and I was away.

My first speedtest exceeded expectations giving 350 Mb/s which to date, all has been great. I just tested the speed again on a Sunday morning and saw a blistering 600 Mb/s.

We have strong 5G coverage in this town, in fact there's a mast right opposite my block, though wether that belongs to 3 I don't know.

The router has 2 ethernet ports which will be used for my NAS drives. I will run it alongside the Virgin router until that contract ceases.

I wasn't really aware of these routers with a 5G sim inside, let along the price per month. It does appear to be revolutionary and possibly a game changer, for those with decent 4 and 5G coverage at least.