Stourbridge 5g rubbish

[Ssray]

Currently I'm getting just about 0.5 gig in 4g and 5g around Stourbridge, if I head up towards Ridgewood hi school I'm lucky to be able to use 4g , I have to switch to it to use it though, it won't even register on the broadband speed check.

 I had this same problem in Wolverhampton, it was solved eventually,it seems virgin were using Vodafone masts and they weren't set up correctly.

Any idea if anything can be checked here?

I get over 200gig at home using the same speed check 

Ta Ray 

[japitts]

Virgin Mobile is now a rebadging of O2 - you can check their status using https://status.o2.co.uk/ 

Home broadband is completely different technology to O2's mobile network

[enlli]

This is for Stourbridge 

 And according to the map there is weak 5G round the area of the Golf Club and none towards the town centre

 

[Ssray]

Thanks, I've got a phone for work that's ee, I keep forgetting to take it out and test side by side

[enlli · Accepted solution]

The problem with None Stand Alone 5G is that it requires 4G to work (bit of a simplification but true)

On Android the phone can display 5G but be running on the 4G element. It's easy to tell. If 5G is displayed in a clear box you are on the 4G element. 5G itself appears in a solid box 

[japitts]

There will always be localised differences, but on a national basis, O2 is the worst performing network for data - EE the best.

EE have a very strong underlying 4G network, 5G just adds to it.