How to use unlimited 5g as home broadband?

[Aakash Malhotra]

apologies if this has been asked before but I need help with using unlimited 5g as home broadband.

from what I have researched, using 5g sim routers is useless since jio will block the sim/router.

second is using a 5g phone as hotspot but I think there might be issues there?

1. the phone will obviously discharge battery so I will need to plug it into a charger.
2. as a hotspot it works fine but hotspot is wonky. sometimes the connection abruptly stops and I get 5g signal on the top floor of my house. So how do I feed it into my router so my parents at the ground floor can also use it?

if there is anyone who uses unlimited 5g as their home broadband, please share your setup. I have read threads where people are using their old 5g phone but I am not sure what all they use in their setup.

 

[Kyle Crane]

Man i dont like how i talked on this a few days ago elsewhere

 

[_rajat]

Get a 5G dongle with SD X55 modem.

 

[x86_64]

USB / Ethernet tethering by connecting phone with OpenWrt. Followed this guide. Make sure to configure MTU, TTL values accordingly.

I don't use it regularly but as a backup in case of fiber cuts.
Have not noticed any kind of bandwidth limits with Jio even with all IPv6 setup which is relatively easy to identify hotspot devices. But as I said my usage is limited to once or twice a month so your results with blocking or limts may vary.

 

[Aakash Malhotra]

@Kyle Crane in my defense, The only reason why I am thinking of doing it is because of extra speed. My usage is fairly low. At the moment, I pay like 900+ to airtel for a 100Mbps connection, while a 5g jio recharge costs me like 350-450.

 

[Aakash Malhotra]

@_rajat any suggestions? and is it known to work? will jio not ban the sim/modem?

 

[_rajat]

I have seen a couple of videos where it works with both Airtel and Jio. The dongle is very expensive tho, upwards of 6k. Better to downgrade your Airtel plan to 40 Mbps if you don't have a lot of usage. I am currently on the same plan, using it as a backup connection to TPF.

 

[Kyle Crane]

@Aakash Malhotra

What i could recommend is a phone which supports Bypass Charging so you dont have to keep the phone's battery at 100% at all times. And then USB C dongle for power supply to phone and to get Internet to router.

My concern would be the phone's battery swelling up due to overheating. Hence the minimum need of bypass charging.

Also how much speeds are you targeting? since most phones support USB 2.0 which maxes out at 480mbps, you would be bottle necked by that even if you have high speed 5G signals (if you are using it wired)

 

[Aakash Malhotra]

Don't have a specific speed target, just whatever the 5g gives me which is like 250-300Mbps. I was thinking of getting a usb c to usb c PD + Gigabit rj45 ethernet adapter from AliExpress.

setup will be like - phone usb c > this adapter > rj45 to my router and usb c PD into charger.

 

[jehunix]

I'm planning to get UniFi 5G Backup - Ubiquiti Store which is just for $99 next month! Gotta see how it works. If it works reliably enough - I will terminate my secondary Hathway connection.