Hi, just joined three a couple of weeks ago with the 5g ZTE hub. The router always connects to a band 3 4g lte mast nearest me about 500m away even though the signal is reported as "terrible" and usually around -115 - -118dbm. I get around 10-15mbps download and 1mbps upload. There are trees and a housing estate between the mast hence bad signal.
However sometimes when I reboot the router it connects to another mast about a mile away on high ground in line of sight and I get 4g+ at -95dbm and a steady 5g a bit weaker. I get speeds of 50mbps+ download and 15mbps upload.
Thing is it doesn't last more than half an hour then it reverts back to the mast near me which is basic 4g very weak signal and the 5g and 4g+ signals are not visible at all.
Rebooting usually doesn't help. Tried changing to three.co.uk APN and it picked up the 4g+ again but then reverts me back to 3internet and doesn't seem to let me change the APN anymore
Is there any way at all to select bands or mast? I'm guessing probably not
Do three software try and route to the nearest mast to the registered home address even if the signal is worse than other masts further away? Anything I can do to get it to find the 5g and 4g+ masts with a stronger signal again?
Thanks
