5 hours and counting. this is becoming more than just an “inconvennience” now.
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Gateshead reporting in, down since about 6pm.
Know it’s a know issue, just want a winge and have two teenagers who’s lives have hit an Apocalypse
I’m in need of a recommendation for 4g /5g router if you have one?
My experience with Virgin Media no conection for 4 days . This was inconvenience
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Depending on your budget i use the below, i use it as a 4G router only as a backup and its a pretty solid unit. I run my primary router with quad interfaces. My primary router has failover detection setup (pings 8.8.8.8s so if the Yayzi line drops 7 pings consecutively it will fail over to the 4G router and failback to Yayzi automatically once it comes back up)
TP-Link MR600 (v3) 4G+ Cat6 LTE Dual Band Gigabit Router with Unlimited O2 Data SIM Card Bundle https://amzn.eu/d/41Fc8Yl
Accepts all sim providers.
You could even use it to replace the Yayzi supplied router all together as it can do WAN dhcp tagging over ethernet, has a sim slot and will handle the failover all in the single unit. Only downside is the 1GB interfaces, so if you are on over a 1GB+ package you will be limited to around 930mbps on both wan and lan
Theres cheaper and way more expensive options around. But i wouldn’t spend silly money on 4G backup routers unless its mission critical.
I use ZTE mu5001 at work 5g modem plugged into a Wi-Fi router. 5 Pc are easily running with decent speeds at Vodafone
Thanks for the replies, I’m currently with Voxi and using a hotspot on my phone to access internet.I will look into these both.
Voxi runs on Vodafone so should get decent max speeds if the signal is good .
I have to set it up at home with my pfsense.
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I’m also using pfsense, so was wondering how that would work.
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Exactly like Lee explained, set this as a failover.There are plenty of tutorials on YT : https://youtu.be/acDvlzmsnaE?si=qF6yczShDMplMDST
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Current speed i’m getting on the 4g backup router. I run Opnsense as my primary router. Pfsense would be a similar configuration setup as opnsense. Just a different interface and knowing where to do the config.
I still have my VM connection going through Opnsense so not really a problem at the moment. I shall have to get rid of one of these services when the VM contract runs out though.
better than mine on my phone, but I am in an old building and no 5G coverage near me 
I get about 20 down and 1 up 
My Virgin media contract ended 2 days ago, that was acting as the failover while i was still in contract with VM and running Yayzi at the same time, but good riddance to Virgin, those yearly price increases should be made illegal, if you sign up for a 2 year contract, the price should remain fixed for the period of it. 
Any updates on this please?
100 customers have just come back online in the first batch. I wouldn’t know the exact batch you’re in but you can expect to be back online shortly 
Agreed, but I have such a good deal with them even with the increase next month, it will be cheaper than Yayzi, and the price also includes the landline. However, VM upload is pants and latency is not great. Having said that though, it’s been pretty solid and due to size of the network, the peering is pretty good. So, even though the latency is a lot higher than on fiber, the actual experience whether it be browsing, gaming etc., seems on par and sometimes better on some sites, which doesn’t make much sense, but there you go! But yeah, those uploads…!
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So basically nothing changed . 100
Customers … lucky customer
We did say they would be in batches. We do them in 100 customers batches to ensure limited issues.