Yesterday I bought the TADAAM Leuven 5G offer as it seems to be a good deal: 149 € for 1 year of internet. We recently bought a house and are renovating the place. We have no internet there at the moment, so this could be the intermediate solution. But I was also curious about the speed and possibilities of this offer.
The information on the TADAAM website was not very well aligned: on the front page they say 50 Mbps (download speed?) and that you can watch tv on 3 devices but on the order page is stated only 1 device and when you click on the TADAAM Contract Summary it shows the detail about the 40€/month subscription: 40 Mbps and 1 device. They don’t mention anything about the upload speeds.
So, today bpost delivered my TADAAM package, 24 hours after ordering:
Inside there was another box with the pre-configured 5G-router: the ZTE MC801A and a power cable. When I plugged in the router, everything went very smooth. No setup necessary what so ever!
Connecting to the router was easy with an ethernet-cable, surfing to 192.168.0.1 and entering the password which is presented on the bottom of the router.
As you can see from the screenshot the router was connected to the 5G-network of BASE/TELENET. The first thing I did was a speed test:
When the speedtest began the download speed was +150Mbps but dropped almost instantly to 50Mbps. This indicates that the speed is indeed capped at 50Mbps (as advertised).
Upload speed is very decent at around 30 Mpbs and latency of 19ms is almost as good as a landline. Although I expected for a 5G-connection a faster ping and maybe not capped speeds to test the full potential.
This afternoon I spend some time on the internet with the TADAAM router and everything went very fast and smooth, although I don’t know why they are advertising this as 5G: the same speeds can be achieved with LTE/4G. Maybe in rush hours the 5G will have it use and keep the advertised speeds?
The TV-app of TADAAM works flawlessly on my android phone with around 30 channels. Too bad you can not watch TV on your computer through a website.
Conclusion: very good value! Less than 15€/month for 50Mbps is unseen in Belgium but the TADAAM website indicates that we (people from Leuven) are the test audience, so I expected something more! I will report back when I have used this router longer and in other places.