Hello,

I came across this company recently, searching for a home internet provider.

[https://www.twifi.ch/en/home-internet-box/](https://www.twifi.ch/en/home-internet-box/)

The concept is simple enough, they use a 5G sim card and tap into the Salt or Sunrise 5G network, but through a plug in router. Hey presto, you get 5G speed in your home. As a bonus, its quite cheap (29 CHF a month for the 4G+ box, 300mps), and there’s no long term commitment.

It seems a little too good to be true – anyone here have any experience with them or anyone similar?

PS, based on recommendations, i’ll probably go for the Sunrise option.

14 comments

  2. If it’s the “4G+ box” for 29, are you sure that does 5G?

    From how I read it, only the 79.- version does 5G. Also be careful about marketing speech. 300 Mbps is 300 megaBITS. That’s 37.5 megaBYTES (1/8) – that’s not a bad speed, but it might not be what you expected.

  5. It’s not too far fetched tbh. Sometimes I use my phone via USB-Tethering for internet. Not only do I get faster downloads but also less ping.

  6. Hi yes I’ve been doing it for a while now. I got an extra SIM from my provider and it uses the same contact as my mobile. I just put the SIM in the router and use it for my home broadband. I bought the router off Alibaba though, for like CHF 200, do it’s not a separate contract. In terms of functionality, I wouldn’t say it’s better than a fiber connection but I do get decent speeds, and it supports everything I need it for (internet, streaming, VoIP etc). I just didn’t want a separate contract for my broadband you know?

  7. If you intend online gaming, dont take. The latency will drive you mad.
    Next thing is, where is the next antenna located? Whats the signal strenth on phone in these gsm networks? It never delivers what it promises (done some of the swisscom solutions but barely ever got over 50mbits.

  9. The major downsides I find are stability (depends on location and traffic at the moment) and ping which hinders significantly online play. Otherwise it’s fine, I have it in the office.

  10. You have that type of solution with other providers as well. Like yallo (sunrise network).
    And they have deals every now and then, that last for a few days. I can’t recall the price deal I saw the last time I was checking, could be the same.

  11. Well i just saw this on their website: “Name your child Twifia or Twifius and your family will surf the web 18 years for free. Just upload a photo of your child’s birth certificate issued by the register office. Upon verification you’ll have free internet from Twifi for 18 years.”

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    Late stage capitalism at its best.

  12. Downsides are, that the upload is slow and may have a high latency. Further, you don’t have the option of port forwarding without prior NAT-Punch-Through.

    Depending on the materials of the urban topography in your region, your signal can be bad, resulting in packet loss. This causes reduced available bandwidth as well as increased latency.

    When the antenna is under heavy use, your speed may be throttled. For example in the case of many people using the internet to send stuff. Regular examples are New Year’s greetings or street parade.

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    What does this means in reality:

    Gaming latency may be a thing, there may be weird effects you may notice like lag spikes if the topography changes (for example passing car changing the reflection of the signal, etc). You can just as well be lucky and experience no trouble at all.

    Using cloud storage services can take a bit longer to upload images/large files.

    When doing multiple upload things at the same time as VoIP and using a cloud storage service, your voice may be cracking a bit for the others.

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    If your use case is consuming internet services like video platforms and social media with a chance of downloading files, I don’t see any downside.

  13. Ihave it at home with a sunrise sim card. I didnt get the router they propose, i had my own and would rather stay away from huawei. Works fine for 2 people working from home, streaming, etc.

  14. Thanks for the link, didn’t know about twifi.ch and I bookmarked it for future reference.

    As I understand it, there are no 5G Sim cards per se. 5G has nothing to do with Sim cards. You will have to have a 5G mifi router for this to plug in your SIM card and to access 5G net and to work for your home, which are still pretty rare unfortunately.

    Since I terminated my landline (Festnetz), I have a Salt mobile surf unlimited Abo for 17.50 a month, works like a charm for all of my devices (TVs, laptops, smartphones, tablets) with their 4G Huawei mobile router E5576 that I got for free from Salt.

    Seriously, this little 4G mifi works just as fine through walls as the Fritzbox 7490 router did I had before that from Sunrise.

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