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    Vodafone Deutschland: GigaCube vs. normale 5G-Mobil-SIM für das Heim-Internet?

    Hallo zusammen,

    Ich plane, einen 5G-Router für mein Heim-Internet in Deutschland zu verwenden. Ich schaue mir zwei Optionen von Vodafone an, bin aber etwas verwirrt über den Preisunterschied.

    1. Vodafone GigaCube: Ein spezielles Heim-Internetprodukt, das einen 5G-Router enthält.

    2. Normale 5G-Mobilfunk-SIM: Eine Standard-Smartphone-SIM-Karte (mit Anrufen/SMS-Funktion), die ich einfach an meinen eigenen 5G-Router anschließen würde.

    Beide bieten 5G-Geschwindigkeiten und erfordern einen 24-Monats-Vertrag, aber die reguläre 5G-SIM-Karte ist etwas günstiger als der GigaCube-Plan (ohne die anfänglichen GigaCube-Rabatte).

    Gibt es besondere technische oder vertragliche Einschränkungen bei der Nutzung einer herkömmlichen mobilen SIM-Karte für das Internet zu Hause? Da die mobile SIM-Karte trotz mehr Funktionen (Anrufe/SMS) günstiger ist, vermute ich, dass es einen Haken geben könnte – wie Datendrosselung, niedrigere Netzwerkpriorität usw "Faire Nutzungsrichtlinien" das gilt nicht für den GigaCube.

    Hat jemand versucht, eine normale Vodafone 5G-SIM-Karte in einem stationären Router zu verwenden? Ich würde mich über jeden Einblick freuen!

    https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1qof70e

    Von haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

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    1. Baalii on

      Look at telekom hybrid contracts, can end up cheaper and you get the low latency/reliability of a wired connection on top.

    2. Phrovo on

      I’m not expert at all, but the first thing that came to mind for me was that the Gigacube is a router, so you have LAN and can easily connect multiple devices to the internet via Wlan, while having a sim card would restrict you to one device (except you always put up a hotspot with your phone or something like that)

    4. Kraylast on

      ~~The regular SIM card is not unlimited. You get 123 GB „fair use“ and then have to pay 0.13 cents/MB. Didn’t find anything like that in the GigaCube one.~~

      [https://www.vodafone.de/media/downloads/pdf/vf-gigacube-zuhause-unlimited-Oktober-2025_20250908.pdf](https://www.vodafone.de/media/downloads/pdf/vf-gigacube-zuhause-unlimited-Oktober-2025_20250908.pdf)

      [https://www.vodafone.de/media/downloads/pdf/VF-gigamobil-XL-dezember-2025.pdf](https://www.vodafone.de/media/downloads/pdf/VF-gigamobil-XL-dezember-2025.pdf)

    5. bitsystem on

      I don’t know your reason for doing this, but I am doing the exact same because I think internet prices are absurd here and I can’t believe we have to rent their routers.

      My advantage is that I qualify for a young discount, so having that in mind I’m using Telekom instead of Vodafone, (I was using O2 prior to that but 5G coverage is a joke, at least in my situation).

      With Telekom I have an unlimited data contract where I plug the sim into my own 5G router, and also they offer multisim at no additional cost, so me and my partner can use the same sime on our respective phones (even though that does not give us our own number) to access the same good coverage on the go.

      Tbh Telekom is a bit more expensive but in my short experience is proving to be worth every euro

    6. Wooden-Ad8389 on

      I did this almost 3 years ago, my recommendations:

      -Look for a unlimited sim card with a better price in check24, any sim card will work. The Freenet works as good as the vodafone ones (at least in my area). Im paying 35 Eur for unlimited data over the sim and I can cancel on a monthly basis instead of a 2 year contract!

      -Although it is mentioned that it is unlimited, it shows me that I have up to 1 TB per month, I have not been close to reach that so I cannot tell you what happens after.

      -About the router you can buy it from any brand, either used or new, you can make them all work with the sim card you get regardless of the satellite company.

      Good luck!

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