![]() ![]() ![]() With you being so close to your mast and getting good/great metrics I don't see the need of an external antenna. In my opinion the main reason for considering an external antenna would be if your building was constructed of such a material that it blocks a lot of signal (thick sandstone walls etc). The external antenna you have is omni directional, as such it picks up signal from all directions and any gain it provides boosts both the signal you want, and signal you don't want (noise/interference).Īlso be aware the antenna gain might be counteracted by the signal loss of the cable and resulting in lower signal levels. I wonder if anyone can help shed some light on this? Do The better upload speeds suggest cell congestion?įirstly, are you connecting to the same mast, cell and then frequency with both readings? The router should report the CELL_ID value that should be enough to deduce if its the same or different. I'm flummoxed as to how the smaller paddles get a better connection. The cell tower according to Cell Mapper is about 200 meters away, however this is the opposite side to our property. I've taken the router of bridge mode incase this might affect things. With the paddles I get about 20Mbps down and 1Mbps up. The odd thing is, when I swap out the XPOL with some 9dBi paddles, I get much better SINR: I'm now getting around 5 - 8Mbps down and 20Mbps up. This was partly due to Three working in the area (which apparently has now stopped without much improvement) I purchased the Poynting 4G-XPOL-A0001 as have placed it around 10ft up on a first floor terrace (so around 25ft all in).įor some reason, I can't seem to get decent SINR numbers, despite the RSRQ/RSRP being okay. I decided to get an outdoor antenna as our speeds had dropped quite a lot (from around 25mbps to 8mbps). I have been running a 4G set up with Three for a while, firstly with a B315 with paddles and more recently a B525s-23a in bridge mode as I'm also using an Eero mesh set up. First time poster so hello! This is a bit long winded, but I hope someone might have some ideas.
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