LeeWillRockYou
Pro Member
I'm on 3 mobile broadband and whilst it's worked relatively okay, I'm yearning to squeeze just a little bit more out of it. I've spent (wasted) quite a bit of money so far and want to sort this out once and for all! I see these forums and like what I see - hello!
Below are my current stats, they are sometimes better, sometimes worse as it is with mobile signals. I get about 10down / 8up on average. 18up+down on good days. Currently my router sits on my desk in the middle of my house and this tends to be the best place for it, which makes no sense at all but there you go.
I live on the edge of a small town, in a bungalow, behind a big house and our houses are slightly below road level, so yeah the mobile signal Gods aren't kind, however with 3 and Vodafone (on the mobile phone) the signal does work and we can stream HD videos easily, so can't complain too much.
I signed up to 3 in March 2019 and received the Huawei B311 and it was an awful router that constantly disconnected, so I bought a new one with the most I could budget, the Archer MR200. Seems a bit sturdier but didn't improve the signal/speed much and that bugged me, so after (little) research I went and bought one of those Poyang (spelling?) external antennas and could not find a better signal around my bungalow anywhere! I've come to see that this is a common problem. So I just gave up for awhile. But here I am again and the other day I decided to buy the Huawei B535 because I wanted to try 4G+ and I also have the HUACntrl app and I love the UI for the signal indicators, it makes much more sense seeing the bars raise up and down. It's been raining too much this week but when it's dry I can't wait to see if I can get somewhere with the external antenna whilst using this app.
Anyway, I suppose I need a question. What are your thoughts on my numbers below and seeing my RSRP number, is there any hope for me? I've looked at CellMapper but because I live in a small town, it's not really updated much.
Additional question, when 3 say that they are working on the signal in my area, how true is that and could it explain why it appears that I'm connecting to a cell/mast further away than the closest one I can see on the map?
RSSI: -81
RSRQ: -7
RSRP: -107
SINR: 4
Thanks for reading my ramblings.
Below are my current stats, they are sometimes better, sometimes worse as it is with mobile signals. I get about 10down / 8up on average. 18up+down on good days. Currently my router sits on my desk in the middle of my house and this tends to be the best place for it, which makes no sense at all but there you go.
I live on the edge of a small town, in a bungalow, behind a big house and our houses are slightly below road level, so yeah the mobile signal Gods aren't kind, however with 3 and Vodafone (on the mobile phone) the signal does work and we can stream HD videos easily, so can't complain too much.
I signed up to 3 in March 2019 and received the Huawei B311 and it was an awful router that constantly disconnected, so I bought a new one with the most I could budget, the Archer MR200. Seems a bit sturdier but didn't improve the signal/speed much and that bugged me, so after (little) research I went and bought one of those Poyang (spelling?) external antennas and could not find a better signal around my bungalow anywhere! I've come to see that this is a common problem. So I just gave up for awhile. But here I am again and the other day I decided to buy the Huawei B535 because I wanted to try 4G+ and I also have the HUACntrl app and I love the UI for the signal indicators, it makes much more sense seeing the bars raise up and down. It's been raining too much this week but when it's dry I can't wait to see if I can get somewhere with the external antenna whilst using this app.
Anyway, I suppose I need a question. What are your thoughts on my numbers below and seeing my RSRP number, is there any hope for me? I've looked at CellMapper but because I live in a small town, it's not really updated much.
Additional question, when 3 say that they are working on the signal in my area, how true is that and could it explain why it appears that I'm connecting to a cell/mast further away than the closest one I can see on the map?
RSSI: -81
RSRQ: -7
RSRP: -107
SINR: 4
Thanks for reading my ramblings.























