neelpeel
Casual Member
Hi all,
New here and looking for some advice.
I'm in rural Aberdeenshire (what3words: dumpy.floppy.octopus) and could be another couple of years before any form of FTTP gets to me.
I gave up on my fixed line internet (3Mbps down/0.5Mbps upload on a good day) earlier in the year and, after a bit of browsing, went with a 4G setup with a Poynting XPOL-A0001 4G antenna with a TP-Link MR6400.
Seemed reasonable at first - usually between 5-12Mbps and 1Mbps upload.
Main problem is consistency. I'm often getting dropouts during Teams calls and dropping to 1Mbps downloads. Something has to change.
The Poynting limitation is with the 5m cable length which means I have it mounted halfway up my wall outside with no LoS to a mast. I was fixing the TV aerial last week and I can see mast 526085 (only 1/2 mile away) from the chimney.
I think I have a couple of options...
- Get another LTE aerial, but probably a directional one, and stick it on a pole on the chimney breast. I should get LoS, but the cable length would be around 8m. I could reuse my router though.
- Get a Mikrotik SXT LTE6 ...that I keep reading about here
...and stick it on a pole on the chimney breast.
I'm not exactly a tech genius...If I go for the SXT LTE6 what is the cheapest way of getting a wifi signal that maybe 10-15 devices could use? Also, any recommendations on cables?
Would locating the 4G aerial/receiver near to my TV aerial cause any issues with 4G or TV signal?
Any limitations on the mast that I'm trying to get a signal from? I put my Vodaphone sim from my router into my phone and when up at the chimney breast I was getting -90Db RSSI using Mastdata (no idea if that is any good or not). But Cellmapper shows the Vodaphone signal as missing me I think (I am at 'X')...
All thoughts / advice welcome!
New here and looking for some advice.
I'm in rural Aberdeenshire (what3words: dumpy.floppy.octopus) and could be another couple of years before any form of FTTP gets to me.
I gave up on my fixed line internet (3Mbps down/0.5Mbps upload on a good day) earlier in the year and, after a bit of browsing, went with a 4G setup with a Poynting XPOL-A0001 4G antenna with a TP-Link MR6400.
Seemed reasonable at first - usually between 5-12Mbps and 1Mbps upload.
Main problem is consistency. I'm often getting dropouts during Teams calls and dropping to 1Mbps downloads. Something has to change.
The Poynting limitation is with the 5m cable length which means I have it mounted halfway up my wall outside with no LoS to a mast. I was fixing the TV aerial last week and I can see mast 526085 (only 1/2 mile away) from the chimney.
I think I have a couple of options...
- Get another LTE aerial, but probably a directional one, and stick it on a pole on the chimney breast. I should get LoS, but the cable length would be around 8m. I could reuse my router though.
- Get a Mikrotik SXT LTE6 ...that I keep reading about here
I'm not exactly a tech genius...If I go for the SXT LTE6 what is the cheapest way of getting a wifi signal that maybe 10-15 devices could use? Also, any recommendations on cables?
Would locating the 4G aerial/receiver near to my TV aerial cause any issues with 4G or TV signal?
Any limitations on the mast that I'm trying to get a signal from? I put my Vodaphone sim from my router into my phone and when up at the chimney breast I was getting -90Db RSSI using Mastdata (no idea if that is any good or not). But Cellmapper shows the Vodaphone signal as missing me I think (I am at 'X')...
All thoughts / advice welcome!























