Silver Dinky
Casual Member
Hi All,
We've just moved house and it's likely that we won't be staying here for more than 6-9 months so I didn't want to sign up for a fibre ISP contract. Instead I thought I would go down the mobile broadband route and I've acquired a Teltonika RUTXR1 router and a Talk Mobile unlimited data sim. I'm pretty tech savvy but this is my first time using mobile data as the household broadband so I'm still learning.
I am located about 1.5 kilometres from my nearest tower, I have clear LoS to it and get a reasonable strength signal just using the supplied antennas but my speeds are a mediocre 12mbps down and 1.5mbps up.
My router is a cat 6 4G that should be capable of up to 300mbps and while I don't know if I can get anywhere near that speed I do think that I can do better.
I've been looking at different types of antennas to try and help increase my speeds. We will likely be moving again soon so I don't want to mount an antenna somewhere hard to reach or difficult to install/remove as I'll likely want to take it with me when we move again. I also don't want a large unsightly antenna mounted on the front of the house.
I've looked at the Poynting XPOL and BlueSpot antennas which I could probably mount outdoors and run a 5m cable to the router. Alternatively I thought that I could mount something like this Nedis antenna in the loft (the router is in the loft anyway) and use much shorter cables to the router minimising signal loss in the cable. I could probably get away with 0.5m or 1m cable. Which approach would likely give the best results?
Are there any alternative approaches that I could try to improve my speeds? I don't need super fast speeds but at the moment I get buffering if 2 or 3 people in the house are streaming TV etc.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
We've just moved house and it's likely that we won't be staying here for more than 6-9 months so I didn't want to sign up for a fibre ISP contract. Instead I thought I would go down the mobile broadband route and I've acquired a Teltonika RUTXR1 router and a Talk Mobile unlimited data sim. I'm pretty tech savvy but this is my first time using mobile data as the household broadband so I'm still learning.
I am located about 1.5 kilometres from my nearest tower, I have clear LoS to it and get a reasonable strength signal just using the supplied antennas but my speeds are a mediocre 12mbps down and 1.5mbps up.
My router is a cat 6 4G that should be capable of up to 300mbps and while I don't know if I can get anywhere near that speed I do think that I can do better.
I've been looking at different types of antennas to try and help increase my speeds. We will likely be moving again soon so I don't want to mount an antenna somewhere hard to reach or difficult to install/remove as I'll likely want to take it with me when we move again. I also don't want a large unsightly antenna mounted on the front of the house.
I've looked at the Poynting XPOL and BlueSpot antennas which I could probably mount outdoors and run a 5m cable to the router. Alternatively I thought that I could mount something like this Nedis antenna in the loft (the router is in the loft anyway) and use much shorter cables to the router minimising signal loss in the cable. I could probably get away with 0.5m or 1m cable. Which approach would likely give the best results?
Are there any alternative approaches that I could try to improve my speeds? I don't need super fast speeds but at the moment I get buffering if 2 or 3 people in the house are streaming TV etc.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.























