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Do MTAO-LTE-5D-SQ external antennas degrade after a year!?

jamiemacbid

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Home set up in Kent is: Huawei B535 with EE and MTAO-LTE-5D-SQ external antenna
Holiday set up in Scotland is: Huawei B311-200 with Three and MTAO-LTE-5D-SQ external antenna.

Does anyone know whether the MTAO-LTE-5D-SQ external antennas degrade after a year or so? Both my home and holiday setups have quite independently suddenly stopped providing broadband access if the external antenna option was selected on the Huawei routers.

On my home set up I did a full reset on the B535 (back to factory settings) and I can now again get access to internet, but at worse speeds than the internal aerial option. When I first set it up at with the external aerial 12 months ago I got 22 ping with 50-70 down and 15-20 up..
 
It's not impossible water got into the casing and started corroding things. Cables are particularly vulnerable to water, once it gets in you can throw it away.
Try to get another antenna (different brand maybe) and see if this is indeed the problem.
 
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