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EE SIM card in Draytek Vigor 2862 issue

Joe.H

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Hi,
I have a EE SIM card installed in a Draytek 2862 router but for some reason keep on getting slow speeds 5mbs, however when I take my SIM out of the modem and put it in my phone—sure enough the speed goes back to the awesome 60+mbs. I Put the SIM back in the modem and now we are back to the fast speeds! Could all be coincidental but could it be that the provider is periodically checking that the card is in a phone and throttling if it isn’t?
 
Curious but I think you'd really need to look at the signal measurements and bands being used in order to understand everything that changes. Mobile phones actually have quite clever antennas for their size, but the Draytek is going to be different and small changes can result in all sorts of quirks - like the SIM switching to a different band or lower signal quality.

So you'd need to look at what measurements you get for signal quality on both and compare. Hopefully the router lets you see this and shows what band is being used. You'll probably need an app to see this on the phone, such as Cell Info Lite.
 
This is the spec for the Draytek

LTE
LTE Category4
Max. Data Rate150 Mbps downlink, 50 Mbps uplink
FDD Band1 (2100MHz), 3 (1800MHz), 7 (2600MHz), 8 (900MHz), 20 (800MHz)
TDD Band38 (2600MHz), 40 (2300MHz)
WCDMA (3G) Band1, 8
GSM/GPRS/EDGE Band900, 1800 MHz
So on top of what Mark has said vs antenna its only Cat 4 so will not use Carrier Aggregation even if the mast is enabled.
 
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