GordonGPZ
Regular Member
I just signed up after finding this really useful forum and reading most of the messages last couple of days. It was great to realise there are others doing exactly the same as me. I have tried umpteen options with no massive improvements. I have tried all network providers. 3 /EE worst, Voda better and O2 slightly better again.
Cutting to the chase, I am looking for advice on what external router to choose. I am slightly in the sticks, 4.5 Km from the BT street furniture and Openreach predict max 6Mbps over fibre. No thanks. I already have a Yaecom external router powered via POE at the end of a 50m cable. It is mounted on a 25 foot pole on higher ground adjacent to my house. It will be 20 feet above my house. It does not do carrier aggregation. It has no provision to connect external antennas. My house is low down and surrounded by tall trees. At home inside we can pickup usable signal on both Vodafone and O2 and make calls. 4g works on the phones although at single digit speeds. Both EE and Three signals are just about present but calls fail all the time. I have 3 Band 20 Vodafone masts roughly equidistant and all less than a mile away. However the router constantly connects to one particular mast and the signal seems reasonably strong but signal to noise isn't brilliant maybe because of the other 2 band 20 masts? Currently RSRP -73dbm, RSRQ -13db, SINR approx 5 db. Another entry in the router says signal strength -79. When I run Speedtests I never get more than 10 mbps down although I used to. So DL 7.2, UL 9.4 ping 45ms. That is entirely expected. I should say that 2 of us can watch HD netflix and another be watching Amazon Prime and it works rather well considering. However I want to stop having to reboot the router/switch combo every day sometimes multiple times.
Going slightly off track I am wondering if they are managing me down to 10mbps now on my £32 per month Vodafone max contract.
If you haven't fallen asleep yet, I would like recommendations on an external 4g or 5G router with at least CA6 or better. EE 5G is supposed to be here but I don't see it on my Oneplus Nord 5G mobile. The router should have sockets to allow external antenna to be connected. It can be a router only (bridge) as a Ubiquity switch and wifi mesh is already in place in my loft space.
Another question, I'm thinking GiffGaff so I can try the O2 network but I'm worried they will throttle the speeds. My family burns through about 600Gb per month. My daughter doesn't even have a TV antenna as everything she watches is streamed and my son is the same.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and for any advice which will be gratefully received.
Thanks.
Gordon
Cutting to the chase, I am looking for advice on what external router to choose. I am slightly in the sticks, 4.5 Km from the BT street furniture and Openreach predict max 6Mbps over fibre. No thanks. I already have a Yaecom external router powered via POE at the end of a 50m cable. It is mounted on a 25 foot pole on higher ground adjacent to my house. It will be 20 feet above my house. It does not do carrier aggregation. It has no provision to connect external antennas. My house is low down and surrounded by tall trees. At home inside we can pickup usable signal on both Vodafone and O2 and make calls. 4g works on the phones although at single digit speeds. Both EE and Three signals are just about present but calls fail all the time. I have 3 Band 20 Vodafone masts roughly equidistant and all less than a mile away. However the router constantly connects to one particular mast and the signal seems reasonably strong but signal to noise isn't brilliant maybe because of the other 2 band 20 masts? Currently RSRP -73dbm, RSRQ -13db, SINR approx 5 db. Another entry in the router says signal strength -79. When I run Speedtests I never get more than 10 mbps down although I used to. So DL 7.2, UL 9.4 ping 45ms. That is entirely expected. I should say that 2 of us can watch HD netflix and another be watching Amazon Prime and it works rather well considering. However I want to stop having to reboot the router/switch combo every day sometimes multiple times.
Going slightly off track I am wondering if they are managing me down to 10mbps now on my £32 per month Vodafone max contract.
If you haven't fallen asleep yet, I would like recommendations on an external 4g or 5G router with at least CA6 or better. EE 5G is supposed to be here but I don't see it on my Oneplus Nord 5G mobile. The router should have sockets to allow external antenna to be connected. It can be a router only (bridge) as a Ubiquity switch and wifi mesh is already in place in my loft space.
Another question, I'm thinking GiffGaff so I can try the O2 network but I'm worried they will throttle the speeds. My family burns through about 600Gb per month. My daughter doesn't even have a TV antenna as everything she watches is streamed and my son is the same.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and for any advice which will be gratefully received.
Thanks.
Gordon