LeeWillRockYou
Pro Member
I'm unsure if I've used the correct word in "mast" here. But I'm wondering what I would need to build an 4g antenna that lives on top of a pole, overlooking the roofs between my house and the broadcasting mast?
I live on the edge of a small town, in a bungalow behind several bigger houses, below road level. My 4g speeds average around 10mbps. I've tried every location in my house and even invested in an external aerial. Nothing has worked.
Yesterday, I went for a walk across the field next to my house, on a raised river bank and had direct sight of the mast in town. I did a speed test and consistently got 50mbps download speeds in that location, which I'll repeat was not a stone's throw away from my house.
After a year or two of wrestling with 4g speeds I simply submitted to the fact that I was possibly out of range to ever receive decent speeds.
But now my world has been turned upside down, to put it overdramatically!
I did several speed tests within the same area and got pretty much the same results, so it wasn't a fluke!
Now I'm wondering what the cost will be, to buy a large pole (ooh err), erect it in my garden, attach on top of it an antenna that also acts as a modem/router to run an ethernet cable to my house, as to avoid any signal loss.
It sounds like something beyond my skills but I'm intrigued to know exactly what it entails and if anyone here has done it themselves and what they have learned.
I live on the edge of a small town, in a bungalow behind several bigger houses, below road level. My 4g speeds average around 10mbps. I've tried every location in my house and even invested in an external aerial. Nothing has worked.
Yesterday, I went for a walk across the field next to my house, on a raised river bank and had direct sight of the mast in town. I did a speed test and consistently got 50mbps download speeds in that location, which I'll repeat was not a stone's throw away from my house.
After a year or two of wrestling with 4g speeds I simply submitted to the fact that I was possibly out of range to ever receive decent speeds.
But now my world has been turned upside down, to put it overdramatically!
I did several speed tests within the same area and got pretty much the same results, so it wasn't a fluke!
Now I'm wondering what the cost will be, to buy a large pole (ooh err), erect it in my garden, attach on top of it an antenna that also acts as a modem/router to run an ethernet cable to my house, as to avoid any signal loss.
It sounds like something beyond my skills but I'm intrigued to know exactly what it entails and if anyone here has done it themselves and what they have learned.























