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Has anyone built their own mast?

I was thinking of something like this, do you think it'll need planning permission?

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Thanks for finding that. I had a look at my house again. I think I could go from my roof and use the TV aerial pole, that I no longer use for TV. I just have to clear a few more metres to see past next door.
It's a project for another time though, as I'm shielding and DIY is impossible when you can't just pop to a shop.

Thanks for your help and good luck with yours!
 
Out of interest, have you tried your router outside your house? Either held outside your window (a window facing the direction of the mast you're connected to), or even tried running a long electric reel extension down your garden (to get away from buildings/get a clearer LOS, if possible) and testing there?
 
Yes, I've got strange looks from the my neighbours as I've walked to each end of both my gardens with my router and extension cable in tow. The only thing I cant do is height. I've gone as high at the guttering on my bungalow but it's not made much difference.

----_^^^^^^^--------------- {} (mast)

If the middle line is the road and the pointy lines are the other houses, the lowest line is my house.
 
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I think some of the trees are part of the problem. I'm not very good at climbing trees anyway and I don't know how good cherry blossoms for climbing 😬
 
I was thinking of something like this, do you think it'll need planning permission?

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Ah.. so you've gone with a cross-polarised omni directional antenna. Only problem with that one is it's limited to the 700MHz band, so the speed isn't great but it can exert quite an influence over range :LOL:. Also, make sure to lock the bloody cave at the bottom, otherwise you'll get anti-5G nutters from the shire coming inside to try and destroy it. Some sort of protection against large birds may also be a necessity.
 
I bought a Poynting 4G-XPOL-A0001 last year and it never worked with Three and hasn't been used since.

I've now got a good signal with VOXI (Vodafone) but only outside my house, with my phone I seem to be getting 30-60mbps.
So I'm trying this aerial again. I've got the feeling I have a dud though. A year too late for returns though I think?

I'm just wondering what will be inside if I open it up? If there's a loose joint that I could fix.

I had to actually sort out a problem with the Voxi SIM card and get it reactivated and after an hour on the chat with an advisor, I've lost the daylight. So I'm really just making this post to get ahead of my thoughts for tomorrow when I have another go at it.
 
Ah.. so you've gone with a cross-polarised omni directional antenna. Only problem with that one is it's limited to the 700MHz band, so the speed isn't great but it can exert quite an influence over range :LOL:. Also, make sure to lock the bloody cave at the bottom, otherwise you'll get anti-5G nutters from the shire coming inside to try and destroy it. Some sort of protection against large birds may also be a necessity.
Haha!
 
Lee, when you mentioned the routers you tried, you mentioned a Huawei b181. I assume you meant B818? The internal antennas and the modem chip itself its nearly as good as it gets for now, so im surprised to see you're getting the same speeds as an MR200?
 
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@LeeWillRockYou open it up, take some pics. I only opened up the v2 of it, just a couple of small pcb boards, but was ok.
 
Lee, when you mentioned the routers you tried, you mentioned a Huawei b181. I assume you meant B818? The internal antennas and the modem chip itself its nearly as good as it gets for now, so im surprised to see you're getting the same speeds as an MR200?
I'm not sure now you've mentioned it? But I bought these and used them for a few days but didn't notice an improvement, so returned due to its price tag.

Would it have made a much of a difference where there is generally only 1 mast, in 1 direction, with 1 or 2 bands too connect to? From what I understand, the benefit would be the switching to different bands to get the strongest connection. But with the lack of choice in my location, would their be an improvement?
 
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