GooseMan
Casual Member
Greetings All!
Firstly, some context.. I live on a Private Road in a Relatively Small Town in the Midlands, and we have been with BT for Broadband and Landline for as Long as I can remember, I can safely say, we have never experienced any issues with BT, they've always been reliable, minimal downtime, you name it. But the issue is, because we are on a private (and not Council Maintained) Road, our Internet is, and will continue to be, stuck in the Dark Ages, that being, DSL Phone Line - Splits in a Box at our Incoming, one to the Landline, and a 2-Core Cable going to our Router.
We get Consistently Average Speeds of ~24Mbit Down/5Mbit Up (only ever goes up to ~28 Down under perfect conditions, but not for long), so as a 23 Year old Nerd I've began to explore other avenues... That being Cellular Internet!
On its own, my 5G router can pull some pretty respectable speeds given my circumstances, but I've got a TPLink X50-5G Router, and a Poynting XPOL-1 V2 5G (Omni Directional) Antenna hooked up to it. I can consistently pull 30Mbit Down/10Mbit Up with the current setup, which is not quite light speed but I'll take the increase over our hardwired connection.
But here is my actual issue; I live smack bang between 2 Cell Towers, but have absolutely ZERO Line of Sight to either tower, both are *not quite* at the top of the 2 Hills that my town sits between, and both Towers are *just* on the other side of said hills, as they are designed to serve the wide area of towns and villages scattered around, and not my town perched between the 2. The Entire town suffers from zero-two bars of cell signal at a push. While I am learning more as each day goes by, I figured why not state my issue directly and see what the wizards on here have to say about it
I've done some tinkering around with CellMapper, Cell Locking, Choosing Specific Bands, etc, but no combination has really beaten the "Auto" Setting. I should state, the antenna is mounted in my attic currently, in the best possible position I could find after ~4 Hours of walking around up there trying not to come through the ceiling.
So, is there anything I can do to improve my speeds here? Perhaps a "more powerful" antenna? It is my understanding that my circumstance warrants an omni directional as opposed to a uni directional due to no LOS to the Tower? Or should I come to terms with it and just be happy with what I've got?
Thank you all for reading my wall of text! Let me know if you need any more information
(Unlimited & Uncapped EE SIM)
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Firstly, some context.. I live on a Private Road in a Relatively Small Town in the Midlands, and we have been with BT for Broadband and Landline for as Long as I can remember, I can safely say, we have never experienced any issues with BT, they've always been reliable, minimal downtime, you name it. But the issue is, because we are on a private (and not Council Maintained) Road, our Internet is, and will continue to be, stuck in the Dark Ages, that being, DSL Phone Line - Splits in a Box at our Incoming, one to the Landline, and a 2-Core Cable going to our Router.
We get Consistently Average Speeds of ~24Mbit Down/5Mbit Up (only ever goes up to ~28 Down under perfect conditions, but not for long), so as a 23 Year old Nerd I've began to explore other avenues... That being Cellular Internet!
On its own, my 5G router can pull some pretty respectable speeds given my circumstances, but I've got a TPLink X50-5G Router, and a Poynting XPOL-1 V2 5G (Omni Directional) Antenna hooked up to it. I can consistently pull 30Mbit Down/10Mbit Up with the current setup, which is not quite light speed but I'll take the increase over our hardwired connection.
But here is my actual issue; I live smack bang between 2 Cell Towers, but have absolutely ZERO Line of Sight to either tower, both are *not quite* at the top of the 2 Hills that my town sits between, and both Towers are *just* on the other side of said hills, as they are designed to serve the wide area of towns and villages scattered around, and not my town perched between the 2. The Entire town suffers from zero-two bars of cell signal at a push. While I am learning more as each day goes by, I figured why not state my issue directly and see what the wizards on here have to say about it
I've done some tinkering around with CellMapper, Cell Locking, Choosing Specific Bands, etc, but no combination has really beaten the "Auto" Setting. I should state, the antenna is mounted in my attic currently, in the best possible position I could find after ~4 Hours of walking around up there trying not to come through the ceiling.
So, is there anything I can do to improve my speeds here? Perhaps a "more powerful" antenna? It is my understanding that my circumstance warrants an omni directional as opposed to a uni directional due to no LOS to the Tower? Or should I come to terms with it and just be happy with what I've got?
Thank you all for reading my wall of text! Let me know if you need any more information
(Unlimited & Uncapped EE SIM)
Readout from Deco App;























