Sip
Pro Member
Hi
After a bit of a battle with 4g and my B525 router, I have now a fairly reasonable connection using Smarty. In a rural area, I get a ping of 35-45 (not brilliant) and an download of 50 -70Mbps and upload of 5-15Mbps from tower eNB11511-LTE.
In the next couple of weeks I will be moving 8 miles nearer the coast (Bridlington) and into a bungalow. On trying the Smarty sim in my phone during a viewing, my phone showed 3g only and fairly low up and downloads. I am not sure which tower it was connecting to, but on looking at Cellmapper, I can see that there are four towers, but only one (eNB4987) shows a footprint that covers my area, which only has bands 3 & 20. Current tower has 1,3 & 20. Could this by why I seem to have a poor connection?
Further to this, I know that I will need to get an outside aerial to connect to the router, as it is a bungalow and will have no direct line of sight to the tower. Could anyone recommend a type that may be suitable for me?
Also....would a B818 router be better than the B525?
Thanks in advance
Pip
After a bit of a battle with 4g and my B525 router, I have now a fairly reasonable connection using Smarty. In a rural area, I get a ping of 35-45 (not brilliant) and an download of 50 -70Mbps and upload of 5-15Mbps from tower eNB11511-LTE.
In the next couple of weeks I will be moving 8 miles nearer the coast (Bridlington) and into a bungalow. On trying the Smarty sim in my phone during a viewing, my phone showed 3g only and fairly low up and downloads. I am not sure which tower it was connecting to, but on looking at Cellmapper, I can see that there are four towers, but only one (eNB4987) shows a footprint that covers my area, which only has bands 3 & 20. Current tower has 1,3 & 20. Could this by why I seem to have a poor connection?
Further to this, I know that I will need to get an outside aerial to connect to the router, as it is a bungalow and will have no direct line of sight to the tower. Could anyone recommend a type that may be suitable for me?
Also....would a B818 router be better than the B525?
Thanks in advance
Pip
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