jagnew
Casual Member
Hey everyone, I'm after some advice. I've found this site super helpful the last six months but not really posted.
My wife and I bought our dream house in June this year which is semi-rural, its rural setting (4 acres) but very close (walking distance) to the market town of Stokesley. I admittedly did a poor job researching what internet was available to it, it showed as FTTC so I figured it would be useable. When I tried to move my FTTP package with BT over they said there no point as I'd be lucky to get over 3Mbps. So I quickly ordered Three sim with B535 to run a basic 4G setup. It's been less than ideal but it was always meant to be interim solution as I wanted to order FTTPoD. At the start of August I paid £16K for FTTPoD, 4 months in I got pretty disappointing update that not a lot has been done so I could be waiting a good while. At the same time storm Arwen done a lot of damage in our area and managed to make our Three 4G unusable - there network status tool reports issues but not really any information. I suspect its other towers are down so more users have ended up on the tower we use as speeds can vary so much, from 30Mbps to not beable to load a webpage.
Before I continue its probably worth noting Starlink is not available for me, it is about half mile up the road which is upsetting. It's listed as mid 2022 for me.
I've been working from home since COVID hit and probably need a better than average line due to my job, I'm a web developer. I've ended up the office more and more due the issues I'm having when ideally I'd work from home. And with a lot of my projects based in USA I need to be able to jump on to sort issues in the evenings. And with Boris announcement tonight I may not have any choice but to work from home soon.
So I decided throw some money at the problem even if its only for six months or so. I know from testing I can get reasonable 4G with Vodafone and suspect Three 4G issues will be resolved in the coming weeks. The plan is to run both Three and Vodafone to house, meaning I can use one network for general stuff like TVs etc. and another as work line (and a bit of online gaming). I've checked they come from different towers. I ordered two Huawei B818 modded for 4x4 MIMO external antennas from Router Mods. And I've order two Poynting OMNI-600 and two Poynting XPOL-2-5G V3. I believe I would have LoS to Three tower as its so close but not completely sure on Vodafone. My questions are:
1) If mounted on either end of the house, reasonable distance apart can actually have one on Three and other on Vodafone? or would they actually cause signal issues.
2) Would it be beneficial to mix Omni and Directional antenna, so one each per router? or given I more likely has LoS with Three should go completely directional with that and then on Vodafone go completely Omni?
3) My understanding is if I plan to use 2 antennas to create 4x4 MIMO I should mount them one below the other. Is this correct?
Sorry for the long post. I'm sure I have have left out important details so please let me know if I can provide any other info.
Thanks
Jason
My wife and I bought our dream house in June this year which is semi-rural, its rural setting (4 acres) but very close (walking distance) to the market town of Stokesley. I admittedly did a poor job researching what internet was available to it, it showed as FTTC so I figured it would be useable. When I tried to move my FTTP package with BT over they said there no point as I'd be lucky to get over 3Mbps. So I quickly ordered Three sim with B535 to run a basic 4G setup. It's been less than ideal but it was always meant to be interim solution as I wanted to order FTTPoD. At the start of August I paid £16K for FTTPoD, 4 months in I got pretty disappointing update that not a lot has been done so I could be waiting a good while. At the same time storm Arwen done a lot of damage in our area and managed to make our Three 4G unusable - there network status tool reports issues but not really any information. I suspect its other towers are down so more users have ended up on the tower we use as speeds can vary so much, from 30Mbps to not beable to load a webpage.
Before I continue its probably worth noting Starlink is not available for me, it is about half mile up the road which is upsetting. It's listed as mid 2022 for me.
I've been working from home since COVID hit and probably need a better than average line due to my job, I'm a web developer. I've ended up the office more and more due the issues I'm having when ideally I'd work from home. And with a lot of my projects based in USA I need to be able to jump on to sort issues in the evenings. And with Boris announcement tonight I may not have any choice but to work from home soon.
So I decided throw some money at the problem even if its only for six months or so. I know from testing I can get reasonable 4G with Vodafone and suspect Three 4G issues will be resolved in the coming weeks. The plan is to run both Three and Vodafone to house, meaning I can use one network for general stuff like TVs etc. and another as work line (and a bit of online gaming). I've checked they come from different towers. I ordered two Huawei B818 modded for 4x4 MIMO external antennas from Router Mods. And I've order two Poynting OMNI-600 and two Poynting XPOL-2-5G V3. I believe I would have LoS to Three tower as its so close but not completely sure on Vodafone. My questions are:
1) If mounted on either end of the house, reasonable distance apart can actually have one on Three and other on Vodafone? or would they actually cause signal issues.
2) Would it be beneficial to mix Omni and Directional antenna, so one each per router? or given I more likely has LoS with Three should go completely directional with that and then on Vodafone go completely Omni?
3) My understanding is if I plan to use 2 antennas to create 4x4 MIMO I should mount them one below the other. Is this correct?
Sorry for the long post. I'm sure I have have left out important details so please let me know if I can provide any other info.
Thanks
Jason