lusciouslukey
Regular Member
Hi,
I double posted in error and resulted in deletion of both. Anyway,
I have a Huawei B525-23 which is most beloved and has served me very well up until recently where the 2100 MHz re-farm touched on my area. I used to lock B3 and B20 on mast 9255 and that would aggregate when required but the majority of the time it was solely B3 and speeds over 50 Mbps. Then mast 5880 was created after the 3G site was overhauled and took over town! Well for me anyway. The new mast is B1, B3, B20 and B28 and with the deployed configuration the current B525 is only able to get B1. My phone aggregates B1 + B28 and when outside gets over 100Mbps. I can see B1, B3, B20 and B28 from my phone but of course the aging B525 cannot. I have a Poynting Omni antenna in the loft as I am not allowed to fix anything externally and have attached some of the current metrics from it.
After the re-farm 9255 was nobbled as no longer can aggregate and the B3 it serves is slower than B20! Incidentally while walking I managed over 100Mbps on band 20 but could not replicate the speed when I got home and locked B20 for a while. I am not locked to B1 from 5880 and really notice the dip in speed.
Does anyone have a B818-263 that is accessing B28 and utilising CA? What is the performance like? The B818-263 seems to have gone up in price again which is annoying seeing as that device is also getting pretty old now! I have found under £150 from EU inc VAT and the plug isn't an issue given it is powered by ac adapter.
I double posted in error and resulted in deletion of both. Anyway,
I have a Huawei B525-23 which is most beloved and has served me very well up until recently where the 2100 MHz re-farm touched on my area. I used to lock B3 and B20 on mast 9255 and that would aggregate when required but the majority of the time it was solely B3 and speeds over 50 Mbps. Then mast 5880 was created after the 3G site was overhauled and took over town! Well for me anyway. The new mast is B1, B3, B20 and B28 and with the deployed configuration the current B525 is only able to get B1. My phone aggregates B1 + B28 and when outside gets over 100Mbps. I can see B1, B3, B20 and B28 from my phone but of course the aging B525 cannot. I have a Poynting Omni antenna in the loft as I am not allowed to fix anything externally and have attached some of the current metrics from it.
After the re-farm 9255 was nobbled as no longer can aggregate and the B3 it serves is slower than B20! Incidentally while walking I managed over 100Mbps on band 20 but could not replicate the speed when I got home and locked B20 for a while. I am not locked to B1 from 5880 and really notice the dip in speed.
Does anyone have a B818-263 that is accessing B28 and utilising CA? What is the performance like? The B818-263 seems to have gone up in price again which is annoying seeing as that device is also getting pretty old now! I have found under £150 from EU inc VAT and the plug isn't an issue given it is powered by ac adapter.























