SimonSays
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Hi all - I live close to London, in Surrey, but in an unusually rural pocket near Godstone. We don’t have a phone line because the fixed BB service is under 1mb/sec even on FTTC (we’re 2mi from the green cabinet) so we use 4G broadband services. Since Three started offering an uncapped plan, and we have three Three masts tat we can “see” we’re on that.
I have two Poynting antennas (the XPOL1 and XPOL2) on the outside of the house and best results seem to come from the mast middle distance but with least amount of foliage in the way. I can use my Draytek 2862Ln to measure RSRP (I can get about -85db to -90db).
Here’s the rub: if i` connect up the Huawei B310 supplied by Three, I can get a nice steady 30mbsec-40mbsec and every works well. The only problem is that I *can’t* use the Huawei as it won’t bridge and I need to connect to a fairly large network at home where I use the Draytek to manage policies and a mesh system for access in different parts of the house (thick walls!).
When I use the Draytek’s own LTE access capability, I get erratic speeds, terrible throughput to the fixed network and even full stop. I can’t seem to finds the detail of the profile the Huawei is using sop I can’t simply copy the MTU, or anything else, from there. I’m using the same APN settings as the Huawei and those I found in various places online (three.co.uk and no user/pass) so that feels right.
I figured out that I probably needed to alter the MTU (it was set at 1500 on the Draytek) and used the Draytek’s own Path MTU Discovery functionality to optimise, That process took me to 1396 and that works better but I’m now able to get 25mbsec to 35 mbsec downstream, 10mbsec to 25 mbsec upstream (which is way more than I’ve seen before) on Ookla Speetest but the speed builds slowly and I’m getting frequent timeouts on simple access like webpages and buffering on more intensive access like YouTube and Netflix.
Sorry for the essay - I hope it helps give context and shows what I’ve tried. Can anyone advise further on MTU, or elsewhere if I’m looking in the wrong place?
Many thanks in advance!
Simon
I have two Poynting antennas (the XPOL1 and XPOL2) on the outside of the house and best results seem to come from the mast middle distance but with least amount of foliage in the way. I can use my Draytek 2862Ln to measure RSRP (I can get about -85db to -90db).
Here’s the rub: if i` connect up the Huawei B310 supplied by Three, I can get a nice steady 30mbsec-40mbsec and every works well. The only problem is that I *can’t* use the Huawei as it won’t bridge and I need to connect to a fairly large network at home where I use the Draytek to manage policies and a mesh system for access in different parts of the house (thick walls!).
When I use the Draytek’s own LTE access capability, I get erratic speeds, terrible throughput to the fixed network and even full stop. I can’t seem to finds the detail of the profile the Huawei is using sop I can’t simply copy the MTU, or anything else, from there. I’m using the same APN settings as the Huawei and those I found in various places online (three.co.uk and no user/pass) so that feels right.
I figured out that I probably needed to alter the MTU (it was set at 1500 on the Draytek) and used the Draytek’s own Path MTU Discovery functionality to optimise, That process took me to 1396 and that works better but I’m now able to get 25mbsec to 35 mbsec downstream, 10mbsec to 25 mbsec upstream (which is way more than I’ve seen before) on Ookla Speetest but the speed builds slowly and I’m getting frequent timeouts on simple access like webpages and buffering on more intensive access like YouTube and Netflix.
Sorry for the essay - I hope it helps give context and shows what I’ve tried. Can anyone advise further on MTU, or elsewhere if I’m looking in the wrong place?
Many thanks in advance!
Simon