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ZTE MC801A external antennas

rosak

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Hello everyone.
Last thread I found about adding external antenna(s) to ZTE MC801A was from about 1.5 years ago, and my case is a bit different.
I have ZTE MC801A from Three and I use it in my van I live in. I travel a lot around South West- Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and quite often I either get no signal or signal is so poor I can't watch YouTube or Netflix. Sometimes I get better signal on EE in my phone, so I just tether.
Usually if I put the router on top of the van roof it gets better, but that's not a good solution.
So I'm not looking for hyper speeds, I'm looking for a reasonable speeds of mere 10-20 Mbps and rather for being able to connect at all in places where I can't from inside of the van. As someone suggested I'll buy something from Amazon so I can return it if it doesn't work but please help me where to start.
I believe I need a 4g antenna as in those remote places there's no 5g anyway. Do I need 2x2 MIMO or 4x4 with some Y splitters I read about on this forum?
I see that people do mods and have 8 external connectors, 4 for 4g and 4 for 5g. If it's worth it I can do such mod too, no problem with that.

Thanks in advance for shedding some light on this.
 
The External Antenna Ports on the ZTE 801 will not work for 4G, only 5G Bands above 3300mhz (n78 in the UK) so plugging anything into the Ports other than what I have mentioned above is a waste of time, as it will still use the Internal Antennas for 3/4G Bands.

Secondly, not all 801 Devices actually support External Antenna use or Int/Ex Antenna Port switching even though the Ports are avaible.
 
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