Nuno Gomes
Member
New user and a Luddite so be gentle!
I read this forum with interest and learned a lot. This was my first foray into 4g/5g hubs having lost the will to live with BT and the ongoing issues with my landline. Matters came to a head when my FTTC connection has been down for 6 months due to a vehicle wiping out the cabinet that supports my line.
So I committed to Three‘s home broadband. I live where the coverage for 4g is meant to be excellent and 5g for outdoors only. The cell ID is 261192. In reality I don’t see 5g on my phone and the 4g in my house is at best fair. So when contacting the local shop I was expecting them to provide a 4g hub but instead I was told I would be better off getting a 5g one so I was ‘future proof’. I had the Zyxel on an upstairs window closest to the mast but had a pretty ropey 4g signal through it (>110dbm) and no 5g. After a bit of experimenting I found by pointing the hub out of an open window I got a sketchy 5g signal (115-120+). Therefore I committed to an external antenna - Poynting XPOL-1-5G V2. This turned out to be useless giving me a worse signal than that through the open window. So decided to return the Zyxel And the antenna.
Surprisingly Three suggested I try the ZTE instead. What a difference! I am getting 5g in the same position without the need to open a window with a signal ranging between 108 to 118 dbm. Well pleased.
I read this forum with interest and learned a lot. This was my first foray into 4g/5g hubs having lost the will to live with BT and the ongoing issues with my landline. Matters came to a head when my FTTC connection has been down for 6 months due to a vehicle wiping out the cabinet that supports my line.
So I committed to Three‘s home broadband. I live where the coverage for 4g is meant to be excellent and 5g for outdoors only. The cell ID is 261192. In reality I don’t see 5g on my phone and the 4g in my house is at best fair. So when contacting the local shop I was expecting them to provide a 4g hub but instead I was told I would be better off getting a 5g one so I was ‘future proof’. I had the Zyxel on an upstairs window closest to the mast but had a pretty ropey 4g signal through it (>110dbm) and no 5g. After a bit of experimenting I found by pointing the hub out of an open window I got a sketchy 5g signal (115-120+). Therefore I committed to an external antenna - Poynting XPOL-1-5G V2. This turned out to be useless giving me a worse signal than that through the open window. So decided to return the Zyxel And the antenna.
Surprisingly Three suggested I try the ZTE instead. What a difference! I am getting 5g in the same position without the need to open a window with a signal ranging between 108 to 118 dbm. Well pleased.























