If you are in a fixed location then I would use a directional atenna .I just watched your video. Great! We have one further requirement we want to be able to move the router between the camper and our house as we have no landline at our house due to the amount of time we are away and relative poverty! So can you recommend a different aerial to connect to the router when in the house. Unfortunately the mast we can see out of our back window does not emit 3 mobile only ee but 3 is close enough.
It runs on 9-30v DC.Just watched this. Very useful video Phil. What pricked my ears up though was you stating that you can now put mobile sims with unlimited plans in data devices like 4g routers. This could be extremely useful up here where Broadband is a bit patchy. I have a client with three sites and the only way they can get broadband via 4g is with Vodafone but Vodafones data packages are not unlimited and they use a lot of data. None of the other providers like 3 etc have decent coverage.
If your saying I can put a fifteen quid a month mobile sim in their 4g router and it will work that could be a game changer for them. I do wonder if there will be any fair usage policies though as they will hammer it.
Love the idea of the USB and SD card slots on that router as well so you can stream movies etc, store files and share them like a little NAS drive. Is it all 12v?
Is there an equivalent directional aerial With the 5 cables as your suggested omni? Or I suppose the Wi-Fi aerials would be better inside the house and the gps has no function when static.If you are in a fixed location then I would use a directional atenna .
I ran a few speedtests on my laptop yesterday, on Virgin I was getting 102Mbps, then I ran a test on 3 using a Huawei B535 Router, I was getting 54Mbps so I was quite pleased with that, today it is a bit slower but still getting 28.57I have been with three for years but have noticed it getting slower this last 12 months and my contract is due for renewal in February, just wondering whether to change network or not.
I`ve been with Three for many many years and last years ( 2019 ) roaming in France and a little bit of Spain was the best ever with an excellent 4G 99% of the time.
The best way IMHO is to manually select the roaming partner if you`re not happy with the automatically selected one.
By far the best two roaming partners on Three are F SFR in France and Movistar in Spain. The automatically selected ones where very very poor in comparison.
In Blackpool were I am mostly based there signal has been getting worse on three, some streets in the town centre I struggle to get internet at all, I have rung them up and they have told me to just set my phone manually to except 2g and 3 g only and forget 4g, this works to some degree, but one would think you could leave your phone on auto to use 2g,3g,4g automatically. As I said I have been with them for years and I have been disappointed this last 12 months, perhaps because it is by far the cheapest network they have to many customers eating up the data slowing things down.I ran a few speedtests on my laptop yesterday, on Virgin I was getting 102Mbps, then I ran a test on 3 using a Huawei B535 Router, I was getting 54Mbps so I was quite pleased with that, today it is a bit slower but still getting 28.57
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