4G. Modem / internet advice

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So we’re in France and my TELTONIKA 850 is only showing half a thingy on Speedtest but both ipad and phone are really barred up on 4g about 30 plus so I Know there is a strong signal, any suggestions why the modem is really slow, btw the upload is 6 but download half , would swapping the 2 antenna cables over make a difference?
 
Swapping the cables made it worse so returned to original so tested again now 0.29 down and 4.6 upload but phone and ipad 25 plus
 
I assume that your ipad and phone are on the same network? Have you tried rebooting the Teletonika? Also check that the APN settings in the router are the correct ones for your network as they can be different when abroad, if they are set to auto and they are wrong use the manual stting and put the correct ones in (y)

Regards,
Del
 
Can I ask are the phone and tablet showing good signals when connected to the modem or through their respective SIMs to the cell phone network? Cos in the former case they would show full bars if all 3 were in the van.
 
Glandwr said:
Can I ask are the phone and tablet showing good signals when connected to the modem or through their respective SIMs to the cell phone network? Cos in the former case they would show full bars if all 3 were in the van.
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They show good signal when WiFi turned off so their SIM’s look ok, they’re poor through the RUT850, we’re only a day from Spain now so I’ll grin and bear it then buy a data SIM in Spain and see if that helps sticking to one network, all devices are connected to Orange at the moment, all SIM’s are SKY on same contract, the modem network is set to auto and I’m not sure how to do a manual setting, if it doesn’t improve in Spain I’ll ask how to do it but thanks for replies so far.
 
I got this Orange sim in Spain, 100GB for 20.00€ lasta for 1 month, beware though I thought that once I got into Protugal I would be able roam freely but there's a 12GB fair usage outside of Spain.

Regards,
Del
 
Not all 4G devices are the same. Phone's in particular get the higher category 4G transceivers first with other devices playing catch-up. Additionally, folks often retain a router longer than they do a phone. I note that my own Teltonika RutX11 only supports LTE Cat 6 while my phone is Cat 20. You can read about LTE categories here: https://blog.linitx.com/what-is-lte-cat20-and-what-are-the-benefits/

On top of the category support, you also have band support. Phones again seem to get support for a wider range of bands, and the bands in use for 4G have been growing. If the local Tx that your phone connects to is on say B8 (900MHz), but the Teltonika does not support this band then it will connect to another signal, possibly much weaker. Detail on bands here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks_in_Europe

On top of this, external roof antennae offer different gains at different frequencies, but should in all cases remain better than the antenna's in a phone! I've had good results from a pair of these: https://www.connextech.co.uk/lmo613...ultiband-mimo-outdoor-omni-antenna-1536-p.asp I currently use one for WiFi, but went with the pair for future-proofing reasons - future 4x4 MiMo for 5G and LTE cat 20.

The only solution is to upgrade your Teltonika. I am looking at updating to the 5G/Cat20 ready RutX50, but they want almost £600 for it currently!!

Karen
 
veletron said:
Not all 4G devices are the same. Phone's in particular get the higher category 4G transceivers first with other devices playing catch-up. Additionally, folks often retain a router longer than they do a phone. I note that my own Teltonika RutX11 only supports LTE Cat 6 while my phone is Cat 20. You can read about LTE categories here: https://blog.linitx.com/what-is-lte-cat20-and-what-are-the-benefits/

On top of the category support, you also have band support. Phones again seem to get support for a wider range of bands, and the bands in use for 4G have been growing. If the local Tx that your phone connects to is on say B8 (900MHz), but the Teltonika does not support this band then it will connect to another signal, possibly much weaker. Detail on bands here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks_in_Europe

On top of this, external roof antennae offer different gains at different frequencies, but should in all cases remain better than the antenna's in a phone! I've had good results from a pair of these: https://www.connextech.co.uk/lmo613...ultiband-mimo-outdoor-omni-antenna-1536-p.asp I currently use one for WiFi, but went with the pair for future-proofing reasons - future 4x4 MiMo for 5G and LTE cat 20.

The only solution is to upgrade your Teltonika. I am looking at updating to the 5G/Cat20 ready RutX50, but they want almost £600 for it currently!!

Karen
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Yeah a lot of 5G routers are way too expensive. Better to get a ZTE MC888 for about £250 until they get real and drop prices
 
Nabsim said:
Yeah a lot of 5G routers are way too expensive. Better to get a ZTE MC888 for about £250 until they get real and drop prices
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I bought a ZTE MU5001 off ebay for less than £150.00 shipped and it had the ethernet port on so I can connect it to my RUT955 WAN port, seems to work great and everything that's connected to the RUT955 still works the same but with 5G speeds :unsure:

Regards,
Del
 
alwaysared said:
I bought a ZTE MU5001 off ebay for less than £150.00 shipped and it had the ethernet port on so I can connect it to my RUT955 WAN port, seems to work great and everything that's connected to the RUT955 still works the same but with 5G speeds :unsure:

Regards,
Del
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I’m not sure if this is even English 🫣
 
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