{"id":1457,"date":"2020-04-08T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2020-05-30T14:45:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T14:45:54","slug":"mobile-broadband-external-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=1457","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Broadband External Antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We used to get fixed line broadband but it was a bit unreliable since the cable comes through a bunch of trees and whenever the wind blew the connection would keep dropping out. Obviously this would not do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So 3 do a mobile broadband solution for \u00a329 per month. I managed to snag it for \u00a320 a month but this lead to a whole bunch of calls with 3 who insisted on charging me \u00a329 per month…but that is a whole other story!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, we got a reasonable speed from the 3 router – about 18Mbps down and about the same up I think. But whilst researching why my page loads sometimes stalled I happened across a site where people were discussing their download speeds and some of these dudes were getting 80Mbps. Needless to say, I fancied a bit of that. So I bought myself a Poynting external antenna and sent the boy up onto the roof<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turns out having your son on the roof holding the antenna and just pointing it in random directions didn’t work out too well. So I built myself a little wooden caddy for the antenna and got myself up on the roof with a mobile app that measures all sorts of funky stuff like RSRQ, RSRP, RSSI and most importantly SINR [ Signal to Noise Ratio ]. By some judicial repositioning of the antenna whilst keeping an eye on the SINR mesaure I managed to get this…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well over double the speed I was getting from fixed line broadband. I’ve since seen it up at 50Mbps – but it all depends on how many people are on that given cell tower. These speeds are with 4G too – when 5G comes along … well <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We used to get fixed line broadband but it was a bit unreliable since the cable comes through a bunch of trees and whenever the wind blew the connection would keep dropping out. Obviously this would not do. So 3 do a mobile broadband solution for \u00a329 per month. I managed to snag it for … <\/p>\n

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