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4G speeds atrocious no phone signal either..
Yes, you're right. I was experimenting with antennas using a router that cost £150, I believe it was a Poynting antenna with a TP-Link router.
Then I thought more about what they call a SIM card-based modem, a portable device that can sit just outside on the windowsill, and I can connect to it wirelessly.
Alternatively, I could use a router that allows a SIM card to be inserted inside it and place it just outside.
What are your thoughts?
Just a bizarre update. I went outside by the kitchen window and opened the side gate leading to my enclosed mini garden, and it downloaded at 177 Mbps, with 4 Mbps uploads. Now if only I could get that signal inside without incurring high costs...
Haha
EthanielUK I suggest a name change for you......how about Heath Robinson? 😂
Haha it's an old hamster house roll, it's pirched on top of the fence, I cut a hole under it, and screwed in a mop handle to keep it balanced and fed the cable down the hold into the powersupply. And no hamster gets a ps4 lol
EthanielUK So the hamster gets the luxury of home wifi? Now that's what I call a real animal lover! Has it also got its own X-box? 😳
I think I need your genius title. I have a little plastic box that my hamster lives in, and the MiFi goes in it perfectly. So it's covered from the rain, and the power bank is in a plastic bag with the handles facing down, so it's totally waterproof...
I'm not a rat, lol. But it's the area with added complexities of the property. Its ztill not the greatest option but it will do.
EthanielUK Certainly does sound like it's a problem with the structure of your property. You're not living in a biscuit tin, are you?🤣
There's an app that allows you to log on to it. It tells you the connection (3G, 4G, 4G+), and if it supports 5G, which it doesn't, it will say so on the app on main screen, only problem is the battery doesnt last long well 2hrs or so not fully tested it yet. But late last night in the hom struggled with it getting signal so back outside it went..
EthanielUK Result then!!👏
How do you know that the sim is not picking up 5G when it sits in the hotspot? Does the manual say that the box will only work on 4G?
That said, what matters is that you get a usable signal, be it 4G, 5G or any other G !! (Not 3G as they're turning it off!!!)
Soooo, I thought I would uodate those interested on the outcome of todays experiment. I today, purchased a three mobile 4g+ hotspot fron cex, it was second hand and it was £20 cheap.
So, today I charged it up, out the simcard from my phone into the mobile hitspot device and its sitting on the back of a wooden support bar on the back of my wooden fence door, whixh is wedfed with a rock to sfop the wind blowing it and resultinf it falling on the floor and shattering into pieces.
The result is positive. I have now 4g signal in my home with at least 53 Mbps, and 10 Mbps upload speeds.
How the hell this works I dont know, because this device is powered of a small battery like the old nokia batteries. Its sending a wireless or wifi signal out and is going through 3 walls. So it appears that wifi is stronger than 5g signal maybe but heg, it works..
So yeah cheers for the support...
The modem is a very small box. It's used for SIM cards and runs off USB. I have a 20,000w portable power bank, and I can plug it into that. As for the rain, a thin plastic bag tied up would suffice. These are the extremes we have to go through to get something. It's not quite on the windowsill either; it's three steps beyond that behind a fence door where it all happens.
This is going to be tricky... But there has to be a way, and at a low cost just havent found the answer yet..
EthanielUK On the upside, at least you have found that there is a signal near your home!
Not sure about leaving a modem outside on the windowsill - Rain damage and risk of electrical item blowing up? How to keep it plugged in and close window?
