Antenna and Router Suggestions Please

[fishplug]

I like the feature where you can take the battery out and use it on mains.

I don't know if they've resolved it with the M3s but the M1s were a bit hit and miss with this.

Mine (and lots of others) would constantly reboot itself if the battery wasn't in it but lots of other people had no issues at all doing exactly the same thing.

I did wonder after I sold it if this was because the voltage might have been spiking and if a regulated supply might have cured it, but I'll never know as I can't test it now

 

[fishplug]

My average speed is probably somewhere around 50Mbps with the Teltonika & Poynting (permanent mount) across the board - but it's not uncommon to see speeds around 100Mbps and I think my peak so far was up in the 300+ region.

That said, 50Mbps is perfectly fine for 'working from van' video calls and more than enough for browsing and watching Netflix of an evening.

 

[CRD]

Thanks, fishplug for all your help and advice. I agree, achieving 50 Mbps reliably is fine.

 

[fishplug]

Always happy to share my experiences CRD - hope they've been of some help with what you end up choosing.

The next thing to look into is what SIM you want, but that could be a thread of it's own (there are already quite a few on here that are worth searching for and reading through)

 

[Guigsy]

In areas reasonable to good coverage, I often find my Teltonika RUTX50 and Poynting MIMO antenna is a bit slower than my phone. It's in areas with poor coverage or heavy congestionn like festivals where it seems to hold a connection when the phone gives up.

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[fishplug]

I'd definitely agree on the festival front.

I've come back to the van to find clusters of people sitting outside it having shared my guest WiFi password with each other as they had zero phone signal!

(easy enough to disperse them, turn the guest SSID off )

Phones have an impressive ability to get signal given the small form factor. I'll admit that I don't fully understand why an antenna fifteen times the size of my phone and a router ten times the size sometimes struggle to get the same signal as my phone...

 

[Guigsy]

Phones have an impressive ability to get signal given the small form factor. I'll admit that I don't fully understand why an antenna fifteen times the size of my phone and a router ten times the size sometimes struggle to get the same signal as my phone...

The LTE standard is evolving all the time. I think the latest is Cat 24? Each one has improvements that generally provide better performance. The chipsets in phones tend to be several Cat versions ahead of the modem chipsets in mobile routers. So in good conditions, a phone can out run a much bulkier dedicated router and antenna.

As Huawei are one of the primary drivers of the LTE standard in recent years, their mobile routers tend to be pretty good and be slightly closer to the latest versions and have more of the features. Yes, China developed a lot of your phone's 5G technology.

 

[CRD]

Is there a way of finding the Cat version of each iphone model?