When I mount a device near to base station (lets say 1km distance) with a right APN I get LTE connection - good speed and everything is OK.
But when I mount a device 5km from base station where mobile phone gets only 3G (in moments) and EDGE connection LHG wont connect to LTE or any type of connection with right APN.
Funny thing is when I put the SIM card at that same location in ISPs modem LTE connects with -97 dBm and works fine (modem has internal omni antennas model is ZTE MF283+).
Anyone knows a reason why it wont connect.
Could it be that is to weak to connect.
Look at the frequency used by both cell towers … unfortunately LHG has really shitty (for some bands even negative) antenna gain for low-frequency bands and thus performs bad when it is supposed to connect with low frequency to a distant cell tower.
If you have a look at official product brochure, then you’ll see two Antenna Gain charts at the bottom of page 2. You’ll see that gain at 800MHz is (miserable) 4_.something_ dBi while gain at 1800MHz is 10 dBi higher. If there’s unobstructed line of sight between cell tower antennae and LHG LTE6, it should still work somehow. However if the line is obstructed (by tree tops or other objects), then low antenna gain becomes a huge problem.
The difference in antenna gain for both frequencies in first case (the close cell tower with dual bands) likely means your LGH LTE6 kit mostly (if not only) works on 1.8GHz frequency even though signal loss at 1800Mhz is higher than at 800Mhz (but likely both are transmitted at same power from cell tower antennae).
This link won’t work well regardless the antenna used … the tool says “Link obstructed” … so you don’t really have “Line of Sight” after all. Is there another (even more distant) cell tower available? Even if further away, if unobstructed it will likely give you much better service.
The ordinary modem can work off some reflections since it’s got omni-directional antenna. SXT has quite directional antenna, hence reflections coming from other directions don’t help.
A u kojoj si ti to vukojebini?
[edit] You may get better off by using some LTE modem (such as Chateau) connected to proper antennae, such as Iskra P58 MIMO. It may be ugly as hell, but has decent gain also in lower bands. PDF with catalogue has all the gain diagrams. But since there is no LOS, you’ll have to experiment with turning antennae around to find “sweet spot”.
Based on the name the place looks like a ski resort. Considering the weather conditions you usually have, I would definitely use the lower LTE bands, ie 700-900 MHz. Also, in that perspective both LHG and SXT are far from optimal.
The yagis that Mkx mentioned seems quite good from the pure signal gain perspective but considering the harsh environment it might be better of with protected/enclosed antennas like Poynting or similar enclosed dish antennas. “Line of Sight” is also a necessity so you may want to consider using a mast.
Don’t let the last part of place name (Turjanski) mislead you … there’s no ski resort in that area. But indeed they have harsh weather conditions during winter time, so indeed some enclosed antenna may be better choice instead of the ones I proposed.
Haha, it wasn’t the -ski part that fooled me, I was when I checked out Vrhovine in google maps and found this picture of a cable car and wrongly assumed it was a ski resort! //Cheers!
//Cheers!
… you should visit it some time and ride on