Hello!
I have LtAP Mini LTE Kit in my car to provide more reliable (as I thought) and powerful wireless connection to provide multimedia unit and passengers with internet even where phone dies (as I thought).
I love MikroTik very much, but LtAP Mini LTE is a complete disappointment.
When I’m in city with strong 3/4G coverage, everything works as it supposed to. But when I leave big city Internet connection becames awful and nearly unusable (though usual phone with same ISP shows 3-4 sticks of 3G/H+ and above-mentioned Huawei 4G router also changes bands and base stations seamlessly).
In big city it reads Evolved 4G/LTE with excellent/excellent level-quality. But when signal (or even band/network mode) begins to change - sometimes it even hangs (reads “No signal” or “GSM EGPRS” when phone shows full H+ or LTE signal) and reboot is the quickest way to bring it back.
Am I alone with this problem and, if no, what can I do to improve reliability of 2/3/4G connection?
Modem and routerOS firmware are the latest available.
One of the first things I tried is to reduce Wi-Fi transmitter power - it helped a little.
The size of the antenna is not the unique thing that helps that the communication be better, a lot of factors impacts on this.
Is well known that bigs antennas can get more gain. Obviously I say you that a bigger antenna can help you not only by it’s size, also for his directionality.
If you use a high gain panel or sector antenna is much better that the internal onmidirectional antenna. Use antennas for outdoor if is possible.
I have a problem understanding how the bands work in different countries, so I’m not sure if it can be related for Russia.
You bought the LTE card, which includes support for the bands: 1,2,3,7,8,20,38 and 40. Have you checked, specially when comparing with a phone, which bands are being present? It might be that the phone is using different bands and this explains the difference…