I have had LHG LTE6 kit here in UK on EE for a few months now and the last few days the download and upload speeds have dropped from 80Mbs / 40Mbs down to no greater than 18Mbs / 5Mbs now obviously this is still not too bad but it doesn’t help me when demonstrating to potential customers.
Could I be moving from a 4G to a 3G connection? I have noticed a different external IP address when the slowdown occurs
Or an issue with the Network? I looked online and there are no reports from EE
Or an issue with the weather?
In the Router OS under the LTE settings I have always had LTE selected
GSM and 3G are unticked!
I’m using bands 3 and 7.
If you see an different IP i think is because of FUP. Maybe your LTE Provider has set up Fair Usage Policy that drop your speed after some total traffic! In my country cable providers use it with and amount of 100Gb / week!
This is jut my opinion, there are so many other reasons for this that need to be tested!
your 4g relay antenna is saturated by too many users on it. to verify a simple test consists in making a speedtest outside of the hours of use either very early in the morning or during the night.
the change of ip can also indicate that you change relays you must fix your first LTE band so that you force the connection to the same relay, in your case I advise you to fix band 3 if it is at least at 15mhz.
you may be at the edge of the cell, a SINR which can sometimes go well below 0 can demonstrate this to you. note the SINR is a value that fluctuates a lot and is normal. in this case try to reposition your antenna.
Ok so it’s happened again this afternoon back down just below 20Mb
The readings are the same as before and also I have the same external IP address with an uptime of 1d.
I have spoken to EE who tell me I’m not being rate limited they also from my postcode say there are no issues with my nearby masts and are apparently “green” which means not being saturated…
They then said it’s my equipment.
Is it Current Cell ID which tells me which Mast i’m currently connected to?
Looking through the LTE interface status page there are no changes at all…
Current Operator down to CQI All the same as when it was running slow. Connection uptime is now 3hrs so it hasn’t reconnected and the external IP remains the same.
(Oh and that IP’s blacklisted from replying to this thread…had to VPN to reply )
I’ll echo idea of @dad2312: could be that serving cell gets loaded during peak hours. One has to keep in mind that LTE cell capacity is around 10Mbps/MHz (using MIMO 2x2 and modulation 256QAM, user devices have to support the same as well), giving 200Mbps per typical full-bandwidth cell/carrier (e.g. B3 or B7 carriers). Lower CAT modems (AFAIK CAT6 as well) only support modulation 64QAM and max throughput drops to 150Mbps per full-bandwidth cell/carrier. And that’s maximum number if user (or all users if there are multiple) are in ideal radio conditions, with degraded radio link usable throughput drops considerably.
If there are a few users using up resources at the same time, per user throughput gets divided among all users. As the network is built for multiple users, MNO won’t blink with an eye if a cell is 100% utilized less than 50% of time. Or if not many users complain about achievable throughput. It also depends on how country regulator sets limits about advertised speed v.s. achievable speed. In our country it’s fine to advertise “up to” some speed if users can achieve 50% of advertised speed during 90% of time outside peak hours.
You have great value (may be just RSRQ a bit high compare to other value it have to be near -5dB but at your level there is non influence of your network speed )
with these values the only explanation is too many users on your relai antenna
You can Try to point another relay antenna, LHG LTE is one of the best antennas I know (I already hooked up a relay antenna at 21 km: speed 8 Mbs down / 1 Mbs up)
Yep, LHG LTE seems to be one of the best antennas currently available on the market. I just wish the antenna fins were in the front and not in the back. I (and as mentioned by others, elsewhere) seem to get better signal by pointing the backside towards the cell tower. Hopefully, they fix that in the next model/revision.
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