I frequent quite a lot of forums but never even came across anything like this before. Nice to meet you all. I’m hoping you can offer me some assistance.
I have got keys this morning to a cottage in Devon, as part of the house move we require internet.
There is a long story behind it basically openreach where supposed to install a gig fibre line but haven’t and won’t until 26. 4 kids consoles and Computers and phones etc
On the side of my house I have got a sky dish and another small dish/receiver of some sort. I am a computer guy but never seen anything like this before.
I will attach some pictures if I can figure out how.
On it are some serial numbers etc. Its called a mikrotik SXT LTE6 kit. My understanding from some brief reading is that I can put a sim card to a 5g network into it and use it as a router of sorts.
Is that correct?
How do I distribute the signal?
Can I aggregate the 2 seperate connections into one on my desktop computer to increase the bandwidth until I have got the fibre installed?
Any other things I need suggestions etc?
I appreciate any assistance this is my first venture into the deep countryside ive always been in the city.
I am not familiar with LTE products, dont worry many are.
If you have two internet connections, LTE and skydish direct?
Then you have two main possibilities.
a. USE BOTH at the same time and provide the full available bandwidth
b. USE ONE as a PRIMARY, and the other as SECONDARY (backup), so that if the primary fails, the router switches to the backup.
I think you should use both to figure out which one is better for what purposes and that may help you decide.
A Third possibiity is that you figure out one of your WANS is better for some functions and the other WAN better suited to the rest of the functions.
Due to throughput or latency or what have you.
In this case the easy thing to do is make different subnets and then associated those subnets to specific WANs.
Now with failover, one would still be able to access the other, but for primary usage most of the time one can tailor to specific WANS.
This can be done on a user basis as well, if you cannot divide into subnets, but add a bit of complexity.
Another trick is to use WIFI such that perhaps have wired connection use one of the WANS, and WIFI use the other WAN, etc. So people can choose on the fly which connection they go out on.
Hi buddie appreciate the reply.
The LTE thing on the roof has 2 sim card slots for mobile LTE HOME WIFI. On top of that there is a normal sky dish on the roof next to it.
Although I am supposed to have a sensible connection there, their isnt. Not even sky. Ita just a tv dish AFAIK.
I was actually thinking about aggregating the 2 seperate sim card connections in that unit to give me double speed instead of one connection.
Sky say they can only supply 11 mbs ehich is because bt haven’t done there bit and installed the line they where supposed to.
There is an ethernet cable I’m guessing cat6e that goes round the outside of the building from the modem/receiver on the roof that comes in through a wall.
Not too worried about 2 seperate systems but I am wary of speed overall
But do you have the credentials to access that thing?
If you cannot obtain them, it is pretty much wasted time, and you’d be better served by a new “ordinary” device, provided that you have good (5G?) cellular coverage.
I don’t need credentials for it I can just reset it to factory spec and put a new sim into it. Then set it up myself, I won’t get faster from another device I dont think because there isn’t anything apart from fibre in the area that can provide faster to the property at the moment and that isn’t at my property yet buddie.
