I have a wAP LTE on my shed outside providing LTE connectivity for my Internet access.
I can get approximately 25Mbps from Vodafone over LTE normally.
My Vodafone contract is due to expire in the new year and I have found that EE have LTE-A locally so I would likely benefit from LTE6 and using CA.
EE and Voda use the same mast (as best I can tell) which is 3.8 miles away.
I have near line of sight from the roof of my house so I plan to put a LTE box up there to improve things but the question I have is how can I tell if I will see any difference between replacing the LTE miniPCI card with an LTE6 one vs replacing the whole unit with a SXT6 or even a LHG6?
Are there any calculations that can be done to determine when each of the 3 choices would be best suited (i.e. fastest given everything else is the same).
SXTR at this distance… sure, he will connect but not good speed. I not think about it, lhgr cost only little more.
LHGR or LDFR - yes. They can be used. Theyr antenna is only good for frequency >1000Mhz and you must have remember that. Details into documentation of product !.
In your place I will think about LHGR (without lte module) and with Quectel EM12-G who is LTE-A Pro.
Vodafone (current carrier) use Band 20 with 10Mhz bandwidth (LTE, no LTE-A).
EE use Band 20 with 5Mhz bandwidth (LTE) and Band 3 (LTE-A) with 20MHz bandwidth.
Does the use of the lower frequency Band 20 mean that the LHGR isn’t a good choice?
In your opinion is there an alternative I should be looking at to provide better 800Mhz coverage or will the LHGR LTE6 be of significant improvement on the wAP LTE anyway at 800Mhz?
Like @LSan83 said,
and additional. Mostly we focus at hi-freq like 1800 B3 or 2100 B1 or 2600 B7 because they can give us big transfers.
I prefer install LDFR to reach one of this hi-freq then use 900 B8 or 800Mhz Band20 because those low-freq have
signal range is bigger then hi-freq and Bandwidth is common 10,15 or the best 20Mhz
count of users are bigger at low-freq → lower speed and this low-freq additional have bad Bandwidth like 5Mhz
I would not recommend B20 (800 MHz) on either LHG or SXT because of the bad antenna gain at that frequency. Use a dedicated antenna for B20 or even better, take SIB’s advice using the upper LTE bands which are generally better suited for datacom.
With your distance (ie 3.8 miles) to the mast just make sure you have unobstructed line of sight using the higher frequency otherwise it’s probably better to stick to B20 with a dedicated external antenna.
I would also call both operators to check available LTE bands and where to find the nearest base station.
Thanks, I’ll get up on my roof this weekend and confirm LoS.
I’ve been using mast data from https://www.cellmapper.net/ which has confirmed cell references etc that I see on my wAP and iPhones so I think it’s fairly accurate.
