Hello
I am new with MikroTik.
I just got a WAP LTE kit because of the cell\band lock capability.
I already have other modem\router from ZTE and Huawey but none of these can lock the cell or the band.
I have to solve a problem in a premise where two BTS are available: one with very good performance and other with very very bad and all the devices tested (modem\router, USB dongle, smartphone) all of them join the bad BTS most of the time.
So I am now playing with this MikroTik at home to understand how it works
First impression: performances are ver very poor compared to any other device in my hand. So I am trying to perform tests in the same condition.
With the Huawey LTE4 I am getting 30 Mbps both up and down; with the MikroTik 3 Mbps down \ 15 Mbps up.
So I checked the cell where the Huawey is connected: EARFCN (1850 band 3) \ Cell ID (435)
On the Cell Monitor of the Mikrotik... I can see a lot of cells, but... no way to see the 435. Why????
Anyway I forced the Mikrotik to connect to this EARFCN \ PID and it connects.
Why it connects but Cell Monitor does not see it?
I increased the time in the Cell Monitor to 10 minutes... no signs of this cell.
Anyway the MikroTik on this cell performs VERY VERY poor... while the Huawey LTE CAT4 is very good.
According to some suggestion here around, I connected the MikroTik with wired cable and I disabled the onboard Wi-Fi: same results