An A BER is great and all that....

ED E

...but so is Black Mirror Season 4.




This thread doesnt really have a huge point except to demonstrate the understanding frustration new home owners experience and the unfair backlash that MNO CS probably get.


That house is about 500m from a main site, excellent RSSI/P and throughput of 40D/45U in the garden. Anywhere in doors though you'll peak at about 1.5D/1U. That includes in the window facing the site. Both RASs(HSDPA/LTE).

Open the Velux and you instantly regain 60% of throughput. I couldnt determine what coating the glass had but we know its the anti UV kind or similar.


Repeaters in every dwelling isnt the solution. Maybe its time building standards started to account for RF in the cellular bands.

listermint

Why would an external antenna not be used in such a scenario .

I mean we have TV aerials and satellites outside for a reason ...

ED E

listermint wrote: »

Why would an external antenna not be used in such a scenario .

I mean we have TV aerials and satellites outside for a reason ...

Not when it comes to cellular connectivity. If it were permanently occupied you'd probably go for an LTE router with external antenna (place has a FTA dish too, + Saorview) but that requires an additional sub/setup.

In the above case it was very very RF shielded but also very close to the RRU so calls still worked. The same house built 4km away would get no coverage at all. Wifi calling is a workaround, but a very limited one.

KeRbDoG

Is this anything a leaky coaxial cable setup with largish outside antenna could fix?

listermint

ED E wrote: »

Not when it comes to cellular connectivity. If it were permanently occupied you'd probably go for an LTE router with external antenna (place has a FTA dish too, + Saorview) but that requires an additional sub/setup.

In the above case it was very very RF shielded but also very close to the RRU so calls still worked. The same house built 4km away would get no coverage at all. Wifi calling is a workaround, but a very limited one.

I'd prefer a warm house tbh.

Marlow

You can't have it both ways.

That's the way it is. So generally an outdoor antenna, cables into the house, router there.

There are even routers, that will take voice-enabled USB 3G/LTE dongles (some AVM Fritz!Box models do), so that you can make phone calls and use broadband on the same SIM in the router.

All you need to do then, is forward your normal mobile to that number.

There's a solution for everything.

/M

digiman

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