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how to improve signal and speed on home internet¿
I'm only getting about 25 to 45 Mbps down and similar up. I keep seeing people get in the 200s down! How can I get those kind of speeds? I'm not very far from a tower and I've tried the Nokia Gateway all over the house!
- bock57Channel Chaser
H0GGZ1LLA wrote:
You need to move your gateway, you are on band n71, you need to be on band n41.
- jeff1805Network Novice
Just got my home 5g 2 days ago and have poor speeds. I am trying to follow the advice in this thread, but when I go to 192.168.12.1, I do not find any options (or mention) of the primary or secondary signal. I have “home”, “networks”, and “support” buttons on the side. Any ideas?
- ShewhoeggsNetwork Novice
Hi All,
You’ll have to forgive me, I’m reading this forum and not understanding a ton, but hoping someone’s still watching it. We’ve been having horrific service for the last few days, 3.65mbps down and 0.73 up, and i’m currently sitting next to the gateway. The signal on the can has never been higher than 2 bars, no matter where i go in the house. It resides on in in the SW corner of the house. These are the stats I currently have, no secondary connection whatsoever. Can anyone offer assistance? The LAST thing i want is to return to comcast, but I work from home and we stream everything; can’t have speeds like this.
- DWomackTransmission Trainee
Initially I was on a tower with b41 and no 5G. Tower was a Sprint tower that has now been turned off.
50 down and 30 up. That was In September. It was much more reliable than the current.
cellmapper only shows 2 n41 towers in the whole Chattannoga area. One downtown an the other east, northeast. All the n71 are along the interstates. - DWomackTransmission Trainee
This is the last 24 hours:
b66 and n41
Waveform panel antenna
- DWomackTransmission Trainee
This is last 7 days:
Chattanooga, TN
- DWomackTransmission Trainee
I think I am experiencing tower congestion. Works great during the night but terrible during the day.
if you know what a Raspberry Pi is there is software on GitHub called internet-pi. It acquires statistics on any internet connection. Mine is plugged into a Ethernet jack on the gateway.
- H0GGZ1LLARoaming Rookie
BlueSurf wrote:
You have nothing to lose but to try. I sent my “can” back, a few days later my brother got one around the corner and he got great numbers. I re-ordered it. Meanwhile I watched every video on the net and I called T-Mobile and was transferred to a T-Mobile engineer, he told me the “can” doesn’t like being in a window or direct sunlight, keep it away. My kitchen has 2 windows and putting it higher was the game changer. If you have a tall piece of furniture in your living room or dining room give it a try. It just may be perfect or close.
Yea it sitting on a shelf about 6ft high! I'm going to have to try something! It's frustrating and I know I'm just jealous but seeing those with 200 down man it gets to me!
- BlueSurfTransmission Trainee
You have nothing to lose but to try. I sent my “can” back, a few days later my brother got one around the corner and he got great numbers. I re-ordered it. Meanwhile I watched every video on the net and I called T-Mobile and was transferred to a T-Mobile engineer, he told me the “can” doesn’t like being in a window or direct sunlight, keep it away. My kitchen has 2 windows and putting it higher was the game changer. If you have a tall piece of furniture in your living room or dining room give it a try. It just may be perfect or close.
- formercanuckSpectrum Specialist
Can likes being up on the ceiling, as it would typically have less to block it from a line of site to a tower. The higher the frequency, the less well that it does going through material, hence why mmWave loses signal from literally .. anything in between.
It’ll be interesting to try one of these. I used the older 4G LTE Home internet and had ~140Mbps when they first came out. Since then, the sites bumped up LTE, and during the day, on my phone, I can get 160Mbps, and over 230Mbps at night. 5G n41 is reachable a couple blocks away from a site ~1 mile away, and will aggregate to ~450Mbps.
My signal is considered ‘weak’ by above standards, but low use:
B66 (AWS) LTE
RSRP= -108dBm
RSRQ= -12
SINR=13.4
MIMO Configured: 4
Carrier Agg: AWS 20x20, PCS 15x15, LTE 700: 5x5
Fortunately, the site has a low range, mostly residential, so .. its mostly ‘unused’ in my sector.
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