If you decide to go the above route, teaming an external antenna with a good quality 4G router will give the best chance of success. Omni vs Directional The radiation patterns of the XPOL-1-5G antenna are near-ideal omni-directional and exceptionally well controlled. The XPOL-1-5G has achieved the required characteristics for a wide impedance and gain bandwidth antenna, while achieving near ideal radiation patterns over the entire bandwidth, by using an innovative design whereby the impedance bandwidth, gain and radiation patterns are matched over the entire frequency range. This offers superior performance across all frequency bands. This is an important factor for 4G LTE and future 5G technologies, where they rely on capacity enhancing features such as carrier aggregation to provide the best possible reception over multiple frequency bands. Suitable for Harsh Environments The XPOL-1, from Poynting, provides an innovative and future proof solution for 4G, 3G and 2G networks. It is a unique window, wall or pole mountable antenna giving you dual polarisation in a full LTE band omnidirectional antenna.

If you look close, you can see sealer around the joint, so it should be waterproof. It just looks wrong – do you know what I mean? You’d expect a little better, especially as the antenna wasn’t cheap at just under 80 quid! Anyway, let’s move on. For best operation this antenna should be mounted outdoors or on a window which has clear line of sight to the transmitter mast. The purpose of this antenna is to negate the signal loss due to the walls of the building by placing the antenna OUTSIDE. Optimum results will be obtained by placing the antenna outside, as high as possible and with the best line of sight to the mast. Trying to use this antenna inside will probably not help your signal. One of the reasons that 4G is faster than 3G is because it allows combining two or more antennas to increase performance. A3: The modem really is the easiest option. There is software available on smartphones (OpenSignal and others). The phones don’t have connectors for the antenna but sometimes it is useful to see if a location (position on roof etc) does already deliver better signal than say the other side of house/building. Just be patient with the modem signal strength readings – they often take 10 sec or more to update readings so don’t change the position of the antenna too fast. To get a sense of the modem response look at the signal when the antennas are disconnected and then just see how fast it responds when connecting the antenna. You will see that there is quite a delay between disconnecting the antenna and see the display on the modem changing.So here I’ll share my five Windows 10 data saving tips: to make your data go further when you’re on the road. 1. Turn on metered connection A Mifi or portable mobile hotspot is a device that works much like a smartphone. You insert a sim card into the MiFi device and it connects to a nearby 4G network. If there’s no 4G then it will automatically switch to 3G. Now in itself, the MiFi unit is no different from a smartphone in that respect, however, the real benefit comes from connecting an external antenna to the MiFi device. However, I did run a couple of tests so I could compare my MiFi equipment to just using a mobile phone, and the results were very surprising. A directional antenna only receives the signal from the direction it’s coming from. Whereas an omni-directional antenna receives the signal from every direction (360 degrees). So if you’re using a directional antenna you would need to know which direction the signal is coming from ( this smartphone app does exactly that). You then point the antenna in that direction. Directional antennas work best if you have a clear (unobstructed) line of sight of the mast.

Network operator flexibility - as the antennas is wideband, a new antenna is not needed per network operator - works on most networks For most uses, an Omni-Directional antenna will be best. Are you looking to mount your antenna at a fixed permanent location, and do you know where the nearest mast is and is there a direct line of sight between you and the cellular mast? Unless you can answer “yes” to all these question then an Omni is probably the type to go for.

Before I go any further and explore the other settings in the WiFi manager, I need to turn off the data connection. (This is necessary because all the time the Huawei E5577C is connected to EE, it will be eating into my data allowance.) But, if you disconnect the device from the laptop then you cannot access the WiFi manager. So what do you do? Incorporating two separately fed ultra wideband elements in a single housing, the antenna is equipped to provide client side MiMo and diversity support for the networks of today and tomorrow. Gain is min. 2 dBi across all bands: 790 – 960, 1710 – 2170, 2300-2400 and 2500 – 2700 MHz Bands.

The XPOL-1-V2 is available in two variations: the standard V2-21 and the V2-41. The V2-21 is a 2x2 MIMO antenna, meaning it acts as two antennas built into one and comes with two separate antenna cables for two streams of data. Conversely, the V2-41 is a 4x4 MU-MIMO antenna that acts as four antennas built-in, supporting four antenna cables for four separate data streams. A 4x4 antenna such as the V2-41 can, therefore, theoretically, achieve double the performance of a 2x2 antenna like the V2-21, although only when used with a 4x4 LTE router which could support the four data streams. Signal Strength – GSM & 3G/HSPA (RSSI) Applicable to GSM and 3G networks. The exact signal strength, often called Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI), is measured in dBm. The dBm scale is roughly between -50 and -120dBm, with -50 being perfect signal and -120 being when you fall off the network. RSSI measures both the usable signal and the noise in a single figure. I've read a little bit about RSRP, RSRQ, and SNR from here ( https://www.digi.com/support/knowledge-base/understanding-lte-signal-strength-values) but I can't get my head around the values I have with the antenna. My readings seem very similar and I'm not sure if I should be doing something differently.Connect to the modem with a computer/phone. Run a speed test (e.g www.speedtest.net) at the best angle. It is a good idea to run it twice since the results might vary. Also, try the “second angle” since the highest signal strength doesn’t necessarily mean the best MIMO performance. If the second angle gives good or better results than you, unfortunately, have to try several other angles using the Speedtest results to select the best orientation. However, if your phone’s network coverage is poor (or not supposed to be available in the area, like I found with EE), then using a MiFi device like the Huawei E5577C connected to a good external antenna like the Poynting XPOL-A0001, can provide great results. Even with a poor signal, using the Huawei E5577C with the XPOL-A0001 antenna gave some impressive 4G broadband speeds. Network providers… Now if (like the last time we stayed here) I wasn’t able to get Vodafone coverage, then I would be really pleased with the results I got from my new MiFi setup. But to be honest, my mobile phone has worked better and is more than adequate for getting online. After a lot of research, I’ve now got a much better understanding of the problem. This has led me to what I believe is the ideal solution for us and our issue. I know that we can’t be the only ones who have a problem getting internet in a campervan, so I’ve decided to share what I’ve learned.

If you're planning to use the XPOL-A0001 for your mobile solution, consider upgrading to the 5G XPOL-1-V2-21 instead. This allows you to future-proof your network and achieve faster speeds from both the 700MHz and 3400MHz frequency bands. Antenna The Poynting XPOL-1is a unique window, wall or pole mountable antenna giving you dual polarisation in a full LTE band omnidirectional antenna. It provides an innovative and future-proof solution for 4G, 3G and 2G networks.

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The most obvious way of getting online is by using a smartphone. However, if the signal in your area is poor or your mobile provider doesn’t cover the area you’re in, then the connection is likely to be patchy and unreliable at best – especially when inside a campervan. (Being in what is basically a metal box, is not the best place to be to get a good mobile signal; the signals strength is dramatically reduced, as most of the signal will be bouncing off the bodywork of the campervan.) What can be done to improve the mobile signal? I hope that you have found this article useful, and have learnt something from my research on how to get the internet in your campervan. The above is laborious but useful if you really want “the best”. Just mounting it on building closest to the base station outdoors (any height) and trying 4 angles in 180-degree sector towards base station will work most of the time if you don’t feel like lots of effort. Even less is purely position antenna front facing base station without any testing and then see how it works – if it works well enough mount like that otherwise spend effort above. Q6: Last question about MIMO, which one of the below would tell me if I am at my optimal MIMO position?