How to increase 4G LTE Home Broadband Router Speeds By My Mate VINCE

Hi there, my name's Vince from my mate Vince comm and in this video today I'm going to show you the difference between using the internal aerial on a mobile broadband router or using an external aerial. So in this house here the customer does have BT as their broadband service provider. The problem is they're so far from the exchange, even though they've done everything correctly, with a special filtered face plate, and they've got a nice wired network they're only getting two or three megabits per second, because they're so far for me exchange, there's not much I can do about that, but what they've done is they've gone down the mobile broadband routes. You now in this video we'll be referring to this as a Rooter in the rest of the world. You will know it's a router over here. We often call it a 4G Rooter, but you will know it as an LTE Rooter we're going to be doing a speed test where it's sighted right now I'm going to do three speed tests and then what I've done is.

We've run this external aerial outside, and we're going to be doing another speed test or three speed test, and we're going to see the difference between using the internal aerials and using the external aerial. Now, when you run the external arrow, you will also have to dial into the router just to tell it to look for the signal on the external aerial, but I will show you that later on in the video now when it comes to these routers here, the best thing to do is find the best spot in the house for it to work. So in this instance, it does actually work well in this cupboard here, which is ideal, because this is where all the network wiring is, and luckily we've got an outside wall just over there. So the aerial goes straight through the outside wall, and it's mounted above the garage, and we have a good reception there. But if it wasn't the case, let's say if the reception here was awful, then what you could do is you could put this, maybe towards the top of the house or if the signals strongest at the front of the house, you could put it in a separate room at the front of the house, and then you could just run a very long, Ethernet, cable, and then you could just have a network switch in this cupboard to connect up all of your equipment or if you didn't want to run cables because it can be a bit of a pain, you can look into a power line adapters.

So that's basically where you're running an Ethernet signal, but you're using the electricity wires in your house to carry that signal to a new location. So let's do three speed tests now take the average, and then we're going to connect up this aerial, and then we're going to take the average there as well I'm just going to quickly show you the aerial on the outside. So if you have a look there, the white cable goes along goes out there and then, basically, it's just drilled out through those holes there. Now you have to be careful when you do this, because unless you're going to be making up your own cables, if you're just buying them cheaply, then they will come with these connectors on the ends here. So when you're passing them through an outside wall cover them up and tape, because you don't want all the brick dust and everything to get in there and possibly damage the connectors.

So if you have a look there, you can see the white cable coming out of the wall, travels up here, and we've just put it on a standard bracket here and that's the back of the aerial there. So it's quite small if you see it in relation to my hand, it's about seven inches high okay. So this is the aerial here. It costs approximately just under eighty UK pounds and if you have a look there, that's the information for it. Now it's an omnidirectional aerial, which basically means it will pick up the signal from all the surrounding directions.

So it's not like a TV area where you have to point it in a certain location. It's going to just pick up the signals, that's bouncing off the walls and everything all around it in this one. We do get the two five meters, cables included and that's what we've used here, but there's huge loss on those cables. So with antenna here we have a two decibel gain, but what you'll find is that across those two five meter cables, we will probably lose the two decibels, so you're kind of at a neutral position. So if you were wanting to start your LTE router further away from an external wall, then you're going to have to look at an external antenna that has a longer cable.

So it's got a bigger gain on it. So you can run a longer cable to this, but the problem with those is a lot of them are directional, so they're, not omnidirectional. You have to point them in the right direction, and you have to have clear line-of-sight. For example, if you're with Vodafone, you need to find out where that Vodafone mast is and pointed at that, and that can be very hard to find out that information. So in a lot of households you won't be able to fit one of them so an easier way to do.

It is to probably fit something like this with just the five-metre cables and then, if you were having this located in a different room, but you wanted all your equipment connecting up here then just run a long Ethernet cable down from here into the network switch. So I have already tried these. You might have seen these before. These are like rabbit-ear aerial, so I've tried these at the back, but in this location here it didn't make a difference whether we have these connected or not. It made no difference.

So at the moment we just got our mobile router connected here with no aerials connected, so we're using the built-in antenna, and I'm going to run three speed tests now, and then I'm going to connect up these two cables to the back of it. So we're using the external antenna, and then we're going under three tests again I'm going to fast-forward through each of the tests, and then we're going to look at the results at the end. Okay. So this is the first test we're going to be using speediest. net.

So we're going to be doing three tests on this now, and I'm testing for download and upload, then I'm going to take an average off them. Okay, so those three results are in now with the built-in antenna, and now we're going to connect up the two cables from the external antenna, and then we're going to run the three test again. Hopefully we will see an improvement and now once there's a fully tighten. What we now have to do is we have to change the settings because at the moment is looking for the inbuilt antenna, and we want to move it to look on the external antenna. So you just need to look around on your roots, are at the back of the bottom, and it will have an IP address so on this particular one.

The IP address is 192.168.1, and then it will have. For example, a username and a password, we then need to go into our web browser so right now we're connected still via an Ethernet cable. So all these tests are being done via an Ethernet cable. So we're not relying on the Wi-Fi between here and here between here and here. It's on a cat, 5e cable, so we're not going to have any loss of speed there, and then we're gonna now change the settings right.

So we've got the IP address up there and the case enter right and at the moment, can you see it's got three bars. So this will also give you an indication. Hopefully when we switch over to the external antenna. Hopefully this might go up to four bars or possibly five bars. So what we need to do is we need to go to settings, and we've got our username and password because nothing's been changed in this one.

It's just a default which is just admin and admin, but yours may be different, and now I'm going to go down to the system on the left-hand side, and I'm going to go down to antenna settings at the bottom. Now it says here at the moment is that you can select an antenna type for your router install the external antennas based on the antenna. Type settings you've configured so at the moment is still on built-in. So we're going to now change this to external antenna, one and two, because we've got both of them connected, so I'm, going to click on that one, and I'm going to go down to here and click apply, and this is success. So now, when we go back to home, let's see if the bars have jumped up there, we go, and can you see now? I've got four bars there rather than a three bar, so you can see that we have got a better, and it's gone to five bars now, so you can see it was four now five, so hopefully this should correspond with a quicker speed.

So now, what we're going to do is we're going to log on out, and we're going to go back to speed test, and we're gonna. Does the three speed test now, what we'll say is when you're doing this? It's a lot easier. If you were to have two people, because right now, we've put the aerial just above the garage roof, because it was easy to just you know, stand up on the garage roof and do that, but you would think if you were to put it on the aerial on top of the house. So you know up by the chimney. You would think that you would get a better signal, but in our case we didn't get a better signal there.

We actually got a better signal on top of the garage roof, so you need to play around with the location. So if you add one person up a ladder, kind of moving it around and then the other person doing a speed test on it or even if you were just to look for this one here connected as an external antenna and then look here, you could see if, for example, one location you had four bars and another patient location, you had five bars. You would know then, to go for the five bars. So, although you can do this on your own, it definitely is easier with two people. Now, when you see in our external antenna, you see that we did a standoff on the wall, so it was fitted away from the wall.

You don't have to do that. We just did that because, we thought. Maybe the signal might be slightly better, but most people will just mount it straight to the wall, and it actually does come with suckers as well. So you can stick it straight onto something like a window, but personally I wouldn't like that as a long-term solution, but it might be good for doing your testing. So if you want to test whether it's better at the front of the house or the back of the house or upstairs or downstairs, then you can just use the suckers.

Stick it to the window, just to get your testing now, I'm, not an expert on the external antennas, but the one we've used is cross polarized, which is good and that's the reason. We've got two cables, one for the vertical and one for the horizontal. If you were to get a very cheap antenna of eBay, you might find that it might just have the vertical or the horizontal, in which case then, you ideally would have to install two antennas for the best possible reception. And if you have a look here remember when we looked here, it did give us the option to do both or just one. So, although it is more expensive, it is worth getting across polarize one and also one from a good manufacturer as well, because some of the cheaper ones that you get they're not made very well on the inside, and then you know, then that you only have to do the job once, and you've done it well, and you've done it right.

First time, alright, now, let's get the results for the other three speed tests. Well, okay, so the results are in I. Just now need to take an average of them. I can already see that it's definitely a lot higher with the external antenna, but let's get a proper result right. Okay, so the results are in.

So these are the ones with the built-in antenna you can see. Let's have a look at downloads. It's seventeen point, nine five, thirty twenty-five! So that's going to average out at twenty-four point: four: nine and then, if we look at the external one is thirty-five. Fifty-three forty-seven and it's average enough. Forty-five point five one.

So this is to down low. So, as you can see, that's one hell of an increase now with speed test. It will constantly vary. You could do ten or twenty tests, and they're all going to be different. So that's why I did three to take the average, and also it will depend upon the mast usage as well.

So if a lot of people are currently working off that mast, downloading stuff, then you're going to find that you're going to get lower speeds. If you were to do this, maybe at six o'clock in the morning or in the middle of the night, you will find that the speeds will increase, so basically they're the results they're so with the built-in one you've got 24 down and 23 up, and it's gone up to forty-five down and 31 up, so you've nearly doubled on the down a good twenty-one higher and on the upload. It's gone up really about a third as much again. Isn't it because 23 is gone up, eight megabits per second, so, as you can see, they good increases, but even if you don't see a huge speed increase, what you should find is that it will be a more stable connection. So, for example, just by the fit in an external antenna, it should make it more stable because remember we went from three bars to five bars, and we dialed into the roof.

So if you find that it's buffering when you're on your BBC player or your Netflix, then hopefully I fit in an external antenna, it will get rid of these issues, and sometimes it might be worth spending a bit of money and taking half a day out to do this setup and then at least then going forward. You know, then, that the signals going to be better now. One thing to bear in mind is that as you're getting quicker speeds, for example, if you were to go from maybe only getting like, maybe two megabits per second up to 10 megabits per second, then you will possibly use more as well, because with a streaming thing like Netflix, it's not gonna, give you high definition. If the signal can't handle it, but yet if you suddenly go from 2 megabits per second up to 10 megabits per second, then it is going to start streaming in high-definition, in which case then you're going to be using up your data allowance wicker. So the problem that this is not actually an answer to the problems you get with your service providers like BT, because with BT and other service providers, often it might be unlimited.

You might not be capped with your data, but normally when it comes to mobile broadband, you are capped. You can be kept very heavily, so, although they are moving that limit higher and higher and higher, you still might only have a limit of 30 gigabytes and if you've got a whole family using this, you could use up that in two or three days quite easily. So it's just something to bear in mind that, as you do improve your signal, you are going to use it quicker depending on what you are streaming now. Please give it a thumbs up if you liked it, and please subscribe for more how-to videos, take care bye now.

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