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Author Topic: Any suggestions for a good / low cost 4G LTE Router?  (Read 18186 times)

cancunia

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Any suggestions for a good / low cost 4G LTE Router?
« on: October 26, 2022, 04:09:48 PM »
I'm thinking about moving on from my slow-ish 3-4Mbps Long Line ADSL to something a bit faster on 4G. Following some tests I did on  an older 4G router, I think I'm unlikely to get much more than 28Mbps down but as that's way better than what I have now  it may be worth a bit more investigation.
In order to get a good data rate & build in a bit of future proofing, I'm thinking about something in the Cat4/5 area as a minimum.

Suggestions welcome;
Thanks
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Chrysalis

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Re: Any suggestions for a good / low cost 4G LTE Router?
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2022, 11:38:28 AM »
I googled for this recently, most that were on the generic "best mobile broadband routers" pages seemed to have one or two ethernet ports.  I was trying to find something designed to be a modem in bridge mode to use alongside a high end firewall device.

My search stopped though when I noticed EE seems to have no non carrier grade NAT options.
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dee.jay

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Re: Any suggestions for a good / low cost 4G LTE Router?
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2022, 04:29:09 PM »
Category 4 I think is limited to about 70Mbit - I built one with a pcengines pfSense box with a 4G LTE modem in it and it topped out at that.

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cancunia

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Re: Any suggestions for a good / low cost 4G LTE Router?
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2022, 05:25:54 PM »
Quote from: dee.jay on October 27, 2022, 04:29:09 PM
Category 4 I think is limited to about 70Mbit - I built one with a pcengines pfSense box with a 4G LTE modem in it and it topped out at that.


Maybe my mistake, I got the info from the following, but could have misinterpreted..
https://www.cablefree.net/wirelesstechnology/4glte/lte-ue-category-class-definitions/
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Re: Any suggestions for a good / low cost 4G LTE Router?
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2022, 06:44:54 PM »
CAT4 doesn't support Carrier aggregation.
CAT6 is the minimum for carrier aggregation.
Even if you only have a single mast, being able to connect to two frequency bands even if they are the same frequency will provide a faster service.

Are you looking for an indoor or outdoor modem?
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cancunia

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Re: Any suggestions for a good / low cost 4G LTE Router?
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2022, 08:50:54 AM »
Quote from: meritez on October 27, 2022, 06:44:54 PM
CAT4 doesn't support Carrier aggregation.
CAT6 is the minimum for carrier aggregation.
Even if you only have a single mast, being able to connect to two frequency bands even if they are the same frequency will provide a faster service.

Are you looking for an indoor or outdoor modem?

Thanks for the info, although I'm fairly sure that Three is only on band 20 where I live, others may have more so it's a good point. As I got a good enough speed indoors, I'm thinking about a self contained indoor router / modem.
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