Yeah, my plan was to start with a USB extension cable, rather than worrying about RF cable losses. But I don't think I'm going to get better than 50/20 with 2x2 MIMO, right?

50/20 is what I get with CA on band 3 and band 20, the interim pre 5G upgrade for Three is to add Band 32 'L band' as an extra CA download only but at bandwidth 20 Mhz. That will double the download speeds as Band 3 is 15 Mhz and Band 20 5 Mhz on rural masts.

I have a sat dish type aerial due next week to hopefully get better signal and a Mikrotik LHG to aim at a Vodafone mast, Both will then feed into a Draytek dual Wan router for load balancing.

speeds in the last week - low ones at the bottom due to a mast fault
Sun 04/08/2019 18:00 28.08 Mbps 33.51 Mbps 11.12 Mbps 92.40.144.229 Three
Sun 04/08/2019 16:32 28.27 Mbps 27.64 Mbps 9.07 Mbps 92.40.144.229 Three
Sun 04/08/2019 15:34 34.40 Mbps 36.50 Mbps 18.62 Mbps 92.40.144.229 Three
Sun 04/08/2019 10:07 20.05 Mbps 29.62 Mbps 18.84 Mbps 92.40.144.229 Three
Sun 04/08/2019 08:24 43.91 Mbps 35.10 Mbps 24.84 Mbps 92.40.144.229 Three
Sat 03/08/2019 18:01 35.79 Mbps 32.39 Mbps 11.44 Mbps 94.196.129.157 Three
Sat 03/08/2019 12:53 34.68 Mbps 27.31 Mbps 11.99 Mbps 94.196.129.157 Three
Sat 03/08/2019 10:05 26.52 Mbps 32.74 Mbps 18.07 Mbps 94.196.129.157 Three
Sat 03/08/2019 07:43 31.31 Mbps 31.55 Mbps 21.65 Mbps 94.196.129.157 Thre
Wed 31/07/2019 05:20 49.13 Mbps 48.45 Mbps 16.01 Mbps 188.30.102.102 Three
Wed 31/07/2019 02:22 39.04 Mbps 33.74 Mbps 19.75 Mbps 188.30.102.102 Three
Tue 30/07/2019 23:38 28.89 Mbps 33.47 Mbps 12.92 Mbps 188.30.102.102 Three
Tue 30/07/2019 21:17 26.49 Mbps 23.12 Mbps 15.55 Mbps 188.30.102.102 Three
Tue 30/07/2019 20:32 29.77 Mbps 14.30 Mbps 15.77 Mbps 188.30.102.102 Three
Tue 30/07/2019 18:47 20.11 Mbps 18.76 Mbps 7.26 Mbps 188.30.102.102 Thre
Tue 30/07/2019 06:23 43.64 Mbps 44.74 Mbps 20.78 Mbps 92.41.123.199 Three
Mon 29/07/2019 19:52 23.03 Mbps 30.17 Mbps 10.57 Mbps 92.41.123.199 Three
Mon 29/07/2019 19:08 32.49 Mbps 17.78 Mbps 8.73 Mbps 92.41.123.199 Three
Mon 29/07/2019 18:36 33.79 Mbps 21.36 Mbps 11.94 Mbps 92.41.123.199 Three
Sun 28/07/2019 18:04 19.10 Mbps 10.40 Mbps 3.04 Mbps 188.28.92.249 Three
Sun 28/07/2019 11:55 13.03 Mbps 13.69 Mbps 1.09 Mbps 188.31.192.56 Three
Sun 28/07/2019 09:47 1.24 Mbps 1.11 Mbps 2.15 Mbps 188.28.119.193 Three
Sun 28/07/2019 07:51 16.85 Mbps 9.91 Mbps 2.90 Mbps 188.28.119.193 Three
Sat 27/07/2019 12:39 1.20 Mbps 0.45 Mbps 0.52 Mbps 188.31.149.135 Three
Sat 27/07/2019 12:33 7.90 Mbps 5.47 Mbps 0.86 Mbps 188.31.149.135 Three
Sat 27/07/2019 11:43 0.39 Mbps 0.70 Mbps 1.49 Mbps 188.31.149.135 Three
Sat 27/07/2019 08:31 19.25 Mbps 19.50 Mbps 3.72 Mbps 188.31.149.135 Three
Sat 27/07/2019 08:10 2.86 Mbps 2.70 Mbps 2.27 Mbps 188.31.20.75 Three
Sat 27/07/2019 08:02 1.18 Mbps 1.92 Mbps 1.75 Mbps 188.31.20.75 Three

5G is going to be using higher frequencies than 4G (in some cases much higher). Which means you'll need to be closer to masts to get the same signal strength as on 4G.

If you're only getting 20MB from the mast over 4G you must be a reasonable distance from it (assuming you're on band 3), I doubt you'll be seeing any improvement from 5G on the same mast.

5G is more about bring more capacity to congested urban areas.

Ah, I see you're managing 50MB now. My point about 5G not be aimed at improving rural coverage still stands though

L band show work well on rural masts, 5G at low frequency would work too, just have to wait and see. Triple and quad Wan routers are available if not. Never going back to BT.

Thanks for the info. The 1500 MHz band will pass me by until I upgrade from my cheapo stick, which only supports DD800, 900, 1800, 2100 and 2600 on LTE.

To be clear, this location is only "rural" in the sense that it's an uneconomic area for fibre, thanks to a quirk of geography. The two closest masts are each less than a mile away and serve populations that make me believe they'll be upgraded fairly soon.

You opened the thread talking about rural ADSL and when I was commenting you'd been reporting 20MB 4G downloads, hence me assuming you really were rural and some distance from the mast

Edited by andynormancx (Sun 04-Aug-19 20:59:25)

160Mbps. Wow!