In reply to a post by andynormancx:

No sign of newer modems beyond cat 6 for the Let range yet though.

Its a shame as many people will test mobile data using a handset and a 2 year old OnePlus Nord (ver 1) manages Category 18 and 4x4 MIMO. It means the dedicated hardware organisations are, for some reason, not able to keep up, and that concerns me. Perhaps the number they sell is too small to invest much in upgrading?

A network wants all users on as high a category as possible, as then everyone benefits, and you need Cat 6 to get the benefits of aggregation (CA) and the higher categories improve efficiency in the communications between the user equipment and the cell site.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

...to be fair router-mods aren't particularly fussy lads and they'll happily take the drill and soldering iron to the latest Huawei CPE Pro 2 routers that are Cat 20+ for that unique 'from the set of Matrix films' look 😂

The outside of your home will look like a cell site

In reply to a post by jchamier:

It means the dedicated hardware organisations are, for some reason, not able to keep up, and that concerns me. Perhaps the number they sell is too small to invest much in upgrading?

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that they can't even easily buy the high end modems they'd need to use. Most of the phones with reasonably up to date modems don't even have separate modems, they tend to be built into the processor package now.

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In reply to a post by Pheasant:

...to be fair router-mods aren't particularly fussy lads and they'll happily take the drill and soldering iron to the latest Huawei CPE Pro 2 routers that are Cat 20+ for that unique 'from the set of Matrix films' look 😂

The outside of your home will look like a cell site

I'd certainly like to see that picture, with a whole array of metre long yagi antennae pointed at the nearest cell tower

In reply to a post by andynormancx:

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that they can't even easily buy the high end modems they'd need to use. Most of the phones with reasonably up to date modems don't even have separate modems, they tend to be built into the processor package now.

True for Android, but Apple is a large manufacturer using standalone modems. Maybe they are buying up all of Qualcomm's production!

In reply to a post by andynormancx:

I'd certainly like to see that picture, with a whole array of metre long yagi antennae pointed at the nearest cell tower

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In reply to a post by jchamier:

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

...to be fair router-mods aren't particularly fussy lads and they'll happily take the drill and soldering iron to the latest Huawei CPE Pro 2 routers that are Cat 20+ for that unique 'from the set of Matrix films' look 😂

The outside of your home will look like a cell site

I'd certainly like to see that picture, with a whole array of metre long yagi antennae pointed at the nearest cell tower

Ughhh. 8 of metre long Yagi’s. That would be utterly yuck. Even 4 cross polarised yagis would be horrific. Worse than the cell site. 🤮

Yeah, I don't think Mikrotik and the like have the same buying power as Apple 😉

Reportedly they want to take more in-house, with wireless chipsets, as they’ve done with Apple Silicon on the main processors…

https://www.macworld.com/article/560257/apple-report...

That much has been clear for at least three years now, they did buy Intel's modem division after all...

https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2019/07/apple-to-a...