![]() ![]() Zoom says that you need at least 3Mbps for HD video. The video worked but it definitely wasn’t high def. Oh, and to answer that nagging question that’s out there, I’ve not seen any way to put the gateway in bridge mode and use my own router. ![]() I might be able to squeeze a few more bits out of the sky. Maybe one day I’ll get a longer pole and try to get the booster up higher. I can continue streaming all of my tv content and I have enough upload bandwidth to work from home. But for the area, it’s more than sufficient. If my house weren’t in a little valley I’d probably be getting a lot better. And the gateway is still saying I have a “Weak” signal. Not a massive increase, but a very meaningful one for work purposes. Long story short (not that short I guess) the booster, pointed in precisely the right direction, allowed me to maintain the 50Mbps download and increased my upload from 1.9 Mbps to 10 Mbps. I proceed to spend about an hour slightly moving the antenna by 1° and running a speed test on my phone each time. $400 later, I climb up on my roof, tear off the old TV antenna and attach the booster to the antenna post. ![]() So I do some research and pick up a WeBoost Home Room cell signal booster. Problem is, I’m only getting 1.5 - 1.9 Mbps upload, which could be a problem with all our work zoom calls. It’s getting a poor signal (2/5 bars), but it’s still delivering 50Mbps download speeds. The new Nokia 5G gateway is delivered and setup. This was a few weeks ago.įast forward to today. Until then, I hadn’t heard at all about T-Mobile’s fixed wireless, so I hastily google other options and find it’s available at my new address. I literally get the call while movers are packing the U-Haul with all of our stuff. To my dismay, they can’t get a signal due to the topography. So we buy a house next door to our family, and the day after we close on the new house I have AT&T come out. Nothing near what I was getting on cable at my precious house, but good enough to get by. They claimed 25Mbps down, but actually performed closer to 13 down and 10 up. When we first thought about moving I discovered AT&T fixed wireless, which was new to the area. Until recently, all anyone could get was satellite internet which produced about 1Mbps down. In this part of the country there’s no cable, and no DSL service. Working remotely, internet quality is very important. We just moved out to the country to be closer to family. Update: I’m returning the booster because I discovered that if I position the gateway facing the precisely correct direction, I can get as good or better performance than I did with the $400 booster. ![]()
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