I suspect the rabbit ears have a wider beamwidth, i.e. less forgiving on the direction, compared to the '88dbi' mimo.

For the '88dbi', if my direction is off by 15-20degrees ish, i loose 1 bar.

This is 61a model.
You need 22a model.

If you want to buy prepaid sim, then try with your phone is enough. Dont spend so much for modem later cannot use.

Any digi sim is ok.

Try with network cell info app

Like i said.
Use network cell info.

Most of the towers that it pointed is accurate within 10-20meter

Can ask bro prosibu for beam patterns and location.


Network Cell Info uses the database from unwiredlabs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_ID

Other than locations for MVNOs and Unifi/webe, I am able to get pretty accurate locations of towers around my housing area in Penang, and my hometown in Kedah.

Most of the time if I want to know the exact location, I will drive near the base station and start scanning with Network Signal Guru. I did that while trying to aim the MIMO antenna.

Yagi are a hit or miss if you don't know what you are ordering.
Many fake stuff listed.

Bought a TDJ branded for B3-1800 MHz. It works fine, but since it is just 1 Antenna, I need another to get MIMO. It still can't beat the 4G MIMO LTE '88dbi'

The best is the one listed in Garage Sales, Metteor Link, but the seller no longer bring in. It is AMY brand.
https://ameison.en.alibaba.com/ MOQ is pretty huge.

Saw some lintratek brand Yagi, seem to be nice, but couldn't be bothered to spend the money on it.

Here's one guy's finding on Yagis
https://asdfghjkl.me.uk/blog/antennas/

How long you need to extend?
Best to do power extension of your CPE and connect to the CPE via LAN.

You can look for RG58 or RG174. Basically 50 Ohm coax, but those 2 are common.
RG58 is better, but more expensive. If you find those with N-connector and you add adapter, you will be adding more loses. Coax extension is not like power cable or Lan cable extension. Any length or converter introduces losses. Even just 5 meters extension will add a lot of loss

Rule of thumb: Shorter antenna cable = less signal loss.
You can't get as good as if your mount it with shorter coax compared to longer coax.

Example:
Let say right now with existing setup you bring your Antenna outdoor and test the speed. You found out it is good. If you add an coax extension, the speed will not be as good.

Worse case, you get less speed compared to leaving the antenna indoors.
Best case, you prove me wrong and get very good speed increase due to your house being a mobile dark spot.


Can do such connection to your android box.
Modem -> Cat5e-> Switch/WIFI repeater ->Cat5e -> Android box

Digi only supports B3+B7 at the moment
The cheapest device is AC790s

I am using Huawei e5186-22a
Buy from eBay or Taobao.
Or there is a FB group called Digi infinite where there are a lot of sellers.

Anything extra is for future proofing.

LTE only. Not LTE-A


Use your phone + download the App called Network signal info.
If you got a rooted phone. use together with Network signal guru app.

Note the values of RSSNR, RSRP, RSRQ as indicators for signal strength.
ECI is the CellID of the base station. Each base station has a unique CellID.

Go to the map tab and it should show you which tower you are connected to.
There are a few towers in your vicinity. Drive around your house to view the physical telco tower locations. Hint: signal strength improves if you are near the tower. RSRP of around -50 to -60dBm indicates that you are very near.

Trial and error to find the best location in your house with the best speed. Some are indoors, some are outdoors. Some may need to place on roof, others just place on balcony. Sometimes windows closed is better than windows opened. Concrete house corner has some signal reflection capability that improves signal strength.

Takes some trial and error.

I stay at 19th floor.

Digi on very good days i can get 20-30mbps. Typically 15mbps

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Feb 7 2018, 07:31 PM

Any speed improvement from using M1 vs ac790?

During weekends i only run B3. Feel like e5186 also overkill already.

I already offload my local network routing/QoS to DD-WRT router. My E5186 is just a dumb modem.

What about speed improvement?

just want to judge quantitatively the speed difference

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Feb 13 2018, 02:51 PM

Not working for p2p download

Your tower is congested then.
Digi deprioritized infinite traffic.

Wired > wireless especially when we talk about fiber. I'd pay 199 for 30mbps if that was the last choice i have. But i onyl have streamyx 4mbps so there's that.

2 years later we will still be looking at lte-a/lte-pro technology.
100mbps rm100 is not possible for wireless.1 base station can only support so much bandwidth

700MHz is not for speed. Its more for coverage. Dont expect 700MHz to perform any magic. 5-10Mbps on single 700mhz band without CA would be a realistic expectation.

Depends on area and base station load.
If you stay in Middle of nowhere, or your area have good Unifi/Time coverage, and most people didn't bother switching to Digi, then good for you.
Fruitie and chuah looks to be staying in high dense area, and perhaps more people switching to Infinite.


Probably some freshgrad MBA in Digi came up with this plan after looking at network utilization, but didn't analyze the data properly.
Now it backfired and Digi management have fire burning butts.
Because infinite plans like this, if you discontinue, then surely kena big backlash. Have to publish video for 'kasi chan'

Time and time again, there are examples showing unlimited plans cannot work in long term.
Look at how P1/Webe , Umobile crash and burned

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Feb 26 2018, 01:04 PM

For chuah, he shared that he is able to get decent speeds at other areas.
Just the place he stay is down to 5Mbps. Which is likely due to congestion rather than Digi aiming for his head

Stats are perfect.
try B3 only or B7 only. See if it makes a difference.



This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Feb 26 2018, 01:47 PM

Digi so free purposely aim his sim card to lock him away meh?
Like that he just have to register a sim with a different name, then can enjoy back full speed already.

In seriousness though, the base station that he usually used is either removed/damage/under maintenance/ or just aimed to another direction, causing him unable to lock to the preferred base station. Given that Digi's average 4G speed is less than fantastic, constantly getting 100Mbps in a dense area suggests that the base station is under utilized. The most likely scenario is that the base station was adjusted to cover a different area.

Chuah's area in USM is less dense, but the area around USM is densely populated.