The price to pay for open source

Hopefully it can last me for a bit, but from the reviews, some mod might be needed for better signal from this unit and better cooling as well

Hi guys, if i get the Zyxel 3 UK NR5103e from shopee should I get the external antennas too or the modem is enough? Gonna be using it in a condo

try without first ...

hi all,
I am facing some issues with my UHome 5g using deco X50.
On 4g connection is stable and no drops in data.
On 5g connections seems to be dropping and unstable.

Any idea on what troubleshooting can be done?

Trying to lock band but unable to do so

This is due to bad implementation by Malaysian telcos of choosing to deploy NSA 5G networks in the country.

The ideal type of 5G network was supposed to be standalone type (SA) which only forces your device to connect to 5G and nothing else.

Reason why NSA sucks is because your modem tend to choose the stronger signal band and fallback to 4G in your area. Meaning your 5G band signal in your area is weaker than your 4G network signals present.

For a true standalone 5G network when you place a 5G SIM into your phone/device, even when you move to an area where 4G signals are stronger than 5G signal is will refused fallback to 4G because the telco restricts your device from connecting to any 4G networks that are available.

The drawback is costs and the inability to share resources for both 4G/5G networks when you choose to implement a dedicated standalone(SA) 5G network.

Your solution is to force your device to connect to ONLY 5G does it have such option?

I tried to select bands manually but it's not showing anything when I deselect Auto.
Is it a tplink thing then?

The solution is to lock band to a strong 5g signal?
So if I'm unable to lock, is it a tplink issue?
What can I do to solve this moving forward?
Will changing to NR5103e help?

Same thing happens using tplink Aginet app on my Tplink NX510v, when select manual it doesn't show anything.. In the end i just left it at AUTO and forget it..

I don't mind doing that but at 5G Auto, the connection is unstable.
Keeps dropping.
Devices behave like there is no internet connectivity.
It was not like this when I started using about a month ago.

got option to lock B28+N78? Then it should make it lock to 5G instead of falling back to 4G due to signal strength.

On 4g I can see a list of Bands to select.
On 5g no such option.

Don't be misled that your LTE connection icon is shown for B28(700MHz APT700) is actually a 5G band.

ITU-T insists that B28 is not a true 5G band but instead a Advanced LTE/Pre-5G band so your modem shows its LTE connection. It is actually a very good signal which no other 4G signals will fallback since it's 700MHz. Closest to is is B5 which is at 850MHz.

Only N78 signal will be shown as 5G connection when connected. But it'll be very weak unless you sit next to the gNodeB like in-building coverage.
N78 is 3.8GHz so it'll be very weak and can't travel very far with good wall penetration. Should you be able to aggregate it with N78 you'll have added capacity for future upload and gigabit capacity but very hard to meet its small coverage unless they spend billions to build lots of pico nodes.

This post has been edited by petpenyubobo: Nov 17 2023, 03:04 PM

Most 4G modems(Even Cat6) won't be able to connect to B28.

Unless you have a draft-5G device such as Huawei B818/latest 4G phones with most recent chipsets (stand to be corrected).

Should I be looking at changing my modem?
If I get the Zyxel 3 UK NR5103e, would I be able to lock the bands and solve this issue?
or anything similar?

Nothing wrong with your modem, as what the other forumer said just set to manual band selection mode and select only B28 for LTE and N78 for NSA 5G then SAVE.
Reboot your modem and you are good to go.



At this screen just choose manual and save your settings. Reboot your router should be connected.

B28 is actually 5G band but ITU-T standards wants modem suppliers to list it as LTE instead of 5G band.

Interesting when you mentioned B818.

Do you have any links discussing the 5G connection on this router?

Thanks in advance.

That’s the issue I’m facing.
I can’t select manual to lock band.
The bands you see are only visible when I select 4g.
When I select 5G, the list is empty.

Yes it's disguised as 4G as said. Choose B28 ONLY in 4G you're actually connecting to a 5G network.

Save and Reboot you will be connected to DNB 5G network but with a LTE network indicator.

All the later draft-5G modems and CAT18 above LTE modems with band selection has B28 and can support CA upto 1600Mbps.

olax wifi5, yeacomm or gteniq


the band setting is
5G only / 5G SA / 5G NSA
The setting not exist mean modem not able to lock 5G only network mode

somebody ask and no answer
https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/631756

tplink selling point is 5G whole home Mesh WiFi 6 ecosystem

So what to do ?
put modem near windows and point to the 5G tower direction