Antenna installation and alignment

Hi guys,

I'm wondering if anyone can give some insight into my issue..

I got the Telkom Uncapped LTE deal and put up the Poynting XPOL-0006 that Telkom supplied with my B315s this afternoon. As I live on the ground floor, I purchased 2 extra 5m extension cables from Poynting.

When I climbed onto the roof, I could actually see the tower, according to the measure your land app, it's 380m from where I placed the antenna. I thought yeeha, gonna get amazing stats and speeds- this was not the case at all. Best I could get off this tower was
-84dB and 16 SNR (depending on the angle of the antenna)
Best speedtest I could get was 8-9 megabits/s


I then decided to turn the antenna in a few different directions to see what I could get..
I turned the antenna in the opposite direction, pointing to no mans lands and managed to get
-63dB and 30 SNR
Yet the download speeds were still useless.... best I could get was an inconsistent 10 -13 megabit/s
I've currently left the antenna pointing at this tower.

Could it possibly be that the router which was supplied is weak? The reason that I mention this is that I had Telkom come out to do a home trial and the guys managed to get 35+ Megabit/s with the flappy paddle's on a B593...

Can anyone also shed light on why I'm getting such useless stats from the tower which I can see? There are currently only 52 users signed up on this tower for the uncapped lte deal (I realise that other users are still using this tower) but think that it can't be that congested.

Any advice would greatly be appreciated
 
marlin178 said:
Best I could get off this tower was -84dB and 16 SNR (depending on the angle of the antenna)
Best speedtest I could get was 8-9 megabits/s

I then decided to turn the antenna in a few different directions to see what I could get..
I turned the antenna in the opposite direction, pointing to no mans lands and managed to get -63dB and 30 SNR
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Your speed during rush hours could be affected by traffic, see reports in Telkom section, people complain.


Signal could be reflected from the same tower or a different one. You can verify by comparing Cell_ID using this tool: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...x-for-new-Huawei-HiLink-devices-(E5186-B315s)
Watch this thread, it will be updated with recent finding. You will be able to test signal on each antenna separately and MIMO operation parameters. For now I can tell you that your signal is very good.

How your speed compare using B315s internal antenna?
 
sajunky said:
Your speed during rush hours could be affected by traffic, see reports in Telkom section, people complain.


Signal could be reflected from the same tower or a different one. You can verify by comparing Cell_ID using this tool: http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...x-for-new-Huawei-HiLink-devices-(E5186-B315s)
Watch this thread, it will be updated with recent finding. You will be able to test signal on each antenna separately and MIMO operation parameters. For now I can tell you that your signal is very good.

How your speed compare using B315s internal antenna?
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Thanks for the input- I'll have a look at that thread and utility.

With the internal antenna I get -85db and 25SNR and download speeds over wifi are about 3 mb/s slower when compared to the external antenna and it's picking up the same tower as the external antenna is.

I managed to get 20mb/s today (supposedly off peak period) when connected via Ethernet.
I'm quite disappointed with the performance..

Any other advice would really be appreciated
 
I think tower is overloaded, as you get 20-30Mbps off peak. 50 users is quite a lot if everybody is downloading movies.
 
Maybe the wrong thread to ask this. But on mdma the cellID that is displayed when you connect to different towers. Is it the antenna it self's ID or the tower?

Meaning that if I have a tower with 5 antennas around it will I have 5 diffrent possible cellID's for that tower if I move around it or is cell ID = 1 tower
 
DTBA said:
Maybe the wrong thread to ask this. But on mdma the cellID that is displayed when you connect to different towers. Is it the antenna it self's ID or the tower?

Meaning that if I have a tower with 5 antennas around it will I have 5 diffrent possible cellID's for that tower if I move around it or is cell ID = 1 tower
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I would assume that it would identify by radio/bts/BTU rather than the antenna
 
DTBA said:
Meaning that if I have a tower with 5 antennas around it will I have 5 diffrent possible cellID's for that tower if I move around it or is cell ID = 1 tower
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It can be different, but in SA networks it is established practice to give different sector antennas on the same tower a number which only differ on the last (decimal) digit. What more, the last digit usually indicate orientation. By example 1 - North, 2 - East, etc...

Cell ID is also linked to the technology. The same tower transmit one Cell_ID for 2G, another for 3G or LTE. It is what we do observe. From the spectrum management perspective if Cell_ID reflects radio frequency band, it would be a natural assignment.
 
sajunky said:
It can be different, but in SA networks it is established practice to give different sector antennas on the same tower a number which only differ on the last (decimal) digit. What more, the last digit usually indicate orientation. By example 1 - North, 2 - East, etc...

Cell ID is also linked to the technology. The same tower transmit one Cell_ID for 2G, another for 3G or LTE. It is what we do observe. From the spectrum management perspective if Cell_ID reflects radio frequency band, it would be a natural assignment.
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ahh thank you :) my sir Now I understand
 
sajunky said:
I think tower is overloaded, as you get 20-30Mbps off peak. 50 users is quite a lot if everybody is downloading movies.
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Thanks for the input- I've requested that the antenna installers come out to "install" the antenna but will ask them to check my installation when they arrive.

I have positioned the antenna in such a way that I can swivel the pole 360 degrees with no real obstructions- perhaps I should mount a servo of sort and remotely move the antenna from my unit :D
 
marlin178 said:
I have positioned the antenna in such a way that I can swivel the pole 360 degrees with no real obstructions- perhaps I should mount a servo of sort and remotely move the antenna from my unit :D
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It will rotate with direction of wind, till it burns a hole in the roof and drop inside. :)

On the serious note, make sure they install proper earth to the mast. People frequently forget about it. It gives better connection and gives some protection against lightning.
 
sajunky said:
It will rotate with direction of wind, till it burns a hole in the roof and drop inside. :)

On the serious note, make sure they install proper earth to the mast. People frequently forget about it. It gives better connection and gives some protection against lightning.
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Concrete Roof ;)

I'll earth the mast myself in the interim.... thanks for this!
 
Fellows, Im intrigued by the detail provided in the post on dish installation. Better then then the generic "How to..." found via a google search. Thanks a stack!!
 
Hi guys,
Over the past few evenings, I've noticed that the SINR on my Huawei B315 with Poynting External Antenna XPOL006 from Telkom Mobile has dropped from 23 down to 19-20.
Is there a specific reason that could cause this as I've noticed that it's had somewhat of an impact on the performance. The RSRP has remained quite stable at -73.
Any input would be great..
 
marlin178 said:
Hi guys,
Over the past few evenings, I've noticed that the SINR on my Huawei B315 with Poynting External Antenna XPOL006 from Telkom Mobile has dropped from 23 down to 19-20.
Is there a specific reason that could cause this as I've noticed that it's had somewhat of an impact on the performance. The RSRP has remained quite stable at -73.
Any input would be great..
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Did you install LED lights?
 
Some say the EMI from LED lights is a problem but I don't know. Especially in your case where the antenna is outside...
 
Hi all,
So the performance on my Telkom LTE Uncapped (using the Poynting XPOL006) dropped drastically.
When I logged into the router to check the stats, I 1 noticed that the stats were ranging between: SINR 12 - 19db and fluctuating quite a bit when I tried to refresh this yet the RSRP remains quite stable at -75.
The 2nd thing that I noticed is that the tower ID had changed and I suspect that this is the reason why the performance has gone down.
I'm going onto my roof with laptop and ethernet cable but can anyone explain why the tower would change and provide any advice?
 
marlin178 said:
Hi all,
So the performance on my Telkom LTE Uncapped (using the Poynting XPOL006) dropped drastically.
When I logged into the router to check the stats, I 1 noticed that the stats were ranging between: SINR 12 - 19db and fluctuating quite a bit when I tried to refresh this yet the RSRP remains quite stable at -75.
The 2nd thing that I noticed is that the tower ID had changed and I suspect that this is the reason why the performance has gone down.
I'm going onto my roof with laptop and ethernet cable but can anyone explain why the tower would change and provide any advice?
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Hi all, it appears that Telkom have locked me to one tower- no matter which direction I point the aerial, the cell ID remains the same. I would assume that this is the case as the Poynting XPOL006 is directional.

When I previously tried to turn the aerial previous, I connected to different towers... :mad:
 
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