Possible Slow 4G LTE fix

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With a compatible router, external antennas, and a tower that broadcasts the B38 band, you can get the "Up to 10Mbps" speeds.

Rain operates on B3 and B38.
B3 is the default and is always congested, which is why most users get terrible speeds.

B38 is less congested, however does not penetrate as easily as B3. Which is why external antennas are required for better signal.

I'm by no means an expert on this, but with help from @cavedog and @jbroo , I managed to resolve the issue.

Router: Huawei B525s-65a
Antenna: Poynting Xpol6
B38 tower distance: 3,36 km (clear line of sight)

Video of how I resolved it:
 
Nice guide, thanks for the mention. You're lucky you got good results on B38. My results were less impressive.
 
Thanks for this buddy ...

I lot of people don’t no about the 38 band ...

But the more you guys put it out there ... they get the idea of how to make it work ...

I have been struggling with my Rain sim for now long I have it and it should be over about 2 years now ... the best speeds I had was 2 megabytes that’s the best I go but nothing more nothing else ... hopefully I’ll fix this ... soon ... I’ll keep you guys posted ... i did however test the band change with the router at work with a rain sim and I got 78mbps ... that’s hectic stuff right there but at home I a red light ... so hopefully I’ll get and antenna soon to see if this helps me ...
 
Web Or What said:
With a compatible router, external antennas, and a tower that broadcasts the B38 band, you can get the "Up to 10Mbps" speeds.

Rain operates on B3 and B38.
B3 is the default and is always congested, which is why most users get terrible speeds.

B38 is less congested, however does not penetrate as easily as B3. Which is why external antennas are required for better signal.

I'm by no means an expert on this, but with help from @cavedog and @jbroo , I managed to resolve the issue.

Router: Huawei B525s-65a
Antenna: Poynting Xpol6
B38 tower distance: 3,36 km (clear line of sight)

Video of how I resolved it:
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Nice guide.

I'm using Tp-link Mr600. Will this guide work on it?
 
velin98 said:
Nice guide.

I'm using Tp-link Mr600. Will this guide work on it?
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The router supports the correct bands. As far as I can tell there is no way to force that router to a certain band though.

Any way to force 2600MHZ band on Archer MR600 - Home Network Community

Hi, I have an Archer MR600 connected to two external Poynting antennas, my 4g network operates on multiple bands, with 2600MHZ being considerably fastest (200mb). The router always connects to the 1800MHZ 4g band which only offers aro
community.tp-link.com community.tp-link.com

Apparently, there's beta firmware that allows you to select bands on your particular router. Not sure where you would find it or perhaps if the firmware is out of beta and you can simply install the latest firmware.

Archer MR600 4G BANDS - Home Network Community

Where is the update firmware to choose specific 4g bands and also on 4g+ bands Ď„Îż choose 2 bands together put this on first priority And in Network mode addnew 4G+ mode only pls
community.tp-link.com community.tp-link.com
 
velin98 said:
Nice guide.

I'm using Tp-link Mr600. Will this guide work on it?
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netstrider said:
The router supports the correct bands. As far as I can tell there is no way to force that router to a certain band though.

Any way to force 2600MHZ band on Archer MR600 - Home Network Community

Hi, I have an Archer MR600 connected to two external Poynting antennas, my 4g network operates on multiple bands, with 2600MHZ being considerably fastest (200mb). The router always connects to the 1800MHZ 4g band which only offers aro
community.tp-link.com community.tp-link.com
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This beta firmware allows you to manually set bands.
I have it on my router and it works fine.

Archer MR600(EU) V1 - BETA Firmware - Allowing selection of 4G+bands for Archer MR600 manually - TP-Link SOHO Community (tp-link.com)

https://static.tp-link.com/2020/202004/20200420/Archer_MR600v1_1.1.0_0.9.1_[200417-rel75138]_up_boot_2020-04-20_08.44.31.zip (tp-link.com)
 
chakniks said:
This beta firmware allows you to manually set bands.
I have it on my router and it works fine.

Archer MR600(EU) V1 - BETA Firmware - Allowing selection of 4G+bands for Archer MR600 manually - TP-Link SOHO Community (tp-link.com)

https://static.tp-link.com/2020/202004/20200420/Archer_MR600v1_1.1.0_0.9.1_[200417-rel75138]_up_boot_2020-04-20_08.44.31.zip (tp-link.com)
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I'm also running same beta firmware. I tried changing bands but no luck for me. I guess the cell tower I'm connected to supports B3...
 
velin98 said:
I'm also running same beta firmware. I tried changing bands but no luck for me. I guess the cell tower I'm connected to supports B3...
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Yep, tower is most likely running B3 only.

Maybe Rain could have an option to display available band(b3/b38/41) for the tower in the optimizer.
@rain_mobile @rain_networks
 
@cavedog, @jbroo, @Web Or What can you help me?

I have the MR600 v2 through Supersonic. My signal strength is crap, 25%. Connecting my pointing booster antenna it gives me 85% but even with the stronger signal speeds keep dropping low. And I am pointing to the towers up the road at Lanseria Airport. Which are supposed to be high output MTN towers. The firmware version is still 00001. First version. No updates of the firmware on the ZA tplink site. But if I switch to the global en tplink. They already have 3 upgraded firmware versions available. Typically ZA is always lagging behind.

I have read that the global firmwares are compatible with the ZA version of the MR600 v2 that I have, but it might interfere with my ISP settings and there is no update for me to be sure that it won't affect it. Has anyone given it a try? I am scared of voiding my warranty especially since I have only had if for a month. Check out the link below to see the mentioned available global firmwares.

There is also a v2 beta v2 available released 16 Jan 2022.

Global EN V2 Firmwares
 
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Sorry man, but I know nothing about this router. Generally you can load any firmware you want, so find a copy of your current firmware and keep it. Load the new firmware and test. If you're not happy with it, load your original firmware again.
 
jbroo said:
Sorry man, but I know nothing about this router. Generally you can load any firmware you want, so find a copy of your current firmware and keep it. Load the new firmware and test. If you're not happy with it, load your original firmware again.
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Will give it a try.
 
JayBase, did you flash your router with the latest (EU) firmware? I'm in the same boat as you and would love to know the outcome...
 
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