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I'm not 100% sure about the antenna or the actual frequencies that RAIN uses, but I can tell you Otto is a legit company that I have purchased from before.

You will need to get a suitable adapter for going from 2×SMA-Male to 2xTS9 as the B618 uses TS9 connectors. Hope this helps.

Also, remember to log in to the router configuration page and set the device to use external antennas once you connected the antenna.
 
According to the datasheet, it'll cover 1710-2700 MHz. It should work for RAIN (1800 and 2600 MHz).

Correct about the adapters as your B618 has TS9 connectors on the back. You can get those from Takealot.
 
silkenphoenixx said:
According to the datasheet, it'll cover 1710-2700 MHz. It should work for RAIN (1800 and 2600 MHz).

Correct about the adapters as your B618 has TS9 connectors on the back. You can get those from Takealot.
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I can't find TS9 adapters on Takealot
 
Check out GeeWiz as well. Solid pricing on the Poynting antenna, and good service.
 
DominionZA said:
There is a guy selling poynting xpol-6-10m antennas on Carb for R1k each. I grabbed a second one for my Telkom router.

Last I saw, he had 6 or 7 left.

Edit: https://carbonite.co.za/showthread.php?t=176983
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I have one of these from my previous Telkom setup, and I am just not getting any better download speeds, is there anyting I am not doing correctly? I have emailed Rain and they told me to point the antenna to the east. Doesn't help. Still just getting over 10Mbps.

If I move the modem to my kitchen It jumps to over 30Mbps. Any suggestions?
 
7ty7 said:
I have one of these from my previous Telkom setup, and I am just not getting any better download speeds, is there anyting I am not doing correctly? I have emailed Rain and they told me to point the antenna to the east. Doesn't help. Still just getting over 10Mbps.

If I move the modem to my kitchen It jumps to over 30Mbps. Any suggestions?
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I got a massive boost when I got mine setup. RAIN however gave me completely incorrect info on where the antenna had to point. I had to discover it myself (which was simple anyway).

I originally had my antenna hooked up to the B315 with Telkom, then used it for RAIN when I got that. Now I am using Telkom for the midnight 500GB to save my RAIN data, so needed the second antenna. Still need to climb on the roof and mount it though.
 
Remember that if you put an antenna on and point it in the wrong direction, you can actually get *worse* signal than if you had no antenna at all. So getting it in the right direction is critical.

This sort of antenna trades a lack of sensitivity behind it to improve its sensitivity in the direction it's pointing, as opposed to a simple monopole (like your car's radio antenna) which is sensitive in 360 degrees around it but not for example directly above it.
 
racer said:
4 bars signal mostly, and speeds vary between 30 and 35Mbps
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Yeah, you probably won't get much from that little thing. I don't think it's a dual-connector one anyway from the looks of it, but I may be wrong. Those ports are for connecting an outside antenna via a coax cable. You may see a bit of an improvement with a big outside one but I doubt it's worth the trouble.
 
m.zakariyya.g said:
Good thing about this model is it doesn't have to be mounted externally, and guy said it should have at least 3 times the gain my internal B618 huawei antenna can manage
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Just bearing in mind that antenna gain (dBi) is a logarithmic unit - adding 3 dBi means that it's double the gain. So just to calibrate your expectations.

Based on the datasheet, that one should give you some improvement, it's worth a try. You will still need SMA-TS9 adapters though.
 
Rain told me the local transmitter is on a 12 floor block of flats about 600m from here. I got hold of the building manager, he knew nothing about it and we went onto the roof, there is nothing there. It is however, by far the highest point around

The Huawei router has two TS-9 sockets on the side and both must be used for a dipole aerial. You do lose 1db via a SMA-TS9 adaptor, so it worthwhile getting an external antenna with at least a 7m twin flying lead with a TS-9 plugs
 
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