Roof 4g Ariel for mifi

[Just smiffy]

I’m putting a radio Ariel up on the roof so thought I might as well put a mifi one up there too....

Any recommendations appreciated....

Thanks

 

[DBK]

A few of us have fitted the Poynting MIMO-1 and are very happy with the results.

 

[Just smiffy]

A few of us have fitted the Poynting MIMO-1 and are very happy with the results.

Thanks,
I’ve had a look and it comes up with quite a few types, have you a specific link DBK ..?

 

[Guigsy]

I think most of us have this one:

Solwise -Poynting MiMO LTE vehicle antenna - A-MIMO-1-1 | Solwise Ltd

www.solwise.co.uk

 

[Viennese]

More expensive than the mifi??

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[Silver-Fox]

Thanks,
I’ve had a look and it comes up with quite a few types, have you a specific link DBK ..?

Any more help and he might as well come and fit it ?

How’s life treating you Smiffy ?

 

[DBK]

I think most of us have this one:

Solwise -Poynting MiMO LTE vehicle antenna - A-MIMO-1-1 | Solwise Ltd

www.solwise.co.uk

That's the one. Thanks.

More expensive than the mifi??

Sadly yes. But we've just had a new boiler fitted in the house and the flue is costing as much as the boiler!

 

[Guigsy]

I've had occasions out in Spain and Italy where neither of our phones could hold a signal. Meanwhile the MiFi with the aerial is still let us surf and watch a bit of video.

Note that it can be quite hard to test the aerial's effectiveness. At home in the middle of Birmingham, the MiFi without aerials will happily get 50mbps. With aerials I actually averaged about 49mbps (although probably within experimental error). If you casually plug and unplug the connectors, it often doesn't even look like it's doing much from the number of bars for the signal strength. It's in areas with marginal coverage that it shines. 1-2mbps becomes 10mbps and 'no connection' becomes something you can browse on.

 

[Just smiffy]

Any more help and he might as well come and fit it ?

How’s life treating you Smiffy ?

Absolutely knackered and in pain.... selling the car as we’ve another one coming and washing and polishing yesterday has done my arms in so it’s a couch day today....?

Just hate sitting on my

 

[Lenny HB]

I've had occasions out in Spain and Italy where neither of our phones could hold a signal. Meanwhile the MiFi with the aerial is still let us surf and watch a bit of video.

Note that it can be quite hard to test the aerial's effectiveness. At home in the middle of Birmingham, the MiFi without aerials will happily get 50mbps. With aerials I actually averaged about 49mbps (although probably within experimental error). If you casually plug and unplug the connectors, it often doesn't even look like it's doing much from the number of bars for the signal strength. It's in areas with marginal coverage that it shines. 1-2mbps becomes 10mbps and 'no connection' becomes something you can browse on.

Found the same, up a mountain nither phone can get a signal but can pull in a 3G connection on the MiFi with the aerial.
Also found the biggest improvement was upload speeds which I find very useful.

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[Lenny HB]

More expensive than the mifi??

Yep my Mifi £66, aerial + leads to fit it £150 but well worth it.

 

[Lenny HB]

I’m putting a radio Ariel up on the roof so thought I might as well put a mifi one up there too....

Any recommendations appreciated....

Thanks

Try to keep the cables to 1m as at the frequency they operate at cable loss is very significant.