Thank you

Well, I am not sure, how did I do that, but I was able to connect via WiFi. But the speed is like 10x worse than straight connected via ethernet. 50mbps vs 5mbps. Is that router so bad?

and yet another question - I am able to access to my antena RouterOS via browser using its ip address 192.168.88.1, but router has the same adress, and I am not able to connect to that router. How to solve that issue? I am on Mac, I dont have any windows computer, so I am using Winbox4Mac (via wine, which is not reliable), and it crashes once I log in my wAP...

and yet another question - I am able to access to my antena RouterOS via browser using its ip address 192.168.88.1, but router has the same adress, and I am not able to connect to that router. How to solve that issue? I am on Mac, I dont have any windows computer, so I am using Winbox4Mac (via wine, which is not reliable), and it crashes once I log in my wAP...

Hello Roberts and thank you very much for your message ! Indeed I didn’t find much video in English about this antenna, when I baught it last year, so that’s why I wanted to create a video in English. About your question: from what I understand, both your LHG kit and your wAP are running routerOS and are both presenting the same default IP address. So you should change the IP address of one of them, via Winbox (using a wired connection). You can find documentation and videos of Mikrotik about how to change this IP address (just be careful not to change the WAN interface IP address, just the other one). I think otherwise, if both routers have the same IP address, that creates a routing problem which could explain very bad performance that you’re experiencing. That’s just my two cents, not sure this will solve your problem. In any case, I suggest you to contact Mikrotik. Good luck !

@@yohantv3632 yeah, I was surfing tutorials last night and find that many people just start with changing the IP. So, I'll try that. But somehow, even antena and router are still sitting indoor on table pointing up to the sky, I can get 20mbps at the moment :) Yesterday I tested, pointing about the tower directtion, got ~70mbps down. But the next step also would be good to understand what those graphs are showing, and what is consirered good reception (RSPS and RSSI values) and then should explanation for five years old, what does Rx and Tx mean :) Thanks again for your help!

Thank you. You’re right, of course: it's already a great increase, considering the location of this house. The real breakthrough is the steadiness of the connection. I said this, about speed, because I know that this antenna can do much much better !! Before I did this set up, I did some tests in a very urban area (Paris !), and I easily got 72 Mbps (so 20x more than in the countryside). I don't know your situation, but it means that maybe you can expect for more than 4 Mbps. I wish you great results with this device !

@@yohantv3632 how far you are from the cell tower? i live in a very rural area and got 0.8download speed from att on the mountain

@@angelmuniz8060 Hi! Unfortunately I still can't find where the cell tower actually is, as the "Cell ID" and "eNB ID" (displayed in WinBox) are not yet referenced in the 3 amateur databases that I found. I suggest you to look for the theorical range for this antenna, and for a map of cell towers around you. For your information, the speed I had without antenna (around 1Mbps) was clearly uneasy to get, like in a high corner of the room, and very unstable. If your 0.8 download speed is already stable, maybe you can expect a similar increase.

@@yohantv3632 i was thinking to put a mast putside the house at about 20feet with the lgh lte maybe can get better signal and more internet

@@angelmuniz8060 It should help indeed. Mine is inside actually, but on the second floor, and is receiving signal through a window. It's easier for me and it's working. However the LHG LTE is meant to be outside, of course. I suggest you to ask a professionnal, about mast and electrical security (the ground connector must be connected). Good luck

Thank you for your comment. It's been three months now, so I have more feedback to share. I've been able to get better results since the video: around 6 Mps average (max 7 Mps) when the antenna is correctly oriented. I forgot to tell in the video, that I actually compared 3 mobile network operators beforehands, with this antenna, as I baught 3 different SIM cards, to choose the better one for this situation. So I suggest you to do the same, even if it is a bit "costly" for a test. I also experienced a few and short drops in speed tests, when the antenna happen to choose another cell tower, for time to time. It can last 10 minutes, a few times in a day, but everything comes back to normal when the antenna finds back our best cell tower. I suggest you to read the LTE detailed informations in the LTE interface window (via the app, or winbox) to find out if the targeted cell tower is always the same (check the Cell ID, eNb...). You can even try to find the exact location of the targeted cell towers, thanks to their identifiers, to find a precise targeting, but it turns out to be difficult in my case.

@@yohantv3632 Thank you for shearing all your experience. I still didn't find time to play with antenna orientation and run winbox. But I had the same idea to try different operators. I already bought 2 more sim cards from different operators. Existing one - Orange, which is installed in the antenna has transmitter located 2km away with one LTE frequency - 800MHz. I bought sim at another operator, which has transmitter 2,6km away in opposite direction, but has 3 LTE frequencies 800, 2100 and 2600. Maybe Miktorik can merge all 3 frequencies to build better transfer. Actually I would like to have around 20-30Mb upload to provide good transfer for IP cameras. Let's see...

I understand you may need some « link aggregation » technology, which might be available for some switch/routers. I suggest you to contact MikroTik, to look for this feature in theirs products maybe. My understanding is that it would mean having multiple antennas, which cables are aggregated in another router/switch. Good luck

To be more specific: you might want to set up a « bonding » (link aggregation) in this way: - you would need 2 (or more) LHG LTE antennas - they should be both connected to the same Mikrotik router (like rb750up) which is configured for « bonding » - and you need a RouterOS X86 server (in the cloud, or elsewhere server-side and accessible from internet) to receive the two streams from your 2 antennas, and merge them a single stream, to access the internet in high speed ! This is what I understand, but you have to check with Mikrotik, if this is actually possible with LTE modems, before purchasing. (Source: in french: mum.mikrotik.com/presentations/FR16/presentation_3550_1474031684.pdf)

This antenna is a directionnal one, and is a combo setup that seems limited to 100 Mbps, as far as I known. That means that you will have to choose only one cell tower precisely to optimize your speed, to gain only 30 Mps max eventually. As you allready have a good modem, I recommend you to buy just an external antenna ! Just choose between a directionnal or a multi-directionnal one. If you allready have a descent radio signal, I would rather choose a multidirectionnal one maybe.

@@yohantv3632 i tryed to find an external antena for this model of modem and nothing for outside, only stiks that attache to modem (like chinese eating stiks).

Hello Raimonds, thank you for your question. You’re right, it’s not easy to insert and remove the SIM card from the slot. I am using « tweezers » to insert and remove it carefully. And to avoid doing it many times, I actually bought a SIM card especially for this antenna. And a SIM adapter, to make it the right size. You should see a little logo just over the slot, indicating how to insert the card: the SIM metal microship facing « the sky » when you have your antenna on a table, or on your knees. Here you can find a clear picture, taken from a Mikrotik forum: i.imgur.com/2KzP2C1.jpg All the best

Good for you ! As I mentionned in the video, and in the past few comments below, this house is surrounded by trees and the signal is obstructed by the landscape, and for now I am unable to tell the distance, as the cellID and eNB ID are not yet registered in amateur databases. The signal that my antenna is receiving does not seem to come from the cell towers I was targetting in the first place. I will update the description with distance whenever I’ll have more info. Thank you.

@@yohantv3632 hope you get the correct number's. i have a forrest abstracting me "a bit" looking at the topology maps i just skrape the tops of the tree's. and i know what tower i'm using and where to aim from maps. i hope you can get the same type of maps where you live. it makes life a lot easier

I’ve just found out that one of the Cell ID, that I was looking for, has recently been registered in a public database. So now I can tell that the distance from the worst cell tower (out of two) is actually 23,4 km. That’s a bit far. And that’s why the speed is low.

I don’t know. This video is about « long distance » 4G (made 2 years ago). As far as I know, 5G is not made for long distance telecommunication.

Yeah there is not much to show, you plug it and it works…

Hello Kevin. Thank you! Ok: Once you inserted the SIM card and plugged the PoE cable, after a few secondes, you should be able to access the administration console, via the winbox application on you computer connected to your antennas (using the ethernet cable). Winbox will suggest you the default IP adresse of your antenna, this should work. Once winbox is open, you’ll see multiple sections. Your priority is to set the APN and PIN code of your SIM card, in the « LTE Quick Set » section. This step can fail, if your PIN Code is wrong, or if your PIN Code is locked, due to multiple failed attempts. Some default PIN codes are not 0000 😂 If you locked your SIM card, you will see this information in the LTE logs (I don’t remember where exactly) Then get your PUK code and try to unlock your SIM card « as usual » using a cell phone. Then retry. Once your antenna has sucessfully targetted a cell tower, you’ll see a new graph showing the signal quality. Your computer should get the internet via your antenna ! One last thing, you should set a DNS address in Winbox, to enable a Firmware Update for your antenna ! (Let’s say Google DNS 8.8.8.8, or another DNS if you like). Good luck !

Awesome

@@yohantv3632 I now have my antenna online & showing signal. How do I setup for WiFi now

Good ! As I said in the video, when you will connect your wifi router to your antenna via ethernet (instead of connecting your computer to it) your wifi router will retrieve its IP address and gateway, exactly like your computer did before. Then you should launch your wifi router’s setup, if necessary, to finally enable your Wifi network (ssid and password). In the case of Google Wifi, this setup is done using a smartphone application (and is straitforward)

No, because this antenna has a LTE/4G modem inside. But of course you can find other antennas for your need. Please ask a professionnal.

Good point. My goal was only to show the best that I could get with or without this antenna. I also could have shown average results. Allright. In the end, what’s important is that, for months, I have been struggling to get a few steady hundreds of kBytes, let’s say 1Mbps max (like by carrying my smartphone higher to get more signal, in very unconfortable position) whereas with my new setup we have around 5Mps from the couch with no effort! That makes a big difference to me :-)

@@yohantv3632 thx for reply. now i understand your point of view and really make sense. i live 5 km away from main signal antena and maybe this is somehow a different story on me, but in forests, fields or any lone places... this realy improove the signal. i watched also some other video on youtube and all are happy with that, but all of them are struggeling also with signal on phone. thx for video :)

Hi, I did a few preleminary tests in a very urban environment last year, and it worked really well when the towers are very close, and the internet speed was very good. Then in my final tests, in the countryside, quite far from the tower, the targetted tower was not really straight in the axis of antenna, because there are trees and landscape there, obstructing parts of the signal. So in a nutshell, it might work, but I wonder why your client can’t have a proper signal at 50 meters away from the tower. If the signal is really obstructed or if there are interferences, I’m not sure that having a better antenna would help. Anyway you can give it a try !

@@yohantv3632 Hes actualy on a higher ground, he lives on a mountain, the tower was 50 meters away from his place, hee cant get any 4g signal, he only gets like 2g or sometimes 3g, but the tower is 4g capable, thats why i ask if im going to use this, if this will be effective for getting 4g signal in his place

@@dipxityou 50 meters? thats it?

Look up fresnel effect

Hello, good question, thank you. yes I saw this antenna when I had to make a choice. It is a bigger antenna which also gets more gain (24dbi vs 21bdi) compared to the Mikrotik LHG Kit. Of course you would have to buy a LTE/4G modem to make it work, and it might be necessary to actually buy 2 of these 24dbi antenna for proper LTE transmission, as you can read on the internet. (I don’t really know if the Mikrotik LHG LTE kit does meet this LTE requirement of having 2 antennas). So this would take much more space, and would cost about twice the price of the Mikrotik kit, or more. And it would require a bit more knowledge too, in my point of view. If you have enough space, money and advice from a professional installer, I would go for it ! In my case, I have a small space, my installation is pretty much temporary, and I didn’t have enough time to call a professional installer either ! In short, I think that the Mikrotik kit is better if you want to keep it small, easy, and cost-effective, but you might do better with the other one if you have space, money and knowledge. It sounds like wisdom haha 😂

@@yohantv3632 hahaha nice sir.... I buy 24dbi antenna already because of my few friends tried it already.... From 4-10mbps download speed to 30-70mbps download speed .....but take note applicable only in non congested towers ...... And for mikrotik less price but i don't know how to install hahaha my bad 😂😂

Alright ! A very nice improvement indeed ! So did it work for you too ? With only one antenna ? I’m not actually sure that having two twin antennas is absolutely necessary. If you succeed, please let me know ! Something else, if i may: please be aware of electrical/lightning risks, if you’re mounting your antennas outside, especially high on a mast. Please get advice from a professional to protect your antenna and your house. Cheers

@@yohantv3632 the item is on shipping ...by next week i can finally try this....but for lightning situation i gonna disconnect the antenna for safety reason and in my area when heavy rain coming no stable internet connection

@@yohantv3632 im gonna send you my review on this Parabolic antenna and difference with normal mimo 18dbi antenna

Yeah I know. That was my first KZfaq video, so the sound was poorly captured with my iPhone’s microphone, and the video edited using iMovie. I tried different workarounds, but every try would end in « out of sync » audio.

Thank you for your feedback about this antenna in rainy conditions. I have to say that my setup in this house, was temporary and was indoor ! Mainly to avoid lightning/security considerations and to have easy access to the device. I would be interested in having official Mikrotik advice for an outdoor setup in rainy weather !

@@yohantv3632 You're welcome. I am using a Netgear nighthawk now with a couple of diversity antenna's up on the roof. I am running in IP passthrough mode and have full access to the settings via its web interface. This route is a bit more expensive but I don't want to keep going up on the roof.

Are you saying that this antenna is dangerous ? Are you sure that a license is required to use this antenna in the US ? I’m not sure about this, as it’s clearly mainstream consumer electronics. If anyone has more information about this, please share with us.

You’re wrong. Just watch the comparison that I made, at the end of the video. Before writing comments like these, at least watch the video!

These days I think we’d better apply « protective measures » 😂 Anyway I saw your video about your very high antenna, that’s amazing !

@@yohantv3632 I hugged your channel, please do the same. Thank you

Of course I tried multiple places for this house. Thank you very much.

Results are bad, I know. As I said, I studied the map of the region with the nearest towers locations available given the hills and landscape, and what you don’t know is that I have very few possibilities to set the dish. So don’t blame me when you don’t know, or didn’t understand my situation. Your comment is useless.

@@yohantv3632 Sir, no hard feelings ;D You just showed nothing, my comment had more actual solutions than this whole video. Cell monitor, then cell lock experiments, at first 3D map with BTSes in Google Earth Pro (free), diagnose which PHY and towers actually are connecting, check use CA if there is LTE6, eliminate bands.

Useless comments. Just watch the video, as I said: this is a remote area, with a very low signal reception, due to the landscape.