topic Re: Bands best to have in Broadband

Bands best to have

Dazzar — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 21:18:10 GMT

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Dazzar — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 21:18:47 GMT

Re the above these are the channels shown are these the best to cell lock to ?

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Dazzar — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 22:02:57 GMT

Why will they not allow me to put an image of my settings here that’s the whole point of my question

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sc1999 — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 22:17:24 GMT

I don't know why but it can take a day for images to load.

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crypt0ninja — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 23:24:04 GMT

Mods have to approve all attached images lol

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Dazzar — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 07:23:08 GMT

So the image shows I am on band b3,b1, n78 ,n78 download good upload poor to say the least

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Mark83 — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 09:48:28 GMT

I use B3, B20, B32 and N78. I find using B1 in any configuration has slower upload speeds.

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crypt0ninja — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:46:18 GMT

Can see the image now 🙂 Just checked that Cell ID on CellMapper and that mast appears to broadcast B1, B3 and B20...

Possibly try B3+B20+N78?

There's a mast further away from this one that broadcasts B1+B3+B20+B28 but not sure if you will be in reach of that one, to test you can try locking B3+B28+N78 to see if it will pick up that signal, there doesn't seem to be any other mast nearby that broadcasts B28 so it should lock you onto that mast if you select that band and you are in reach of its signal.

I also get poor B1 and B3 upload speeds here so I use a B28+N78 combo personally as it locks me onto a cell that gives the best signal, great DL and UL speeds, and ping.

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nsmhd — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:19:35 GMT

I use B3,B32&n78 which seem to give the best speeds from my mast (which has a 300mbps microwave link).

I find B3 gives the best upload which is because it has a 15Mhz upload channel rather than 10Mhz that B1 has.

I find that if you have B1+B3 +n78 it uses B1 upload of 10Mhz and a 100mhz from the n78.

with B3 (plus any other bands except B1) you get 15,100 MHz bandwidth showing.

interestingly in 4G mode it does not appear to aggregate upload so you just have either 10 or 15 mhz bandwidth depending on which band you select but upload is nowhere as good as in 5G mode.

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Dazzar — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 07:11:37 GMT

Thanks is there anyway of telling me where these two masts actually are ?

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crypt0ninja — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 11:17:30 GMT

eNB 8840 circled in red is the mast you are connected to and you can see some others surrounding it and what bands they reportedly broadcast 🙂

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Dazzar — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 20:24:39 GMT

Thanks the b28 is way to far from me

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Dazzar — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 20:25:37 GMT

And where’s the 5g coming from the same mast ?

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Dazzar — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:21:23 GMT

Getting better uploads

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crypt0ninja — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 23:45:38 GMT

Cell Mapper shows that mast is 5G ENDC enabled so its likely that 5G is anchored from another site mate but not sure where from...

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crypt0ninja — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 23:45:06 GMT

Good news @Dazzar 🙂

What did you do to achieve the better upload speeds? or did it just improve itself? haha

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bulldog555 — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:56:08 GMT

Same here. This is the best one I have with download speed of 642Meg but very poor upload 11Meg. 😂

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Dazzar — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:48:50 GMT

Turned off the b3 and the upload went a lot higher

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Dazzar — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:39:00 GMT

@bulldog555 Turn off your b1 and try B32, I’m now on b3 ,b32 and n78 my upload has increased by 40 mbps not that I need that much for my teams meetings but at least I’m not the one that everyone is waiting for now , download not much difference but it was already on the N78