Mounting 5G hub on an aerial pole

[MymsMan]

To try and get above treeline the best location for my 5G external hub would be to attach it to a TV aerial pole, fine hub comes with a pole mount kit

But the pole mount kit is designed to mount to pipes up to to 80mm  the aerial pole that I wish to attach to has a diameter of 25mm and the jubilee clip supplied will not adjust down below 55mm diameter circle.  I do have smaller jubilee clips but they cant fit through the mounting bracket which is 55mm wide.

If it was just a small difference I could pad the pole with tape but 30mm thickness would use a lot of tape and I am not sure how secure it would be!

I am sure I am not the only user who has wanted to connect the hub to a TV aerial pole.   How have others solved this issue?

I did try chatting to support but agent had no idea what I was trying to ask about and kept insisting that Three don't sell poles!

[Parks91]

Thinking about doing the same with my hub what was the signal strength before hand and the speed? Thank you

[MymsMan]

Signal strength was very variable before hub was fixed into place switching from 50-80 every few seconds,  peaks download speeds were very good - 400Mbps but dropping to 10Mbs at times.  I now realise that most of the low speeds were due to issues with my laptops wireless settings rather than with the 5G signal,

[JonathanB]

Thanks for sticking with this and documenting your experiences @MymsMan, I'm sure this will be really helpful for other community members!

[Parks91]

I've put mine alot higher now getting 86 and 91 strengh but still only about 100mbps when I joined in October I had it in the window on the ground floor with 77 strength and was getting well over 250mbps so it seems to have slowed down as time goes on. But thanks for the info.

[MymsMan · Accepted solution]

My solution has been to take a sheet of thick polythene, fold it several times, wrap the thick strip around the pole until it reached the required diameter,  then wrap in duck tape and fix Three's pole mount on with jubilee clip.

Seems pretty secure and signal strength is fluctuating between 75 & 85

[MymsMan]

Speeds are now excellent ranging between 300-600 Mpbs with a median of 435Mbps

Not bad considering I was worried whether I would get any signal and the price is much less than I was paying for 34Mbps Fibre 1 😁 😀

[JonathanB]

Oh wow, that's some creative thinking! How's the hub performing for you overall @MymsMan?

Thanks,
Jonathan

[Paddiewack]

Good plan;better than my suggestion! 

[Paddiewack]

lol Love your last comment about Three not selling poles. I’m absolutely no tech expert but as far as I’m aware,mobile broadband is strictly line of sight and if going higher achieves that for you then all well and good. An idea would be to mount the hub with the clips then drill and insert screws through the clip into the pole. That should be solid enough. Make sure though to align the hub with precision accuracy before screwing it on.

Best of luck