Poynting 4G-XPOL-A0001 Cross Polarised 4G Omni LTE Antenna

I live in a fringe 4G area and have tried all sorts of addon 'whip' aerials for my Teltonika 4G router, each antenna set has made some difference in signal and/or stability of the signal - all have been loft installed pinned to rafters. With the router supplied antennas I struggled to get 5 Mbps down and it was flaky.I ordered this external aerial as a 'punt' and, already, am seeing definite benefits. I have just installed it temporarily in my loft while I wait for mounting hardware. Prior to installation of this unit I was using two LTE 'high gain' whips (cheap but effective) and these improved my signal stability greatly and speed increased to over 12Mbps, sometimes 20 but it was still unstable.Several speed tests before and after installation show an average upload improvement of about 20 Mbps (now 40 Mbps or greater), upload has shown about 8Mbps improvement (again this is compared to my router with better aerials, not the originals supplied). I am being conservative with the numbers here.I am quite confident I can improve the speeds somewhat by getting the aerial outside and in the clear and will update this accordingly.I should also say I installed one of these Poynting aerials for a neighbour who had zero 4G signal on her phone handset. We could not achieve a stable connection using a teltonika router with it's supplied magnetic whips. We installed this Poynting aerial upstairs (again in loft space, while waiting for an installer) and achieved a good consistent 21+ Mbps upload / 45 - 61 Mbps Download. Again, I would expect improvement with the aerial located outside in the clear.Both my neighbour and I had been battling with BT to get any service at all, both being at the end of poorly maintained and very long overhead copper.Internet is not a luxury in this day and age, especially out in the sticks. Both connections discussed above are with EE and very much cheaper than a very poor quality landline and ADSL in name only (not to mention the stress of dealing with BT). Mobile handsets can piggyback of the EE connection.I am quite happy with the construction of the aerials, it is supplied with 5M leads terminating in SMA male. The plastics are solid, I can not see anywhere water could ingress and the cables are of sufficient quality to last. I have no qualms about mounting this hardware outside - even in northern Scotland where the weather tends to weed out poor quality hardware.I recommend this product based on 11 years of trying to get BT service without incurring either a coronary or breakdown, several experiments with 4G hardware and 35 years of being a licensed radio operator - not to mention the ability to actually use iPlayer and Amazon Prime Video from these remote wind blown parts.

Live in rural Ireland, black hole for broadband. Was getting 791 kb/s 3gon mobile router and very unstable. Added this antenna and it went up to a very useable 1.3 mb/s put it on a pole outside and moved it around over the day . Finally settling on 4.5 mb/s. This is better than the telephone line (up to 512mb/s). And this is somewhere you have to stand on a ladder in a cowshed to make a mobile phone call 😊.. very very impressed . And it takes a lot to impress me.. plug and play easily fitted . Only one slight drawback is the length of cable . Not enough to put the router where i need to . But still wouldn't take a star off . Simply because it works !!8/3/2Updateafter talking to my neighbour who has the same set up he said to keep changing position and I'd probably get faster speeds do live speed tests rather than rely on signal strength . The two aren't necessarily the same .. anyway after moving it inch by inch rotationally and up and down the pole its settled at an amazing (for here) 29- 33 mb/s so don't go by signal quality go by constant live speed tests an inch at a time ..

Arrives with the antenna, 5m of (rather stiff) cable, male SMA connectors attached, some screws and so on, and a little booklet.The picture is incorrect, the supplied antenna is the newer version, although it looks very similar.This antenna is quite small, and the aerials inside the unit are probably the same size or perhaps even smaller than the ones in your router. Not only that, but the cable loses signal, as all cables do. So in some cases you aren't going to get better reception than you are already getting. Where this antenna comes in, is if your router is badly positioned, and being able to place the antenna somewhere within the 5m reach of the cables offers a significant improvement. In my case, it did not. In all the positions I tried, there was no noticeable difference. I could tell you that the difference was only 1dbi, but you would probably get different results.The Poynting is very well-made, but it is small, especially for the money. Size is everything with an antenna, and I compared the Poynting with a much larger Chinese unit that was 20% more expensive, but three times the size. Finally, that gave the result I needed. It showed a gain of 7dbi over the existing antenna. It stabilised the signal, so there was a noticeable improvement.My conclusion on this, for me, was that the Poynting was a good option for something like a car or caravan where reception is terrible, and you just need to get the antenna out of the Faraday cage you are sitting in, but you also need compact size. However, if you are at home, and the size is less important, then go for a larger unit. The bigger, the better.Recommended for certain applications only.