✅ BIG IMPROVEMENT - Sagemcom Fast 5688W - T-Mobile 5G Home Internet - External Waveform Antenna Test

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[angelagonzalez]

Nater Tater, you have literally saved my life with posting this video! I live in a rural area and even though spectrum and quantam fiber service less than a mile up my road, they refused to service down to my house. No other internet provider was available. The only 1 that I had was tmobile home internet. It was great for about a month or 2 and then the speeds went severely low. I was getting 14.1 mbps download and literally .08 upload speed. It was terrible! I had tried everything, from moving my modem all over the house, buying different routers and wifi extenders yet nothing worked. I literally couldnt use my internet for most of the day. I even became so frustrated that I emailed my Mayor and County Commissioners begging for help with the lack of internet service providers but no one answered my pleas. I took the risk and bought the 4×4 panel. Had to hire someone to wire it to the modem since im not at all tech savy and omg what a difference it has made!!! My download speed is 240 mbps and upload speed is around 14.2 mbps. And thats with the antenna inside my home. I have to schedule another appointment for the tech guy to come back out and mount it outside which im betting ill get even better speeds. Something id recommended telling others is to get a wifi extender after setting up the antenna because I noticed the further I walked away from the antenna, the slower my speeds got on my phone. So I connected my tp link wifi extender and it fixed that problem! Thank you so much for what you do!! ❤️❤️❤️

[nehrub]

This video is gold information! Thank you. I took mine apart and removed the cover without breaking the warranty seal. I followed your video using a flat screw driver. I started from the base and continued to side panel to pop out the small tabs. Then I just wiggled the entire side walls and slide the body off. You don't need to puncture warranty seal to remove the screw.

[Spangler]

Thank you so much Nater Tater, I followed your steps exactly to setup a gateway at my house and the speeds are far beyond faster than I originally was getting on my rural internet service. YOU ARE A LEGEND!!!!

[chriswagner]

THANK YOU FOR THE TRAIL BLAZING LEVERAGE AND TACTICAL KNOWLEDGE THAT WILL MAKE MY LIFE SO MUCH LESS COMPLICATED AND SAVE ME TIME AND MONEY WILL SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL THANKS AGAIN

[kmschwem]

Perfect timing. Should be getting the antenna tomorrow.

[chucktrotter]

10.28.22 Very good Nate. Thanks for taking the time to do this video.

[WBGUD]

I'm using LTE-D/5G and LTE-M/MIMO and am getting decent speeds for us, 22 down and
42 up. This is on B2 and N71 in the middle of the day. We'll see how it is from 4 PM til 10 PM, that's the real test. As always, many thanks for all your efforts.

[vaxick]

Swapped my Arcydan out today for a Sagemcom at one of their corporate stores. All I can say is wow, speeds are on average 150 to 200Mbps higher. It's a relief to finally have the speeds the old Nokia gave me, but this one is handling jitter better than the Nokia ever did in my area. Also my SINR on N41 is an insane 40 on the Sage. With the Ark and Nokia, the best I hit was 29.

[jimbodee]

Good details and step by step progress and advancement of connections with results at each stage.

[flashesbuck]

Great info, just picked up my modem for at my dad's place. I'm just outside of the 5g coverage according to TMobile map online. I'm looking forward to doing some testing tomorrow when I get it installed.

[jboro]

Great video! Thank you for detailed video on this project. Much appreciated. Keep up the great work.

[donloggins]

I would love to see you do a similar test in a different location like a fringe area 3-4 miles from a tower to see what difference the mimo antenna does.

[yukiishibashi]

Really appreciate this in-depth review. My wife hates our cable monopoly with the heat of a thousand suns and wants anything but, however she works remotely and needs rock-solid internet.

The first few weeks it was great and we didn't even notice that we'd switched to a 5g gateway, but about 3 weeks in, the weather got bad (there is supposedly rain and fog-based signal degradation) and also our gateway started restarting frequently, knocking out our internet.

We got another gateway, fair weather, and so far it's not restarting, and I have found the optimal location / angle placement of our gateway, which is better, 5G on N41 band, SINR ~-4 to 12, RSRP ~-102-97.

We live in an apt and aren't able to install a 4x4 external antenna outside the building, so if all other things are equal (the ~exact same antenna placement inside the apt), approximately how big of an increase in SINR and RSRP did you observe / estimate for the 4x4 external antenna? Is the external antenna's physical size helpful in boosting signal? Thanks!

[bmcga]

I'm using a poynting xpol-24 4x4 MIMO antenna and the green, red, blue, orange antenna pattern is basically what I landed on as fastest too.
Cell 1 Main -> Green
Cell 1 Aux -> Red
Cell2 Main -> Blue
Cell2 Aux -> Orange

[TurtleWaxed]

Nater tater have you done signal checks after a heavy snow? Does your signal turn to crap or still work with the external antenna in the attic? I am trying to decide...mount antenna on my ham radio mast or just in the attic. Personally my attic is just a crawl space so I would rather put it on the mast. :)

[kevinunion]

Will report back from Ohio backwoods next weekend! Thanks for your help. I’ll be using a 2x directional from waveform. Currently getting 20/4mbs through a Mofi4500 and a tablet SIM card. Any thoughts?

[MountaineerMapleDIY]

I have the waveform 4x4 and the sagemcom. My bands are N71, 2, 66. Any suggestions on the best order to hook them up? Thanks

[kb]

Nate, how'd you get them to let you have a Sagecomm? My Arcadyan is working better with the 4x4, , but still have to reset it once in a while cause it'll be a 0.5mbps up/down sometimes.

[Landlordsplace]

Hi Nater Tater I just got the T-Moble internet for my RV and am going to the Dekota's for a vacation. From what I hear that is noman land out there but there is phone service out there. I am thinking of putting a external waveform 4x4 on a 30 ft. pole on the back of the rv and turn it to the cell towers. What is you take on this? Would this the best antenna for the T-moble setup or is there one for better for a RV? Great videos btw thanks so much for doing them.

[sneakypete]

Very nice report! I was just able to get the Sagemcom after exchanging my Arc gateway. The Arc was dropping signal every week, I was able to bring it into my local T-Mobile and insist on getting the new Sagemcom. I hooked up my 4x4 both ways (your way and waveforms way) My speeds were better with the waveform configuration. It is about 100Mbps faster than the Arc. HOWEVER, that could be due to the face that its a new line of service so they're giving me better speeds. Time will tell...