✅ Taking Apart The Verizon 4G LTE Home Internet - External Antenna and Fan

Can you add an external antenna to the Verizon's 4G LTE Home Internet Askey gateway? Do you need a cooling fan? I take apart the gateway to show you the insides and what options there are for antennas and cooling fan. Verizon offers this 4G LTE based fixed wireless home internet with unlimited data and for cheaper than many phone plans so if its available in your area it could be a good option (the unit is not geolocked so it can be can be moved but verizon asks to be notified of a change of address).

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[JoeL-zxtl]

Great video. I will keep my T-mobile garbage can. Of course with the optional external antenna. Thank you for the review of that Verizon gateway

[PiperDowns]

I love your videos on this new home internet technology. In my household we have the trash can and this 4g verizon gateway and you’ve been a huge help figuring these out and you’re also doing the dirty work for us. Mine is Verizon’s gateway so I can’t really take it apart

[rickybailey]

U are the man thank you for your video exz what I was looking!

[PiperDowns]

My dad has the trash can and got the lid like yours and I was disappointed with the 4g gateway cause I couldn’t find a USB port but thanks to you poking around you showed me that there is indeed one. I want to add a usb fan to it. I’m just glad you do this stuff so we don’t have to. Thank you for doing the research cause I couldn’t find anything on it. I can’t believe it doesn’t come with hardware specs. Why would they hide that port? It just seems odd. Anyway thanks a lot Nate! Great channel and cheers!

[RobertMartin-ewvy]

Very informative. Great video. keep it up.

[MiniatureChickenChannel]

Nice tear down gonna request this for all of your future vids warranty...the video footage is more valuable!

[glazed_vaseline]

These kinda remind me of the gamecube, we're is the sim card located on these ?

[markgrunenwald]

What was the model number of this cube? Maybe I missed that info somewhere. Thanks

[josephcook]

If u need help with a better signal u can always get a signal booster 😉 this way u can get a full signal

[stevenhoyt]

do you know how to go about soldering to the cellular antennas to "make it work" with an external antenna?

thanks, i appreciate your help.

[waynemackenziesr]

So those are Microstrip patch antennas yes? If I want to risk it (and I do) how would I attach an external antenna and can you show me an example of one? (Cellular antenna with three leads) I am only familiar with 2 lead antennas so not sure how to connect a three lead. I did a fairly good search online for more specific info but am stumped finding any.

[alcazar-kinney]

Hi Nate! In what direction is the fan at the bottom of the cube pushing air? Towards the bottom of the cube or towards the top? The airflow is so faint I'm not sure. I will be adding an external fan and I do not want it to push air in the opposite direction.

[toxiacavenger]

I just signed up for home LTE since we have Verizon already. We got the gateway free included with my plan. Must be something new

[kylegoodwin]

Can you remove the SIM card if you bought the device and put it in the Elsys?

[GregRuffino]

The contact on the pcb Reminds me of "JST" stuff. I could be wrong.

[Bryan-Hensley]

Verizon wireless home internet just now became available at my house. They claim in the ad the max speed is 50 Mbps download. They also give $100 credit to the Bill after 2 months so that makes the gateway a little cheaper

[TartAppleJuice]

wait so the verizon is capped at 50mbps? is the tmobile one capped?

[BudFuddlacker]

How come some of the home LTE gateways are white rectangular boxes and not a cube? Which one is better?

[screwthepap]

I switched over from Spectrum cable internet to Verizon's 5G Home Internet (not PLUS) plan last week. After a few hiccups setting up the ASK-NCQ1338 gateway (which required spending a few hours with Verizon's techs via chat), everything is running smoothly and I'm getting about 300 MBPS download and 20 MBPS upload.

My question is this: your teardown of the ASK-NCQ1388 and the images submitted by the manufacturer to the FCC for certification show a cooling fan in the unit. I have yet to hear the fan in my gateway running ever since powering up the gateway a week ago, and I'm worried Verizon might have shipped me a gateway with a defective fan. Or could it be that the fan only activates when the gateway gets hot? I don't know. Have you ever heard or seen the fan in your ASK-NCQ1338 running?

Thanks!

[KirballsKeys]

I’m moving to a rural area this month and this is my only option for internet with more than 500kbps upload speed as a twitch streamer this is devastating news. I’ve signed up for service with this and was wondering if you have found a way to add a parabolic or yagi antenna to this?