5G

until we get fiber…. 5G is our option. ADSL took us this far.

@astra reports

I got just shy of a gigabit on a fold 4 at the entrance to Tami (inside, where the DSL modem is right now) and about 500mbits with an iPhone 15

so that's the benchmark.

in a conversation with our cell provider (02/15/2024), we extracted the following info.

Support for 5G will be in accordance with the frequencies supported by Pelephone:
Frequency 3700MHz-3800MHz in the frequency band Band N78
and with a bandwidth of 60MHz (soon a maximum bandwidth of 100MHz will be activated),
even if the specific model of the customer is not sold by Pelephone.“

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GL-X3000

product page mirror
its running openWRT

Technology	Mode	Bands
5G NR	NSA	n1/ 2/ 3/ 5/ 7/ 8/ 12/ 13/ 14/ 18/ 20/ 25/ 26/ 28/ 29/ 30/ 38/ 40/ 41/ 48/ 66/ 70/ 71/ 75/ 76/ 77/ 78/ 79
	SA	n1/ 2/ 3/ 5/ 7/ 8/ 12/ 13/ 14/ 18/ 20/ 25/ 26/ 28/ 29/ 30/ 38/ 40/ 41/ 48/ 66/ 70/ 71/ 75/ 76/ 77/ 78/ 79
LTE	LTE-FDD	B1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 7/ 8/ 12/ 13/ 14/ 17/ 18/ 19/ 20/ 25/ 26/ 28/ 29/ 30/ 32/ 66/ 71
	LTE-TDD	B34/ 38/ 39/ 40/ 41/ 42/ 43/ 48
	LAA	B46
UMTS	WCDMA	B1/ 2/ 4/ 5/ 8/ 19
GNSS		GPS/ GLONASS/ BDS/ Galileo/ QZSS

antenna drama

the 6 antennas it came with where left [1] on a random bed in a random hotel room in NYC…
so we had to roll our own, the internet was not optimistic, but YouTube rules.

but before that we tried to connect without any antennas (carful)

and with random antennas we found in Tami RF bins.

1st build

(20/15/2024)
enter the 5G Antenna 9db Gain by Andrew McNeil

Design files > 5g_antenna_9db_gain_by_andrew_mcneil_.pdf - print 100% scale on A4 paper

our Neighbours at BB jewelry store stock cheap brass sheets, the design calls for 0.5mm but they only had 0.4 and 0.6 mm.
currently we used the 0.4 and also got nice scissors.