Bluespot Mini 5G Antenna Unboxing - External Outdoor Antenna For Your Home Broadband 5G Router Modem

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Bluespot Mini 5G Antenna Unboxing - External Antenna For Your Home Broadband 5G Router Modem
Hopefully this unboxing will be useful for anyone interested in a close look at what comes in the box for the Bluespot Mini 5G antenna.
The Bluespot Mini 5G antenna is designed to work as a pole mounted or mast mounted outdoor external 5G MIMO antenna for your home broadband 5G router modem. I will follow up this video with some 5G broadband speed tests with this 5G antenna on my home 5G broadband router and compare it to the speeds that I receive using the 5G router on its own indoors with its built in 5G antennas.
As for performance. I live about a mile away from my local 5G cell tower. My apartment is quite high up and thereabouts in line of sight of the call tower. However, I do have a lot of tall trees between my apartment and the cell tower and I also have other tall buildings in the way.
I'm on Three and use their ZTE MC801A 5G router modem. When place in the best spot for reception of the 5G signal my download speed is about 150Mb/s, upload is about 22Mb/s and ping latency is around 42MS.
With the Bluespot Mini 5G antenna mounted outside and pointing toward the 5G cell tower my upload speed only increased to about 27Mb/s and my ping latency got slightly worse, increasing to about 62MS. However, and this is a big however, my download speed increased to averaging just over 400Mb/s.
While the upload increase may not be great and the ping latency got slightly worse, I'm super impressed with the download speed increasing to just over 400Mb/s as an average. In fact, if someone were to have told me that these were going to be the results of adding the Bluespot Mini 5G antenna to my Three 5G router, I wouldn't have been bothered at all by the upload and ping latency results and I would have been more than happy to pay for an antenna that gave me 400Mb/s download speed. This is an increase of around 250Mb/s.
The download speeds are very evident in my PS5 and Xbox Series X downloads. Also, I've tried multiple 8K 60FPS streams to different devices and it's shocking just how well this works. I'm able to jump through these 8K 60FPS streams with only about a 1.5 second pause until the stream continues at 8K 60FPS. This speed of access is actually faster than my previous 4G router system when scrolling through only 1080P 60FPS streams.
I'm not sure why my upload speed doesn't show as marked a difference as the download, or why my latency gets slightly worse. This may have something to do with 3's bitrate control/contention for upload, it may be to do with all the tall trees and foliage between me and the 5G cell tower, it could be due to reflections (so far I've not fine tuned my antenna position. Regardless, my download speeds more than make up for any of the performance gains that I may have expected with upload and latency and I'm truly super happy.
I also use TS9 to SMA pigtail extender cables, these will also introduce RF insertion loss and the coax cable on those extenders also has signal loss.
Others may find their milage varies, especially due to distance from their 5G cell tower, position, quality of signal, router/modem, carrier/service provider etc. None the less, I would totally recommend this Bluespot Mini 5G antenna to anyone who is in a position to fully utilise its benefits with their 5G broadband home router modem.
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Bluespot Mini 5G Antenna Unboxing - External Antenna For Your Home Broadband 5G Router Modem
Hopefully this unboxing will be useful for anyone interested in a close look at what comes in the box for the Bluespot Mini 5G antenna.
The Bluespot Mini 5G antenna is designed to work as a pole mounted or mast mounted outdoor external 5G MIMO antenna for your home broadband 5G router modem. I will follow up this video with some 5G broadband speed tests with this 5G antenna on my home 5G broadband router and compare it to the speeds that I receive using the 5G router on its own indoors with its built in 5G antennas.
As for performance. I live about a mile away from my local 5G cell tower. My apartment is quite high up and thereabouts in line of sight of the call tower. However, I do have a lot of tall trees between my apartment and the cell tower and I also have other tall buildings in the way.
I'm on Three and use their ZTE MC801A 5G router modem. When place in the best spot for reception of the 5G signal my download speed is about 150Mb/s, upload is about 22Mb/s and ping latency is around 42MS.
With the Bluespot Mini 5G antenna mounted outside and pointing toward the 5G cell tower my upload speed only increased to about 27Mb/s and my ping latency got slightly worse, increasing to about 62MS. However, and this is a big however, my download speed increased to averaging just over 400Mb/s.
While the upload increase may not be great and the ping latency got slightly worse, I'm super impressed with the download speed increasing to just over 400Mb/s as an average. In fact, if someone were to have told me that these were going to be the results of adding the Bluespot Mini 5G antenna to my Three 5G router, I wouldn't have been bothered at all by the upload and ping latency results and I would have been more than happy to pay for an antenna that gave me 400Mb/s download speed. This is an increase of around 250Mb/s.
The download speeds are very evident in my PS5 and Xbox Series X downloads. Also, I've tried multiple 8K 60FPS streams to different devices and it's shocking just how well this works. I'm able to jump through these 8K 60FPS streams with only about a 1.5 second pause until the stream continues at 8K 60FPS. This speed of access is actually faster than my previous 4G router system when scrolling through only 1080P 60FPS streams.
I'm not sure why my upload speed doesn't show as marked a difference as the download, or why my latency gets slightly worse. This may have something to do with 3's bitrate control/contention for upload, it may be to do with all the tall trees and foliage between me and the 5G cell tower, it could be due to reflections (so far I've not fine tuned my antenna position. Regardless, my download speeds more than make up for any of the performance gains that I may have expected with upload and latency and I'm truly super happy.
I also use TS9 to SMA pigtail extender cables, these will also introduce RF insertion loss and the coax cable on those extenders also has signal loss.
Others may find their milage varies, especially due to distance from their 5G cell tower, position, quality of signal, router/modem, carrier/service provider etc. None the less, I would totally recommend this Bluespot Mini 5G antenna to anyone who is in a position to fully utilise its benefits with their 5G broadband home router modem.
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[@ItsDavidMorris]

A test of the antenna would have been nice. May be something to consider for future videos.

[@DavidHarry]

Hi David. This was just the unboxing, I will be doing speed tests with this antenna soon. I have a few different routers and will be comparing the signals and speeds between the different routers, with and without this antenna. Cheers, Dave.

[@tigeogr]

Can you make a video to show as the difference of your speed, with and without this antenna on your ZTE, please!

[@DavidHarry]

Hi. I'm just working through some videos at the moment for Router-Mods.co.uk & Bluespotnet.net These will be the start of a range of videos about antennas and routers, which will include speed tests with various antennas and comparing them with internal antennas and also modified routers. One of the videos is going to be this ZTE router comparing the internal antennas to using the external 5G and also a fully modified ZTE router with external 4G and 5G antennas. Cheers, Dave.

[@markifi]

it used to be an miniature socket on the back of the phone and a simple coax cable with a compact antenna. now there're no phones with a port any more, we need external power for the indoor unit, often a bulky outdoor unit, and it's still just useful within 1 metre of the indoor access point. kinda thinking technology is going backwards

[@DavidHarry]

It’s going very backwards in certain ways, such as build quality and materials. I’ll be doing a video soon about one of my routers which broke immediately as soon as I connected an external antenna to it. The external antenna sockets, which are TS9, are just surface mounted straight to the motherboard of the router. They don’t have any strain relief whatsoever and are almost guarantee to snap off as soon as you connect anything to them. Once snapped off, on this particular router, the 5G part of the router no longer works.

[@markifi]

@@DavidHarry i imagine any one of your videos at 100 megabits per second should be about 10-20 gigabytes. did you find, before breaking the router, that the 5g connection throttled you when uploading such files? what about general use? fluctuating latency or rock solid? i'm at the edge of the reception for a 5g tower and i live in a much more rural area than what anything near Liverpool might be, but i'm thinnking about switching the house from dsl to a mobile router on the roof inside a weatherproof plastic box, connected to another routher with ethernet 5 metres below it indoors. the technology is definitely there already, 150-400 megabits per second with 10-30 ms latency would be an improvement over our current copper cable setup, but i'm wondering about the attitude of service providers if a client transfers a 100 to 500 gigabytes a month. you might have experience with that. well, one thing about "the good old days". my nokia 6310 with a port for an external antenna had a million times slower transfer rates :)

[@DavidHarry]

@@markifi I’ve been on mobile internet for over five years now, originally on a tethered phone but then moved to a router a few years back and never had any throttling and my monthly average use is easily over a terabyte. Latency is usually the same, although it will change if the position of the router changes but is either 35ms or about 65ms depending on position. While my upload speeds generally don’t change, the downloads will vary slightly through the day, I assume this is contention due to local cell tower usage. That said, the 5G even with a weaker signal was more consistent than the 4G. It does appear that 3 gives you proper unlimited bitrate and bandwidth and doesn’t throttle. The largest download I’ve done was about 600GB of games in one queued download and the largest single upload was about 120GB to TH-cam and no issues. If you do look into it I’d recommend a router with external antenna ports for 5G. From what I know it would appear that 3 are the only ones who supply a router that have 5G external antenna connections built in but they’re on TS9, which are almost designed to break as they are just accessible sockets that are surface mounted to the board with no strain relief. I’ll have a video up later about a simple thing you can do with these things to help strain relief. There’s also routers you can buy and just pop your sim into, although 5G routers can be very expensive. 3 are also by far the cheapest at £20 per month for proper unlimited. Others say they are unlimited but they’re unlimited at a much lower bit rate and charge more for higher bitrates. In fact, 3’s 4G+ ends up being faster than some of the other 5G offerings due to others limiting their 5G bitrate. On 4G+ with 3 I get around 100Mb/s down and around 30Mb/s up with about 42MS latency. BTW I’m not advocating 3, they’re just as useless as other suppliers or even worse, I’ll be doing a video soon about their horrendous support but if you’re in a good signal area for 3 you really can’t get better.

[@TonesAdventuresHD]

I’ve never seen one of those. I am guessing it amplifies your Wi-Fi signal?

[@DavidHarry]

Alright Tone. Yes, it’s an antenna specific for the 5G signal. I don’t know if you’ve used one but you can buy routers that have a cell phone SIM card slot built in. When you put a 5G SIM into them they basically turn into the data section of a cell phone and act as a Wi-Fi hotspot. Some have external antenna sockets and that’s what this antenna is for. My router was already fast at about 150Mb/s download speed on its internal 5G antennas when placed by a window that looks out in the direction of the 5G cell tower. When I attached this antenna and had the antenna outside and pointed it toward the direction of the cell tower, the antenna is directional, my download speed increased to 400Mb/s. Only problem now is that my router is broke because its antenna sockets snapped off and it’s now only receiving about 2Mb/s download 😂😂😂😂 A video about that soon. Cheers, Dave.

[@ME10920]

Hello, quick question sorry if you have already covered it. I imagine the antenna ideally needs to point at the local transmitter is there a way of working out which direction it maybe or is it a case of moving the antenna and just testing the connection speeds etc.?

[@DavidHarry]

Yes, the antenna is directional and needs to point toward a 5G cell tower, ideally with no obstructions. The company that sell this one give a free site survey where they work out your best position from your postcode and internet provider. Cheers, Dave.

[@ME10920]

@@DavidHarry ohh OK cool