WAVEFORM Panel Antenna for T-Mobile Gateway
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Looking to get the best possible data rates from your T-Mobile 5G Internet Gateway?
You’ll want to purchase and connect external MIMO antennas to the device’s internal U.FL ports.
Using a MIMO antenna pointed at the nearest tower and this can help you get the fastest 4G LTE and 5G data rates possible.
The T-Mobile 5G Internet Gateway has four internal U.FL ports, which allow for two 2x2 MIMO antennas, or up to a 4x4 MIMO antenna to be connected to the device. Accessing these ports does require some disassembly, but I will walk you through that in the guide below.
Here are the three main ways that external antennas help you increase your data rates:
1.
They Improve Signal Quality
In 4G LTE and 5G networks, signal quality is measured as SINR (Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio) or sometimes as RSRQ (Reference Signal Received Quality).
Improving signal quality has a huge impact on your data rates.
Higher data rates allow your hotspot to communicate using "higher order modulation schemes." That means they can use the same wireless spectrum to send more data per second.
However, there's one big caveat:
In order to improve your signal quality, you need to both aim and shield your outdoor antenna properly. We talk more about this in the next section.
2.
They Allow You To Connect On More Bands
Hotspots like the T-Mobile 5G Internet Gateway support a feature called "carrier aggregation."
Carrier aggregation allows the Gateway to connect on multiple cellular bands simultaneously.
The more bands you're connected on, the greater the bandwidth, and the higher your data rates.
However, many of the higher frequency bands aren't able to penetrate into buildings. Using external antennas allows you to access higher frequency bands, which are often less congested and offer higher speeds than lower frequency bands.
3.
They Increase Your Signal Strength
As you might expect, using outdoor directional antennas can help increase the signal strength.
This helps increase data rates, but only up to a point.
If your signal strength (called "RSRP" in 4G and 5G networks) is stronger than about -100 dBm, stronger signal won't speed up your connection any further.
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T-Mobile need to make a gateway with an external antenna port.
I agree!
amen
It is ultra easy to connect an external antenna, but yes, having them coming with the connectors would be better.
@@Step-n-Wolf I have the Waveform antenna connected already, it would be nice to have ports to just plug it in is all.
Matt you explained everything so much simpler than other youtube videos that I watched.
Hey I appreciate it, thanks for watching!
Awesome! Thanx for the step by step instructions. I understand how you feel about getting your better numbers.
Just did mine yesterday and we were seeing around 18 mbs, once I installed the waveform 4 x4 we are seeing 40-100 mbs at times. Vast improvement for us in our very rural area in NC.
Yeah it works pretty good for what it is. What part of North Carolina? I lived in Canton, Waynesville, Hendersonville and Rutherfordton?
The good thing is that customers can actually make these modifications. The sad thing is that the customers have to make these modifications.
Bless your heart. You live in the deep country. I typically get 980 mbps.
Where are you? I live next to a 5gUC tower and don't get speeds like that.
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Good video my man great step by step tips...
Thanks for watching my friend! Please like & subscribe :)
It's been 4 months, where is part 2 ??
So how has it worked out the last three months? Have you hooked the antenna up outdoors?
I have the modem/router coming in a few days. Eager to see how it performs.
Since this is a wifi6 device you and it's an uncapped plan, try connecting directly to the gateway with a cat-5e, 6, or 6a cable for best possible speeds. Might triple your speed.
You might try backing it off the window about 2ft or 1 meter, sometimes if you have any polarization to the window for UV or energy efficiency being right up against the glass can mess with 4g/5g signals
A guy on the TMO discussion board, 007Bond (his handle), said in a recent post, he didn't get it to work right until he mounted the Waveform antenna outside his window. He has low-e glass. Before he got the antenna, his problem was getting the desired n41 5G band from one of three towers all which he was quite close to. With the antenna outside the window and pointed at the n41 tower, his average speed went from 75 to 650 with a similar rise on upload to 100. I understand how some people in apartments or even condos, might not be able to mount an antenna outdoors.
I don't have the antenna because I'm fine with my average speeds of 200/30, which being 5 miles from an n41 tower, is amazing. My peak speed ever was 420/70. Coming from single-digit DSL speed for the last 8 years, even after four months with this, I'm still in shock.
I must be lucky. By walking the T-Mobile unit around my town home the download speed was over 210mbps and 58mbps up. No mimo antenna. 4 bars out of the box.
I didn't see a part 2 ... in the video list? Did place this Waveform higher.... just curious?
It's been at least a year since this video and you haven't done an update to let us know how it is, despite saying part 2 is coming soon. Do you have an update for us? Did you move it to the attic or outside? I just ordered a Waveform MIMO for the newer T-Mobile Arcadyian Gateway, should get it this coming Monday (08/20/22), because I'm in a rural area and I get between 5 and 18mbps without a booster antenna. I've been watching as many reviews/tutorials as possible to see how well these work for others. Of course my experience will be different, everybody's mileage will vary, but I wanna get an idea of what to expect.
Ask if they have a different tower available. Also I have connected to two different tower's. One is extremely fast, but also very unstable meaning in varies. I've seen speeds of 180 mps. The other tower stays around 50 but it's always consistent.
Thanks for the video. I just got my gateway to hold me over until Starlink is available. Early this morning I got 111/19 with 2-3 bars. I can’t imagine it getting faster than that. But I am interested to see how much better you get when the antenna is up high. During peak usage times my speed gets down around 10/1… some days it’s half a mb up also… being a content creator the upload is everything to us.
Just curious how if you noticed more bars on your unit when you connected it?
Don't mean to hijack if question was directed to OP, but I can say I had 2 bars before and after. I would still recommend to everyone getting a weak signal (but working signal) to give external antennas a try. Very difficult to estimate in advance what will happen.
Bro starlink is likely slower
Red bluff ca I'm connected to a 5g capable tower but tmobile doesnt transmit 5g I'm my area yet if they ever will. I'm 4g only Maybe .6mb to 6mb with everything hooked up. When I first bought this home setup I was getting 5- 12 mbps but its been down hill every since and yes I have contacted tmobile several times my tmobile cell phone get the same speeds. Seems like we get throttled during heavier usage times even though were in a rural area. I was really hopeful this would be better but sadly it's not. I was o the loo it's for starlink but we just got emailed were screwed until the end of 2022 I might try adding a dual cable power supply amd see if that helps. Anyways thanks for the video it was really helpful. I was also wondering if there is a difference between the little ports inside as far as signal like if the pair you used is for 5g and maybe the other set you didn't use is for 4g I thought if that's the case that might go me better.
I am Thinking of getting this Device.
Is it Only the 1 set of antennas ?
I thought this had 2 or 3 sets of mimo internal antennas
Thanks for the video. I just found out that T-Mobile Home Internet is available in my very rural area in Arizona, so going to give it a shot while I continue to wait for Starlink. Only question I have is - where the heck is part 2? ;-)
Did you ever mount the antenna outside? Very curious if you noticed any significant speed improvements doing that.
My mother-in-law has poor signal quality while only being 2 miles from the tower. I been debating between the 2 versions they have to make her signal more stable and faster.
I still have mine in the window because it seems to work great as it is.
I have an ATT tower that’s less than 3 miles from my house. The signal that it sends out, missed our property, we connect to one of their towers nearly 7 miles away.
Antenna hook up is inside the modem an use old satellite as booster
There's no amazon link for those wires...
How many bars of signal did you have before, then after?
They could have ditched that silly touchscreen on the top and instead put the external antenna jacks on the back. Thankfully I get enough TMO radiation to cook my breakfast, but I grew up in the country with no cable and we had to turn the TV antenna mast with vice grips to get a different channel, so I feel your pain. Hope you get it dialed in and enjoy the speed.
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That touch screen was better, apparently another company uses these routers, T-Mobile purchased from them, the other model actually points to were it detects the tower from
Was a 2nd review update ever published??
Do you have any updates on this? Have your speeds increased by trying anything new or did you just leave it how it is?
How does TMobile speeds compare to cable and fiber?
N42 (i think) I get 600Mbps down and maybe 20 up.... when I'm on the slower networks my UPLOAD is 100Mbps
T-mobile kinda jumped the gun on deploying these things but in the right areas they are downright insane speeds rivaling fiber even with midband.
If i don't have n42 my DOWNLOAD falls off turning the day but my uploads are still 50-80mbit ... i use this connection primarily for uploading stuff ... it's been a godsend... if it gets lower upload speeds when they upgrade the other tower .... I can take it for the 600mbit download !!! :D
I don’t know if I should get the panel-type exterior antenna or the directional type?
If you have line of sight to the cell tower get the directional type if you don't have line of sight get the panel type, hope this helps you. Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE.
You are going to LOVE when SpaceX/StarLink starts selling their little Internet upload-dish to the retail customers.
I purchased both a panel and a higher gain log periodic to compare. For me, they both worked about the same. Really no improvement over internal antennas. I'm 3.5miles from tower as the crow flies. Flat terrain but 1/3 wooded, 1/3 farmland and 1/3 lake. The only benefit to external antenna is that now I can bring my can inside. Before I had to leave on table under covered porch roof to get a signal. I get 85/0.9 on good day and 40/0.1 on bad day (4G LTE only). Can't pick up 5G at all where I'm at. Maybe not worth the $50/month. Might drop it if my Starlink works (been on waiting list for months).
Thanks for watching! Please Like & Subscribe :) I gotta say I've been really happy with my Waveform antenna it has drastically improved my speeds to where I can do whatever I want on the internet. How high do you have the antennas mounted?
@@matthewmeltonTEAMMELTONFISHING Yup I went with Waveform. Their customer support is top notch. I tried near ground level, first floor, and above 2nd floor. Tried 3 sides of house. Rotated around 360° in ~22.5° increments. Took many hours because also tried various combinations of can rotations at same time. Ended up first floor level (about 12' off gnd level since house sits high). It's not quite highest speed, but easiest to mount/route cables and not much less than best location. Interesting note: If I arrange such that I hit lower bandwidth tower (band 25 vs 41) I get 1/2 the download speed, but get up to 2mbps up. Maybe because the lower frequency has better penetration capability leaving my low power transmitter.
If Starlink becomes actually available and lives up to the hype in large scale operation it will eat a lot of so called ISPs lunch. I got my prepay in!
Do you have info for pig tails
Where is the follow up video with it hung outside?
not to brag, but I'm getting 433 mbps download and 12.3 mbps upload with my T-Mobile.. without antenna and not near a window. I am in a 5g ultra area though... thanks for showing us the setup though, I'm sure it's a boost nonetheless
Awesome speeds with built in antennas. How do you know you are near a 5G ultra tower ? Is there a map you can pull up for these towers ?
@@patshozo9158 you can go to the t-mobile sight...enter your address... it will tell you what the capacity is
skip to 5:30, then skip to 11:45
I think my tower is more or less 150 yards away in a business area but get 3 bars only lots of trees around here , speed is decent between 60 peak hours and up to 235 during low load hours. Still like it and boot at least once a day to rid catch also have a bottom fan and top with a lil tape RGV is a hot humid place Nokia made some poor engineering on this device.
How far away is u tower
I have and most of the time I get 30 mbps down and 12mbps up with the inside ant. On 4g sometimes it do 40 some mbps down and 15mbps up on 2 bars
How can you tell when you are getting 4g vs 5g? I just received my home internet and I can't tell what I'm getting. Thanks.
Those antenna connections are the same as the wireless cards from laptops.
Be very careful with those connections as they can bend one of the male connections.
Yeah they are really fragile! Thanks for watching. ;)
I broke one. Would suggest you take it apart farther before messing with the u.Fl connectors
Ya I have big hands (6"3), They were a bitch. Nice video
My issues are none consistent connection one minute I'm getting 100mbs down the next min I'll get 0.5 down
put it in attic
No “part 2”
I’ve been getting about 0.60 for download and 0.30 for download and I only get 2 bars
😂😂😂
I’m about to ditch my tmobile internet. I can’t even get it to get 1mbps download smh. Hell my phone is 10x faster
Slide the SIM card out after you put it on its side with that visible notch pointing DOWN!!!
The entire video and you skipped the most important part where you actually connect them to the board !!! Ugh !!!
you might as well get cable
Sucks yes . Tmobile is a god send to us out in the woods . But its been bad lately
NEVER put these devices near/against a wall/corner dude. You're killing that signal.
It's too bad they didn't add an external port so you can just plug in an external antenna. But your experience shows how much of a difference an antenna can make for some people.
This guy,
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is only a mile from the Tmobile tower but he tried a bunch of antennas and they didn't help that much. For him, the placement of the cylinder unit, and even rotating it left or right, can make a difference. In one video, he even took it up on his roof.
I'm 8 miles from the tower. I have 4G phone that uses Tmobile towers. I get speeds between 1 and 65 on it, most usually 20 to 30, and I'm hoping the 5G will work on this home internet. The tmobile rep said I should get up to100Mbps speeds and 5G from my location so I'll see when it comes in a few days. Incidentally, prices went from $50/month to $60/month but they are temporarily back to $50/month.
You have the same trash windows as I do LOL. I can't wait to throw all that shit in the dumpster. They cost so much money all year in heating/cooling.
Lol you are right these windows do suck, the damn things are so drafty! Thanks for watching! :)
That's really slow to be honest. Try to find where the tower is and make sure you are facing the antenna toward the tower. I get 300+ mbps without the extra antenna.
$319 ???? DOLLARS ??? Hahahaha FK THAT
I've been playing games via pucks for yrs, ask anyone that gets deployed and for the love of me I wonder how the f in able to play game online with 4g signal and 4glte and back home I struggle to use my tmobile to run my game efficiently lol.. its now 5g in the middle east fast with no damn prob.. internet providers and networks really giving us trash service with hidden restrictions.. you see 5g but are you getting 5g on ya phone.. the home internet pretty sure that's like a puck just bigger.
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Lol....well...it came with a mount...but.....whatever.....lollllll
dear lord man! how da hell! naw
34 minute video. Could have been condensed into 3 minutes.
Well then go watch a 3 minute one somewhere else and try to not get butthurt.
@@matthewmeltonTEAMMELTONFISHING Ethan is right. Cut down on needless babble.
Trump 2024
Wrong place!🙄🙄
@@stevencharles9247 During Trumps time in office, youtube was littered with anti Trump posts. I have a feeling you didnt bother to say "wrong place" when they were posting that garbage.
Not here for Political guidance.😑
@@stevencharles9247 Yeah.... I figured you are a left winger.
THAT WOULD BE A INCORRECT ASSUMPTION.
TMobile home internet is Trash!
I'm able to watch Netflix and use my PS5 without any trouble so I'm super happy with it compared to what they offer in my area. Gotta say it's way better than Hughes Net & ViaSat. Thanks for watching!
Maybe so, but when the only other option available is the steaming turd that is hughesnet or viacom satellite, TM garbage smells pretty good.
I may only get two bars but my internet speed is faster with it then having to go to the library anymore.