Merry Christmas Morten, there definitely is a steep learning curve with the Mikrotik router OS to get the most out of it, first step would be to find out what channels Vodafone Portugal uses and if they use carrier aggregation. I can see lots of googling ahead for this one but the forums seem to have most problems covered. The connector is a tool-less field connector, you only ned a pair of pliers to make your connection and its reusable. The guitar pick was to pry open the cover for the cat5 lead but you managed to feed it through without having to take that bit off, so no problem. Hope you have fun with your new toy, and if all else fails you can just tape your pocket modem to the dish focal point .👍
Thank you again for this awesome gift,, I was so happy that I managed to get it working, before I had to leave for home (it was to close) User "Jo Cool" send me a map of cell towers in Portugal, and the closest one is just 1,5km on the other side of my mountain. It would make good video putting it up there and have 250 meter fiber going to the house,, but also a lot of work :-/ But I think I will mount a pole up there, try and mount it and bring my laptop. To a start.
So cool of Scotty B! Morten, i like you calm demeanor interspersed with ocassional expression of irritation as you walk your viewers through what you're working on. Makes me feel less tech-klutzy 😄. Yes, that is a very cool Star Wars looking thingy!
Glad you enjoyed it! I think it is more StarTrek,, Star Wars stuff always look more used,, well maybe this is an Imperial antena,, I am in trouble!! :-)
i have the same antenna and i am able to get 100Mbps down / 30 Mbps up with 10km distance to cell tower. You have to do few things: 1) check on some map the location of cell towers in your area (for your operator of course), then 2) find place where to mount the antenna outside and 3) check which bands operator is using. you have the option to choose particular band (or group of bands) in case your operator supports CA. you may be in a situation where antenna is connecting to the strongest signal, but on that bands 8, 20 (e.g. 800, 900MHz) there might be only 5-10MHz channel. Then check other bands 1, 3, 7 (e.g. 1800, 2100, 2600MHz), which should have much higher bandwidth (e.g. 15-20MHz).
I build my own out of an old TV dish antenna a few years ago. The were no consumer grade solutions back then. This kit looks great but I doubt it's gonna resist more that a couple of years to the Greek summer UVs here. The sun bakes everything that is not made of metal on my little island.
Well, you have the LHG and not the LHGG kit. Secondly i have the LHGG LTE6 version and what ive learned using it is that youll need a really-really good LOS (Line of Sight) with the cell tower. Carrier Aggregation will do work with the unit as long as there are multiple cell towers in range. But CA will not help a lot as this kit comes with a unidirectional antenna. I switched btw to the Chateau 5g with Poynting antennas (i modified the chateau 5g). If you wish, thanks for the Router OS, you can enable IP passtrough and you can use your own router. BUT! Make a VLAN on the LHG and enable DHCP Client on it, make a VLAN on your own routers WAN interface and enable DHCP server, that way you can always connect to your modem nad you dont have to do double natting. Lastly i had some issues with my LHGG unit, and not sure if it is caused by the unit or the carrier but i had to restart my device using a script. If you ever encounter the same, sudden performance issues (higher latency + slow download and or upload speeds) just restart the LHG and everythings going to be alright again. What ive done is i wrote a script to reboot the unit every single night when everyone is sleeping. Solved my problems.
Merry Christmas jon hart More videos will come, when I am in my house in Portugal. and there are two more in the pipeline,, with a tiny bit of Portugal in them. Thank you for watching! :-)
During a internship some time ago I installed quite a lot of 4G routers from mikrotik. But we put them in passthrough so we could leave the routing to a router.
I remember a similar looking CAT 6 or 7 RJ45 for use in a zoned environment. (Ex) Guessing that one might be IP68 as zoned doesn't really make much sense outside in Australia but water/dust resistance probably would.
LTE6 is that designate CAT 6 carrier aggregation? If it is Carrier aggregation version 6 then it will bond 10 or 20 Mhz segments each of two bands and you'll get maybe speeds of 45 to 50 megabit per second or more, the latest is CAT 20 and CAT 21 which will support the bonding of five bands getting you up in the range of around 800 Mbps all depending on the signal quality, strength, cell site congestion and permissions to allow you the use of that many segments of bandwidth to achieve that speed.
Digi EX50 CAT 20 5G 4G LTE Advanced Pro WIFI 6, dual 2.5 Gbps Ethernet ports POE and It also has an internal antennas and it can operate off of battery power so you can go mobile with it and it's small in size I would be getting that if it wasn't for the fact that I can't get unlimited cellular internet here in the states and keep getting jerked around I finally was able to get a terrestrial cable buried it's costing a lot but I'll be done with that and since retiring I'll now be able to start doing remote work in my previous field IT support
Ahh that classic interference of the cell network oh how i missed that. Awsome video would love to see you mount that on the roof to get the best signal you can get.
The Mikrotik LHGG LTE6 CPE is powered through 24V passive PoE. Normally, it will include a PoE injector and a power supply (RBGPOE and 18POW or 24HPOW). Also, since it is an outdoor device, I recommend an Ethernet surge protection device like the Mikrotik GESP or the GESP+PoE-IN (PoE injector with surge protection).
very good setup. logically with the graphics - hanging the antenna you will be much better. that's what I did at first and I got 5 to 6 Mbps, then after I hung up I got 900 (5g)
Yes,, holding it out the window is not the way to go,, time was very limited. I have found that the nearest tower is on the other side of my mountain,, so more fun to come :-)
Yes,, this was one hand holding it out the window and the other trying to point the camcorder at the screen. :-) I was extremally happy to be able to show it working,, as this was the night before I flew home to Denmark,,,, and there was sooooo many settings :-/
@@MyPlayHouse it should be ridiculously good if it actually is, they're used in datacenters and go up to 40Gbps over 100m. I'm pretty sure it's included as a joke just like the plectrum 😉
hey Morten now you know how we giants feel in the regular world with doorposts 🤕 After hitting yourself countless times you'll learn to bend down, even when it's not necessary 😄
looks like that your just in the 2G bands your so far of the base-station probably or you need to put the antenna on the roof of your playhouse maybe but if you're in the middle of Nowhere maybe you can became an ISP provider for your neighbors by building your own LTE base-station and get paid monthly
Don’t you need a free line of sight on the cell tower you are connecting to? Just like a satellite dish has to be pointing at the satellite, without trees or buildings obstructing the view. And why not use the POE switch for this dish? 15 days unlimited internet access for 15 euros is a killer deal.
Yes,, holding it out the window is not the way to go,, time was very limited. I moves over a 100GB in those 10-ish days,, so I got something for my money! :-)
That has helped a lot,, I see that I have the nearest mast on the other side of my maintain, and a distances of 1,5km from top. The mast has all three mobil internet providers.
I am very close to something usable with the router in the glass,, if this can give me internet in a cable instead, and just a little faster,, we are there! :-)
@@MyPlayHouse :) merry christmas…. and i recommend to dw winbox app for setup mikrotik ros… web be sometimes buggy…. I personaly use mikrotik as router with unifi u6pro for perfect wireless…. Mikrotik work like setup and forget and thats fine :))
@@MyPlayHouse Yes, this can be accurate regarding towers/antennas. You can use websites such as CellMapper to determine the bands (and theoretical speed) any given tower has, if it's been recently mapped or updated. This cannot account for factors such as backhaul and density, but rather the antennas potential speed
I would agree that the plastic could be a bit better, but they go for 110 on Amazon here in the US. I was looking at a LTE like device and Ubiquiti has one, but appears to be ATT only (not a fan of ATT), and 2x the price of the LHGG..Get what you pay for. Im looking to get this for a ham radio project (ARDEN) so looks very interesting.. Great video, love the walk thru
@@MyPlayHouse Unfortunately the price is not stable: in France it changed from 99€ (without data cap) to 49€ (with data cap). In portugal I think it's 65€/month. But in Danmark it's still 100€/month?
@@frederichardy8844 I had considered starlink but at the whims of a obsessive compulsive person at the helm I decided it's not worth an investment with that particular service provider
@@topc5826 yeah, technically a good product but, as I mentioned about the price instability, I do understand your opinion. The problem is that there's no serious competitor for the moment, I hope that will change...
You’re making good progress on your Portuguese Playhouse Morten! Keep at it. Loving the videos from Portugal!
There is a few more videos comming, from Portugal,, but I am safely back in cold Denmark.
Merry Christmas Morten, there definitely is a steep learning curve with the Mikrotik router OS to get the most out of it, first step would be to find out what channels Vodafone Portugal uses and if they use carrier aggregation. I can see lots of googling ahead for this one but the forums seem to have most problems covered. The connector is a tool-less field connector, you only ned a pair of pliers to make your connection and its reusable. The guitar pick was to pry open the cover for the cat5 lead but you managed to feed it through without having to take that bit off, so no problem. Hope you have fun with your new toy, and if all else fails you can just tape your pocket modem to the dish focal point .👍
Thank you again for this awesome gift,, I was so happy that I managed to get it working, before I had to leave for home (it was to close) User "Jo Cool" send me a map of cell towers in Portugal, and the closest one is just 1,5km on the other side of my mountain. It would make good video putting it up there and have 250 meter fiber going to the house,, but also a lot of work :-/
But I think I will mount a pole up there, try and mount it and bring my laptop. To a start.
@My PlayHouse a fiber run would be a great idea, maybe ask exfo to sponsor it and get free testing 😉
So cool of Scotty B!
Morten, i like you calm demeanor interspersed with ocassional expression of irritation as you walk your viewers through what you're working on. Makes me feel less tech-klutzy 😄. Yes, that is a very cool Star Wars looking thingy!
Glad you enjoyed it! I think it is more StarTrek,, Star Wars stuff always look more used,, well maybe this is an Imperial antena,, I am in trouble!! :-)
i have the same antenna and i am able to get 100Mbps down / 30 Mbps up with 10km distance to cell tower. You have to do few things: 1) check on some map the location of cell towers in your area (for your operator of course), then 2) find place where to mount the antenna outside and 3) check which bands operator is using. you have the option to choose particular band (or group of bands) in case your operator supports CA. you may be in a situation where antenna is connecting to the strongest signal, but on that bands 8, 20 (e.g. 800, 900MHz) there might be only 5-10MHz channel. Then check other bands 1, 3, 7 (e.g. 1800, 2100, 2600MHz), which should have much higher bandwidth (e.g. 15-20MHz).
Thank You,,, I did not have time, or a pole that would do the job... But I am looking forward to playing with this again. :-)
I build my own out of an old TV dish antenna a few years ago. The were no consumer grade solutions back then. This kit looks great but I doubt it's gonna resist more that a couple of years to the Greek summer UVs here. The sun bakes everything that is not made of metal on my little island.
I think the Portugees sun,, is just about as ruthless as the Greek,, so we will see :-)
Well, you have the LHG and not the LHGG kit. Secondly i have the LHGG LTE6 version and what ive learned using it is that youll need a really-really good LOS (Line of Sight) with the cell tower. Carrier Aggregation will do work with the unit as long as there are multiple cell towers in range. But CA will not help a lot as this kit comes with a unidirectional antenna. I switched btw to the Chateau 5g with Poynting antennas (i modified the chateau 5g). If you wish, thanks for the Router OS, you can enable IP passtrough and you can use your own router. BUT! Make a VLAN on the LHG and enable DHCP Client on it, make a VLAN on your own routers WAN interface and enable DHCP server, that way you can always connect to your modem nad you dont have to do double natting.
Lastly i had some issues with my LHGG unit, and not sure if it is caused by the unit or the carrier but i had to restart my device using a script. If you ever encounter the same, sudden performance issues (higher latency + slow download and or upload speeds) just restart the LHG and everythings going to be alright again. What ive done is i wrote a script to reboot the unit every single night when everyone is sleeping. Solved my problems.
Thank You for all your good info,, I am also confused about if or not it is a LHGG,, as the pic I have seen,, it looks ever so slightly different.
@@MyPlayHouse On "Webfig" or "winbox" can see model under "System --> Routerboard"
Happy Christmas morten interesting to see more vids from the new house
Merry Christmas jon hart
More videos will come, when I am in my house in Portugal. and there are two more in the pipeline,, with a tiny bit of Portugal in them.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi Morten, thanks again for another year of cool videos. Have a great Christmas and a Happy new year. :)
Merry Christmas TrollingAround
Thank you for watching! :-)
During a internship some time ago I installed quite a lot of 4G routers from mikrotik. But we put them in passthrough so we could leave the routing to a router.
I am planning on a PFsense router,, so I will have to do something similar.
That's smashing :-D
I did laugh at the dish cooking program, just drizzle the dish with olive oil lol.
Thank You,, I had already forgot about that joke. :-)
Try Cellmapper to locate towers that you can use. The one with the strongest signal may not be the best one.
a Subscriber send me a link to a map... nearest tower is on the other side of my mountain :-/
excuse me, when sir using so smooth signal or not?
I have seen a very nice and stable signal from it.
I remember a similar looking CAT 6 or 7 RJ45 for use in a zoned environment. (Ex)
Guessing that one might be IP68 as zoned doesn't really make much sense outside in Australia but water/dust resistance probably would.
Scotty B. says it is a tool-less field connector. :-) (I did not manage to get it apart,,guess I am a dumb tool) :-)
LTE6 is that designate CAT 6 carrier aggregation? If it is Carrier aggregation version 6 then it will bond 10 or 20 Mhz segments each of two bands and you'll get maybe speeds of 45 to 50 megabit per second or more, the latest is CAT 20 and CAT 21 which will support the bonding of five bands getting you up in the range of around 800 Mbps all depending on the signal quality, strength, cell site congestion and permissions to allow you the use of that many segments of bandwidth to achieve that speed.
45 to 50 megabit per second,, would be just fine for my needs :-)
I am not sure,, they claim 150Mbit speeds,, that would need gigabit connection.
Digi EX50 CAT 20 5G 4G LTE Advanced Pro WIFI 6, dual 2.5 Gbps Ethernet ports POE and It also has an internal antennas and it can operate off of battery power so you can go mobile with it and it's small in size I would be getting that if it wasn't for the fact that I can't get unlimited cellular internet here in the states and keep getting jerked around I finally was able to get a terrestrial cable buried it's costing a lot but I'll be done with that and since retiring I'll now be able to start doing remote work in my previous field IT support
Ahh that classic interference of the cell network oh how i missed that. Awsome video would love to see you mount that on the roof to get the best signal you can get.
Well there was nothing in real life,, only heard it in the editing :-/
Marry Christmas Morten :)
Merry Christmas Finn
Thank you for watching! :-)
The Mikrotik LHGG LTE6 CPE is powered through 24V passive PoE. Normally, it will include a PoE injector and a power supply (RBGPOE and 18POW or 24HPOW). Also, since it is an outdoor device, I recommend an Ethernet surge protection device like the Mikrotik GESP or the GESP+PoE-IN (PoE injector with surge protection).
I might try to make this solar powered,, as I might want to put in on top of my mountain :-)
it says it takes from 12-57Volts.
@@MyPlayHouse That's a great idea. Most solar power systems generate 12V to 48V DC.
very good setup. logically with the graphics - hanging the antenna you will be much better. that's what I did at first and I got 5 to 6 Mbps, then after I hung up I got 900 (5g)
Yes,, holding it out the window is not the way to go,, time was very limited.
I have found that the nearest tower is on the other side of my mountain,, so more fun to come :-)
@@MyPlayHouse great care when you do it. and Merry Christmas
Morten, SINR is too low!!!! You need to point it better! to the telco antenna!
would aim for > +5dB SINR. Better closer to +10dB!
Yes,, this was one hand holding it out the window and the other trying to point the camcorder at the screen. :-) I was extremally happy to be able to show it working,, as this was the night before I flew home to Denmark,,,, and there was sooooo many settings :-/
15:10 its funny how you can hear the interference from radio waves
Fun and fun,, I thought is was a bit irritating,, as I should probably have thought of that.. :-)
Good video Martin, Keep these coming. You should look at the Mikrotik WirelessWire kit. You would love it !! Cheap like Borsh too !!
I had a look,, they are bloody expensive!!
@@MyPlayHouse 300$ Canadian for a pair of all ready configured out of the box 1gig ptp links ? No way, that’s freaking cheap.
The quintessential Rooster of Barcelos!!!
Have you tried the wine there?
No,,, :-) to me it looked more like a tourist trap :-)
Please 🙏. Can someone help me with this LGH product? Is not in my country for sale. I have the MikroTik board.
You have to get it online,,, amazon or ebay.. or maybe aliexpress..
I have this exact one! Back when our office had zero internet
I recommend using 'Winbox' software, you can connect to it even if you mess up network over multicast or something in the 'neighbors' section
did it work for You ?
@@MyPlayHouse It did work. It wasn't that fast, but it was reliable. I had to point directly at the tower within a few degrees.
it looks like a cat8 connector, but that would be way too OP for just a 4G-uplink
It looks really good quality,, and a little bit danagues,, as it will be the thing you plug it in to,,,that brakes :-)
@@MyPlayHouse it should be ridiculously good if it actually is, they're used in datacenters and go up to 40Gbps over 100m. I'm pretty sure it's included as a joke just like the plectrum 😉
hey Morten now you know how we giants feel in the regular world with doorposts 🤕 After hitting yourself countless times you'll learn to bend down, even when it's not necessary 😄
:-) Bend over,, or take the pain!!
looks like that your just in the 2G bands your so far of the base-station probably or you need to put the antenna on the roof of your playhouse maybe but if you're in the middle of Nowhere maybe you can became an ISP provider for your neighbors by building your own LTE base-station and get paid monthly
Yes,, holding it out the window is not the way to go,, time was very limited.
I'm impressed great
I think this will give me good internet,, but I found out that the nearest mast is on the other side of my mountain. So a challenge there.
Don’t you need a free line of sight on the cell tower you are connecting to? Just like a satellite dish has to be pointing at the satellite, without trees or buildings obstructing the view.
And why not use the POE switch for this dish?
15 days unlimited internet access for 15 euros is a killer deal.
Yes,, holding it out the window is not the way to go,, time was very limited.
I moves over a 100GB in those 10-ish days,, so I got something for my money! :-)
I found a page where you can look for the antennas on a map, but YT keeps deleting my comment with the link. 😞
Try doing it like this "MMM Playhouse dk / Shop"
@@MyPlayHouse I've sent it to the shop e-mail now.
Thank You!! I got it..
That has helped a lot,, I see that I have the nearest mast on the other side of my maintain, and a distances of 1,5km from top. The mast has all three mobil internet providers.
@@MyPlayHouse I'm happy for that! With mountains (montes, serras) it might always get a little difficult. But hey!, my Xmas present to you!! 😀😊
I think its gonna be problem with band limitation.... check if its international or eu vesion.... its can be au version and thats be a problem....
I am very close to something usable with the router in the glass,, if this can give me internet in a cable instead, and just a little faster,, we are there! :-)
@@MyPlayHouse :) merry christmas…. and i recommend to dw winbox app for setup mikrotik ros… web be sometimes buggy…. I personaly use mikrotik as router with unifi u6pro for perfect wireless…. Mikrotik work like setup and forget and thats fine :))
LHGG?
Acronym: Lincoln Hills Genealogy Group 😂
Yep,, that is them :-)
Morten, check the best 4G ISP provider in that area because some 4G providers have different speed limit.
Okay,, I have also heard that it might not be the closest antenna that gives you the best speed.
@@MyPlayHouse Yes, this can be accurate regarding towers/antennas. You can use websites such as CellMapper to determine the bands (and theoretical speed) any given tower has, if it's been recently mapped or updated. This cannot account for factors such as backhaul and density, but rather the antennas potential speed
I would agree that the plastic could be a bit better, but they go for 110 on Amazon here in the US. I was looking at a LTE like device and Ubiquiti has one, but appears to be ATT only (not a fan of ATT), and 2x the price of the LHGG..Get what you pay for. Im looking to get this for a ham radio project (ARDEN) so looks very interesting.. Great video, love the walk thru
Thank You very much.
It might become even more interesting,, as it turns out that the nearest mast is just on the other side of my mountain. hummm :-)
what's the ubiquiti model?
@@jpmorgan187
Mfr Part#: ULTEUS
Ubiquiti Networks UniFi LTE AT&T
Starlink is not in your budget?
I would if I was there all the time,, but when I am only there a week every second month,, that is expensive.
@@MyPlayHouse Unfortunately the price is not stable: in France it changed from 99€ (without data cap) to 49€ (with data cap). In portugal I think it's 65€/month. But in Danmark it's still 100€/month?
Yes,, that is also about €130 for the one week of internet, when I need it,,, that is a lot,, i pay 1/4 in Denmark for a 1000/1000Mbit fiber :-/
@@frederichardy8844 I had considered starlink but at the whims of a obsessive compulsive person at the helm I decided it's not worth an investment with that particular service provider
@@topc5826 yeah, technically a good product but, as I mentioned about the price instability, I do understand your opinion. The problem is that there's no serious competitor for the moment, I hope that will change...
that looks like the new cat7/8 toolless connector
Scotty B. says it is a tool-less field connector. :-) (I did not manage to get it apart,,guess I am a dumb tool) :-)
Looks like a tool less RJ45 connector 🤔
Yes Scotty B. also said that. Thank You.
@@MyPlayHouse figured he would also tell you that after the video 😁
Happy holidays! 🎄
Hmmmm..... can you call Vodafone and ask them where the nearest transmitter antenna is?
I probably could,, I would probably also be spending ½ my day in there telefon system :-/
Yep, very true. :(
Morten, 14:10, you might want to edit that.
Yes I see what you mean,, it should be fixed in a few hours,, irritated that I missed that,, Thank You!
Morten to moonbase, over…. Thank you for making these videos!
I think they have a better signal than me :-)
the middle of nowhere is right near my house
Neighbor :-)
@@MyPlayHouse no please no god, please no god (the office)
Get Starlink
I would if I was there all the time,, but when I am only there a week every second month,, that is expensive.