What’s still strange is that no 5G is displayed on the booster, since it is an independent device and as you say you would have good 5G reception at this location.
For me, the iPhone 12 Mini shows two tick marks and the 5G Booster shows three tick marks.
Installationen, Netzwerk, Internet, Computertechnik, OS Windows, Apple und Linux.
@wolewo I can’t help either, I can only forward it for analysis on Monday. But basically, depending on the location, it is still better today if you can use 4G bands together than one 5G band. That’s how it is for me, as soon as I’m connected to 5G (especially now despite the shit weather), I have around 20-30mbps less performance than with 4G. Otherwise I won’t see 5G in my area anyway.
I recommend one thing: DO NOT use the browser speed test. This does not give any reasonable values for bonding and depends on the current status of the PC/Mac (especially the current CPU load). Use the CNLab Speed Test as an app, then it will be meaningful. And download a large file from myCloud or somewhere else and check the router diagnostics to see if nothing is actually being transferred.
I have the same public IP range of 85… as you, with 4G and 5G. If you keep restarting the router, it may be that we put you in a different IP pool to be safer. I don’t know the rules, but they exist.
Roger G.
Swisscom (Schweiz) AG, Product Manager Wireline Access
Hello Roger,
For me it seems to be different. If the booster has a 5G connection, then I get a 178.xyz.xyz.xyz IP address (public) checked at www.wieistmeineip.de.
If the booster doesn’t work, then I have an 85.xyz.xyz.xyz IP address. I already had this IP address before Internet Booster.
Before lunch I restarted everything and now it works again.
This raises the worrying question of whether you are (secretly) traveling with 2 IPs.
One IP via DSL line and the other via the mobile phone link…
In principle it works, it’s been going like this here for a long time, but I can control it directly who has what over whom…
How is this handled in the SwisscomBox and how can you possibly influence it?
In my case, I brought the Nokia modem to the post office earlier. If someone else should enjoy it, read along with interest.
Best regards
Sasha
You can’t influence this with the 5G booster, but what we’ve heard about the “alleyway” is that in the future if the normal internet line fails, it should continue to work via the booster, just like it did before with the USB mobile stick.
Installationen, Netzwerk, Internet, Computertechnik, OS Windows, Apple und Linux.
No, no, that’s not a mistake. After a certain period of time, 5G is gone and can come back again, depending on whether the 4G bands are more powerful than 5G. This is absolutely normal. Don’t always get hung up on whether 5G is there or not. The main thing is that the booster provides enough bandwidth when it is needed.
Roger G.
Swisscom (Schweiz) AG, Product Manager Wireline Access
@Roger G is absolutely right, it can even be seen explicitly in the diagnostic data of your line:
VDSL2 - NR5GNSA
The NSA at the end of the 5G name means “Not stand alone”.
Your 5G connection is the 5G version of “piggyback 4G” and experience shows that this is actually rather slower than pure 4G.
So everyone be happy that the 5G booster itself is apparently intelligent enough to select the fastest technical connection for itself, regardless of marketing.
P.S.:
Since the terminology surrounding 5G is already completely confusing in terms of marketing, here is another short attempt to classify the variants of 5G already used by Swisscom:
- 5G, 5G wide, 5G NSA —> everything runs piggyback on the 4G infrastructure and is comparable or slower to classic LTE
- 5G+, 5G fast, 5G SA —> requires its own antenna cell tower technology and is (assuming short distances) quite capable of significantly exceeding the speed of previous LTE connections
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