Thanks @WalterB. The number of clients is not that important in my use case, but I would still be interested in the effective data throughput (speed test). How much do you get on average and at the peak in downloads and especially in uploads? Does it vary greatly at different times?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
The speed in a mobile network is such a thing… Not only depends on the utilization of the cell, but also how the network is developed. Basically, you can say that if 5G is available and you have good! reception, you can achieve high values most of the time, even during peak times, be it in the download or in the upload. The best way to find out is to carry out mobile speed tests on site at different times. A possible router should ideally be in the room so that it is aimed at the antenna, or even better directly at the window. The reception has an extremely large influence on the speed, i.e. in the “wrong” room with lower signal strength the speed can be more than half lower.
For example, this router should be good. But I can’t say anything about it myself because I don’t have a 5G router in use.
I have this mobile router 5G CPE PRo 2, I’m amazed that it’s still in the range and I thought it was already out of date?
Works without any problems with the MultiDevice SIM card.
N.B. You can fix 4 or 5G or set it to automatic, the advantage is that if it switches back and forth at the location you can set 4 or 5G permanently.
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I can recommend the ZTE MC801A because it is very cheap and more than sufficient for my needs as a backup WAN. However, you have to be careful with this device because I don’t know whether it is even 5G NSA compatible.
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@Samsi wrote:
The speed in a mobile network is such a thing… Not only dependent on the utilization of the cell, but also how the network is developed. Basically, you can say that if 5G is available and you have good! reception, you can achieve high values most of the time, even during peak times, be it in the download or in the upload. The best way to find out is to carry out mobile speed tests on site at different times.
I would have assessed it that way too. You will bring any radio network to its knees if there are a large number of participants or excessive use/too many users: Campsite on Corsica: no WiFi, no LTE, no 5G until well after midnight. Or in our company, where teams partially fail in the meeting rooms - presumably because of the “neighbor” on the same channel.
I don’t know to what extent today’s 5G receivers differ from antenna design or modems, but I assume that this should slowly converge after 5 years? At least their influence should be negligible in relation to the parameters of your radio link that cannot be influenced? All hypotheses, but an exciting original question…
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@PowerMac: What is your use case for the high upstream bandwidth? Live HDMI video transmission? Do you have the right HW/SW solution that can convert the stream at a high frame rate?
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Correct, the use case is live video streaming, but not HDMI but already compressed using a streaming encoder (something like this).
Thanks for your experiences and hardware tips, I’ll test it with a 5G router and report back to you about the results here.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
@PowerMac By “100 Mbit/s upstream bandwidth” do you mean upload or download? A stable 100Mbit upload could be a challenge - regardless of the 5g router. I have very good 5g reception on my cell phone in many places and almost always achieve 100 Mbit/s or more when downloading, but rarely more than 50 Mbit when uploading (except in the middle of the city of Bern, for example)
