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FloodlightMedia
Oct 31, 2017Aspirant
Any upload benefits of dual antennas for a single stream on Nighthawk M1 (MR1100) Mobile Router?
Hi, Our business has purchased the Nighthawk M1 (MR1100) to assist with livestreaming from the field. This involves installing it in a pelican case to protect it from the weather, so we're trying...
- Nov 03, 2017
The M1 does support MIMO on the external antenna and also carrier aggregation in these combinations if the tower supports it
(1800+700, 1800+2600, 2600+700, 2600+2600, 700+1800+2600,1800+2600+2600, 700+2600+2600 MHz). I have experimented with single and two antenna combinations. The local towers around here don't support carrier aggregation so that has no impact. With the single external antenna it seems to cap out at 30 mb/s upload, with a second antenna in MIMO configuration the best I have seen is 33 mb/s on the upload.
FloodlightMedia
Nov 01, 2017Aspirant
I think you may have misread my post. The device supports multiple antennas. I just have no idea if it supports beamforming, or a similarly advantageous technology such as carrier aggregation (I've done more reading since), which would justify us having two antennas installed for the above scenario. Our testing has returned ambiguous results so far.
MicW
Nov 03, 2017Luminary
The M1 does support MIMO on the external antenna and also carrier aggregation in these combinations if the tower supports it
(1800+700, 1800+2600, 2600+700, 2600+2600, 700+1800+2600,1800+2600+2600, 700+2600+2600 MHz). I have experimented with single and two antenna combinations. The local towers around here don't support carrier aggregation so that has no impact. With the single external antenna it seems to cap out at 30 mb/s upload, with a second antenna in MIMO configuration the best I have seen is 33 mb/s on the upload.
- MicWNov 03, 2017Luminary
If you have reasonable line of sight then 2 yagis will give you a focused connection on a particular tower