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Hi everybody. I’m living inside a motorhome inside a metal shop with a metal roof. I have AT&T iPhones with around one bar of signal. Not much good for anything, certainly not data. So I wired up a y...
Hi Skich,
Unfortunately the MR1100 has 4 antennas, but only two are accessible via the TS-9 connections. Before investing too much in different antennas and cabling, I would suggest a simple test:
1) Put your MR1100 in a bag or plastic box outside. Mount it as high as you can (on the roof of the show is probably fine -- but i would raise it up above the sheet metal on a plastic crate / box. Run power to it, and Ethernet from it.
2) Run the Ethernet from the shop roof into your trailer and test the connection with a PC/laptop.
3) if the speed is good enough, buy an inexpensive wireless access point (like this one -- TP-Link EAP225) and use it to broadcast the signal throughout your trailer.
Alternatively, try your antenna setup using just one of the TS-9 connectors. Try one than the other and compare. You might need to powercycle the MR1100 everytime you change your setup to get it to reaquire.
What frequencies are your antennas, cabeling, amplifier designed for? Are you sure you are covering all modern bands (AT&T especially keeps moving stuff around).
Alternatively you might need to step up to a better cellular modem -- like something from MOFI -- using your current unlimited plan
-Jonathan