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Why is the Nighthawk M1 So Much Better in Australia?
I just happened upon this article from Cellular insights dated 20-Mar-2017. Here they bencharked an AUS revision M1 on Telstra's network more than 18 months ago.
http://cellularinsights.com/te...
Hi Mexoh1To7k,
You are correct, I did not confirm that both devices were on the same band(s) and had the same CA carriers. And you are absolutely correct, this would be essential for a true head to head comparison.
But, in the year that I've owned it, I've never gotten above ~110-120 Mbit from the MR1100. And I've never seen a post from anyone in the USA here on this board or on Howard Forums that has either. Granted my experience is over 5.8GHz 802.11ac w/40Mhz channel -- but this should have a Wifi air link rate of 400Mhz for a 2x2 connection and should easily pass at least 200mbit of real data for a speed test (Fast.com)
With my new iPhone XS Max, which had a number of cellular modem and iOS issues at launch, I now routinely get 110-240 Mbit during my ~90min hour commute to work (slower in NJ 30-100Mbit; faster in PA 90-240Mbit). But from these same cell towers the MR1100 is usualy about half the speed of my iPhone, and peaks at the same ~90-110Mbit.
You're absolutely correct -- it could be carrier settings, band selection, CA preference / capability, broken MIMO (Wifi or Cellular), lack of support for high levels of QAM, etc.
I'm hopeful the new "5G" puck will have better LTE (-: I could care less about 5G. Similarly, I could are less about LAA. It's of no use to me anyway due to the limited geographic capability and the fact that I'd have to disable 5.8GHz Wifi on my MR1100
You're actually hurting your LTE performance when connecting to the Nighthawk via WiFi. Disable it's WiFi and connect via USB or Ethernet. Now the Nighthawk will benefit from LAA if supported and at the very least - have better signal quality.
Hi shawnwager ,
Unfortunately, LAA is nearly as big of a farse as 5G. Very little LAA is deployed throughout the United States. Where it does exist is only in a dozen or so urban cores.
While I agree that USB connectivity (USB3 to a USB3 computer) may give better performance than Wifi. Unfortunately, the vast majority of my clients (phones, tablets, streaming devices, etc.) don't support USB connectivity. Fortunately the MR1100 has Ethernet though this is not really helpful in a mobility sense. The new M5 Fusion does not.
There's no reason 5GHz 802.11ac @ 40MHz or 80MHz with 2x2 Wifi Streams shouldn't support at least 200-400Mbit sustained -- assuming the embedded CPU on the MR1100 is able to push that much data.
But, given the inability of the MR1100 to keep pace with my iPhone (barely matching my old 6s and getting smoked by the XSM) there's seriously something amiss with the MR1100. I suspect the limited FCC approvals for QAM and MIMO combined with restrictions from AT&T's network is hobbling it.
Unfortunately, the M5 is looking like a dud so far. Fortunately (sarcasm) AT&T just re-introduced the Mobley (-: