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M1 antenna setup
Hello all, Just ordered 2 Wilson 10dbi yagi's and cables and patch cords, etc. My question is how do you have yours mounted? Stacked, side by side, or + 45 -45 In in a rural area in east T.N. and ...
jpr78"Telnet to the router IP on port 5510. Type ""AT!GSTATUS?" without the quotes. This will show you all the bands the router is currently connected to" Does this command show the same thing the Nighthawk web console shows or something different? If different can you attach a screenshot?
"I'm picking up band4 and band12. band12 is 700mhz and band4 is 1700/2100mhz." I am in the same boat as you. I have one "700MHz only" yagi mounted vertically. My Nighthawk ping pongs between two different cell towers. First tower is band 12. Second tower is band 4. Is this back and forth between band 4 and band 12 happening to you? My band 12 has excellent signal with 5 bars. My band 4 has poor signal with 1 bar.
"Initial results are promising, without the antennas, the signal is not usable." Same as me. Without my one external yagi the Nighthawk is so unreliable that it can not be used as internet solution. My peak download speed is approx 50Mbit with one external 700MHz yagi antenna. Let's assume that my 50Mbit is coming over 700MHz band with my 700MHz antenna. If I add a second antenna, would a second radio in my Nighthawk get another 50Mbit, giving me a total of 100Mbit download? Nighthawk is my only CA device. I have no idea how AT&T handles/implements/restricts CA. But I do know that in order for this Nighthawk to reach the advertised 1000Mbit (1Gbit) max speed the Nighthawk must use multiple radios/bands aggressively.
" Does this command show the same thing the Nighthawk web console shows or something different? If different can you attach a screenshot?"
It shows additional info. The web console will only show me one band which I assume is what the router designates as the primary band. So the console showed me band12 but the telnet command showed both band12 and band4. I cannot attach a screenshot at the moment. I had to give my friend back the router. He has a grandfathered unlimited account and he's going to add a line for me and get me a nighthawk. I'm hoping I'll have it between 4/16 and 4/20. Here's a thread from the forums where someone posts the output of the command. https://community.netgear.com/t5/Mobile-Routers-Hotspots-Modems/Nighthawk-m1-4g-only/m-p/1499583
"I am in the same boat as you. I have one "700MHz only" yagi mounted vertically. My Nighthawk ping pongs between two different cell towers. First tower is band 12. Second tower is band 4. Is this back and forth between band 4 and band 12 happening to you? My band 12 has excellent signal with 5 bars. My band 4 has poor signal with 1 bar."
Yes, it happened to me too. Band12 was good (-87) and Band4 was marginal(-108). I went to bed on band12 and when I woke up, it had jumped over to band4. Surprisingly, with the marginal signal band4 is still fast if not faster than band12(in regards to download it's just as good, upload seems to be capped around 2meg on band4, I can get 4-6meg on band12). I read somewhere people talking about a tower having a band priority(speculation?). So a particular tower could force device to a specific band even if it's not the best signal for you. I'll have more info on band hopping once I get my router and start testing more.
"Let's assume that my 50Mbit is coming over 700MHz band with my 700MHz antenna. If I add a second antenna, would a second radio in my Nighthawk get another 50Mbit, giving me a total of 100Mbit download?"
I don't believe so. I think each antenna will one hook to one band and that's why the nighthawk has 4 antennas but only 2 being accessible for antennas. I saw a pic of someone who had taken the nighthawk completely out of the case and in order to try to access all four antennas. And I swear there is a pic on this forum of another person showing a pic with all four antennas connected.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ATT/comments/7cs5ri/m1_nighthawk_external_antennas_from_pcb_what_size/