Poynting 4G-XPOL-A0001 Cross Polarised 4G Omni LTE Antenna

I live in a fringe 4G area and have tried all sorts of addon 'whip' aerials for my Teltonika 4G router, each antenna set has made some difference in signal and/or stability of the signal - all have been loft installed pinned to rafters. With the router supplied antennas I struggled to get 5 Mbps down and it was flaky. I ordered this external aerial as a 'punt' and, already, am seeing definite benefits. I have just installed it temporarily in my loft while I wait for mounting hardware. Prior to installation of this unit I was using two LTE 'high gain' whips (cheap but effective) and these improved my signal stability greatly and speed increased to over 12Mbps, sometimes 20 but it was still unstable. Several speed tests before and after installation show an average upload improvement of about 20 Mbps (now 40 Mbps or greater), upload has shown about 8Mbps improvement (again this is compared to my router with better aerials, not the originals supplied). I am being conservative with the numbers here. I am quite confident I can improve the speeds somewhat by getting the aerial outside and in the clear and will update this accordingly. I should also say I installed one of these Poynting aerials for a neighbour who had zero 4G signal on her phone handset. We could not achieve a stable connection using a teltonika router with it's supplied magnetic whips. We installed this Poynting aerial upstairs (again in loft space, while waiting for an installer) and achieved a good consistent 21+ Mbps upload / 45 - 61 Mbps Download. Again, I would expect improvement with the aerial located outside in the clear. Both my neighbour and I had been battling with BT to get any service at all, both being at the end of poorly maintained and very long overhead copper. Internet is not a luxury in this day and age, especially out in the sticks. Both connections discussed above are with EE and very much cheaper than a very poor quality landline and ADSL in name only (not to mention the stress of dealing with BT). Mobile handsets can piggyback of the EE connection. I am quite happy with the construction of the aerials, it is supplied with 5M leads terminating in SMA male. The plastics are solid, I can not see anywhere water could ingress and the cables are of sufficient quality to last. I have no qualms about mounting this hardware outside - even in northern Scotland where the weather tends to weed out poor quality hardware. I recommend this product based on 11 years of trying to get BT service without incurring either a coronary or breakdown, several experiments with 4G hardware and 35 years of being a licensed radio operator - not to mention the ability to actually use iPlayer and Amazon Prime Video from these remote wind blown parts.

I have gone from landline broadband of 0.2 mbps to over 11 mbps this is incredible given that my mobile phone reception is so poor and only works with a booster. This ariel was simple to connect and worked straight out of the box. It took a little bit of time to find the exact position but if you live in a good reception area my friend who I recommended this product to went from 4mbps to over 90 mbps in rural Scotland. Everything was included in the box and for once a product just worked, with the omni direction and a good dual router its an excellent product. It gives a good consistent speed it will drop slightly in extremely bad weather but so does a mobile phone, it can also be a bit slower at peak times but again that is more to do with the provider than the equipment. If your looking at this product ave no doubts about buying it as it really does work, its well made and has been exposed over the last few weeks to a variety of severe weather situations and it still continues on. I currently have it stuck to the outside of my window and despite the wind and the rain it hasn't moved. With the good results I got I was contacted by a company who said that their ariel could increase my speed to at least 60mbps, well two hours later and they could not match the speed I was getting with this ariel. Their product was over three times the price of this and was actually quite flimsy when I saw it. If you are looking to purchase you will not be disappointed .

I bought this along with a 4G router. As they work as an integrated pair it is hard to review one part without accepting some performance will be won or lost by the other. That being said I have bolted this to the side of my house and the router says I have 100% signal strength; it doesn’t get better than that of course. On the other hand, the mast I connect to is only 550m away from my house with a largely uninterrupted line of sight. Truth be told I probably don’t need this external antenna however I wanted to make sure I had the best results I could get. Why only 4 stars if I get a 100% signal strength? Firstly, the product come with hammer fix fastenings which I don’t like to work with. I would prefer regular screws and Rawl plugs or better yet expanding bolts. I guess the thinking is everybody has a hammer but then you still need a drill and if you have a drill you have a screwdriver. Anyway that alone isn’t enough to lose a star, there are no cable clips with it. It is unescapable that you will be running a cable down a wall at some point so why no clips? I am aware when some people buy a product they expect every conceivable accessory to be included with it at no extra cost however in this case I really do feel five to ten clips would not have broken the profit margin for Poynting. The last issue is perhaps the most irritating. To angle the antenna you must loosen a plastic lock nut under the bracket so you can lift the splines on the main casing out of the retaining collar on the bracket. The nut is stiff to turn which is irritating and given you may well be doing this while on a ladder possibility adds an extra element of danger. It is still because this is also where the cable runs into the body of the antenna enclosure and it has some kind of silicone/rubber/nylon type packing in the hole the collar turns around. This is for weather proofing of course but the extra friction I would imagine puts the cables under extra strain as you turn the lock nut. I would liked to have seen a proper cable gland providing weather sealing and protection for the cable with perhaps an isolated lock nut for freeing the body from the splines for adjustment. In summary we have a product that is easy enough to install but not as easy as it could have been. Is easy enough to adjust but not as easy as it could have been and is well enough made but not as well designed as it could have been. It is worth reading the notes for installers on their website especially in regards of reducing cable strain by attaching it to the bracket and not letting the cable simply hang down and also allowing for a drip loop to allow water to run off (and not follow the cable into your building!). This product works well enough and I would imagine there are commercial/industrial quality products that are better perhaps more robust but at a higher price. This seems to be a consumer product and I guess the design reflects a balance between build quality, ease of use and cost. If you have marginal 4G reception you should certainly get one of these or the directional one if you know where to point it. If you are relying on equipment for commercial use where you can’t risk downtime maybe, just maybe there is a commercial quality unit you should look for.

It is great product

Je possède un abonnement 4G Box Bouygues avec une relative proximité des relais réseaux. Avec la 4g Box seule j'avais des gros soucis aux heures de pointes et le soir car très grosses baisses de débits en gros je plafonnais entre 5-13Mb voir moins le soir. D'abord j'ai essayé les antennes à ventouses à la vitre, la première qu'on trouve à 15-20€ a permis tout de même après avoir trouvé le placement optimum de stabiliser un peu la connexion, mais bon toujours ces grosses baisses et Netflix qui tombe dans une mauvaise résolution le soir. J'ai voulu essayé le modèle Netgear à 70€ mais gain quasi identique que l'antenne bas de gamme à 15€, renvoyé... Ensuite je me suis dit allez je tente un modèle onéreux un de ceux les plus recommandé sur Amazon mais (dans mon cas encore une fois je précise) le gain était pas là ... grosse douche froide, j'avais essayé de l'orienter comme il faut de bien la placer mais non vraiment, la cata.. Enfin en ayant renvoyé les précédentes j'ai testé celle là, c'était un peu la dernière carte et ce fut la bonne !! Le seul défaut que je trouve à cette antenne c'est les ventouses une calamité à enfoncer correctement. J'ai de toute façon priviligié à la fin un placement sur un mat le collier à visser est trés pratique d'ailleurs. Niveau perf, je baisse en signal mais grosse nouveauté je me connecte en 1800Mhz en 4g+ là où avant j'étais en 800Mhz avec plus de barres certes mais un débit inférieur (pour résumé pour ceux qui le savent pas, les opérateurs émettent plusieurs fréquences, plus c'est bas plus ca traverse les murs mais moins le débit est important en gros). Donc oui j'ai moins de barre mais voilà là où j'avais 5-6mbvoir une dizaine max en heure de pointe je suis maintenant entre 20 et 30 Mb !!! Et çà change tout au niveau confort et streaming De mon point de vue si vous avez une seule antenne à acheter prenez celle là ! pour la connecter à la 4g box il vous faudra un adaptateur SMA - TS9, j'ai aussi pris des cables plat pour passer par la fenêtre sans percer.

Compré esta antena tras leer muchísimos comentarios de distintos modelos ya que era Omnidireccional. Al no tener visión directa con la antena del operador incluso estando muy cerca, en mi caso menos de 1,5km, entre pinos y una pequeña vaguada, la señal era muy baja, aproximadamente unos -115/-120dbi lo que corresponde a una señal de mala calidad. En muchos sitios me dijeron que una direccional también me serviría si la enfocaba correctamente aunque no tuviese visión directa pero no fue así. Compré una antena Wonect direccional de color negro que podéis ver en alguna foto y no funcionó bajo mis necesidades de localización. La antena Poynting la estoy utilizando con un router Huawei B535-235, anteriormente usé un TPLINK MR6400 que medio funcionó bien unos días y luego falló más que una escopeta de feria por lo cual terminé devolviendo y comprando el Huawei que funciona muchísimo mejor, con más potencia, mayor cobertura y más estabilidad en la señal, no hay color de uno a otro y si estas dudando no te lo pienses. Ahora obtengo una señal de -95dbi lo que se considera una buena señal y he pasado de descargar de unos 1,5 - 4Mbps a una velocidad máxima de 30-35mbps. ¡¡¡¡Ojo, no siempre alcanzo esta velocidad!!!! depende de muchos factores, en mi caso al vivir en una zona de segundas residencias, los fines de semana, aumenta el número de habitantes/domingueros y al parecer la red se satura por lo que la velocidad baja pero esto ya no es problema de router o antena sino del operador. El resto del tiempo, entre semana y días relativamente normales, tengo una bajada de 10-15 megas mínimo. La antena la puse en el exterior sobre un mástil, visualizando en google maps la dirección de la antena del operador, comprobando con el router y el móvil donde obtenía más cobertura, no hace falta mucho más ya que al ser omnidireccional, la antena orienta el núcleo de recepción hacia donde más potencia recibe. A los 15 min de estar en el tejado ya tenía varios vecinos de la urbanización interesándose por la solución ya que estamos todos en las mismas. "Gracias Movistar por no ponernos fibra y pedir a las operadoras locales más de 1500€ por poste de madera pagado con dinero público cuando erais Telefónica para poder lanzar el cable" Según el fabricante la ganancia de dbi es poca, sino recuerdo mal, unos +2dbi, pero en la realidad funciona mucho mejor que eso. No soy ningún profesional ni antenista, simplemente me volví freak por unos días y probé varias soluciones hasta dar con la buena, a mi esta me funciona. Espero os sirva y os ahorre el tiempo que yo invertí en dar con ella. Saludos!!!

Leider ist die Antenne verbunden mit einem o2-Homespot nicht zu gebrauchen! Egal wie man die Antenne ausrichtet, dass Signal wird nicht besser. Ohne diese Antenne ist mein 3G/LTE Empfang um weiten besser als mit dieser. Am o2-Homespot wurde auch die Aussenantenne aktiviert, falls einige denken es würde daran liegen. Ob ein defekt an der Antenne vorliegt kann ich nicht beurteilen, sie geht an Amazon Retoure.

Non avendo un'ottima copertura nella mia zona per Wind Tre (ho la sim abbonamento del webcube) ed avendo un router Huawei B535-232 ho preso questa antenna della Poynting. Un'ottima antenna installata sul balcone al primo piano, ha portato il segnale quasi al massimo. Il ripetitore e' a 1700 mt. circa e con l'app Hilink Huawei avevo con antenna integrata le barre tra rosso e arancione con un download a 5 mbit/sec. Ora segna la barra sul blu e si raggiungono 40/50 mbit/sec. Bisogna fare delle prove per capire il punto migliore di ricezione, ma se avete accesso al tetto credo sia ancora piu' semplice.