Remote Mikrotik LHGG LTE6 4G router with a WiFi Bridge - 1292

[@Евгений-э2е3т]

I advise you to put the power injector in a sealed box. I myself use the MikroTik Lhg LTE 4g kit on my site, but I fixed it on the house. A very powerful and reliable device.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Евгений Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@Peter195267]

Put your antenna box at house end up at about 4 to 6 metres and clear some of the trees shrubs out of line of sight and things will improve. I know you like too do most things on the cheap, but i would like to see that battery in a housing off the ground. Metal box with a roof on it to keep the snow and rain out for the long term. Just a thought Morten.......................................

[@MyPlayHouse]

I have put the WiFi bridge on my House,, 3 meters up-ish. This thing can do 300Mbps,, and I am only using like 40Mbps,, the signal is plenty strong for that.

[@scottyb069]

So glad you got it all up and running mate, I was starting to think I had given you nothing but headaches after sending the dish. Glad to see it doing something useful keeping your channel in the air.

[@MyPlayHouse]

No This is great!! and a lot of fun to play with,, and the audiences clearly also enjoy watching, and comming with sugestions to improve it :-) So Thank You again for this lovely Toy/tool. :-)

[@jovanjanevski3747]

Check the LTE band configuration on the MikroTik, some bands may work better than other. Also use widest channels for the wifi.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Thank You,, it kind of works good now.

[@philsbbs]

finally got my wifi going from mine to my sister about half a mile away.. im lucky as live in a flat so have a nice height range.

[@MyPlayHouse]

That is a cool project!

[@CRSolarice]

1:44 You will definitely get better performance if you cut the vegetation out of the line of sight. The water in the vegetation is terrible for WiFi connections. As it gets more dense you will see unexplained dropouts and slow signal (error retries). Just that small spot at the top of the hill which is blocking, even if it doesn't seem like much, you'll really notice slowness and long dropouts when the wind blows the plants back and forth through the signal path. Its probably working very well as is but it will work better if you get rid of that little bit of veg (it will eventually block the signal completely, probably surprisingly soon actually). That is really awesome techieness, I have to admit that I may be slightly envious.

[@MyPlayHouse]

I think you would be right, if I was at the maximum speeds that the WIFI bridge can do. (300Mbps I think) but as the internet is more like 40Mbps,, I think it is fine,, Even with a bit of Green Wifi :-)

[@CarlosJOlivQ]

Will be fine, I have seen worst without LOS for 5 km for spectrum of 5 GHz. At worst will get 90Mbps if the trees get wet and obstruct the LOS. Not a good a practice because attenuation, freznel zone and all of that, but will be fine. I would totally change the cable from charger to the battery for a thicker one to ensure in case of short the internal fuse does propperly blow, the antenna been unattended should have the best protection available considering the vegetation.

[@davidanderson2436]

Probably going to need better weather proofing if its gonna be up there for very long. Another panel on the other side make a nice little roof for your other side! Thanks for the video !

[@MyPlayHouse]

There is room for improvement,, and we will do that along the way,,, I am still struggling to find stuff,,,locally.

[@boommonkey111]

looking forward to you perhaps having some cameras in Portugal and remoting in from Denmark... perhaps a camera that can rotate on the mountain!?! :) I use EZViz camera's

[@MyPlayHouse]

Yes,, That would be cool :-)

[@mustaprox]

It’s nice to see it work. I guess there’s room for improvement if you align the antennas better. Perhaps a speedtest up the mountain could either confirm or deny this.

[@MyPlayHouse]

I got just about the same speed at the house,, as I got on top of the mountain, in a previous video.

[@csparty11]

@@MyPlayHouse Yes you tested this at the mountain in a hurry but the dish was not aimed properly, also you should be able to get more than 15 dB SNR.. But it might also be a cap from the provider or the overbooking at the tower itself. Anyways 30 Mbit is not much, you should consider testing a couple of things: -Test the maximum speed at night, see if you are getting higher speeds, over 100 Mbit should be attainable if there is no cap. -Go up the hill and test with the 4G dongle you used in the house in your window and ofcourse a laptop and test the speed also check the signal strengh. If you see that is higher or gives you a better speed, you know your dish is aimed poorly. -Also test the speeds directly from the dish again, there might alot of improvement possible. remember a dish has a small opening angle and needs to be pointed much more accurately than a simple flat antenna. And last but not least test the maximum speed your wifi link can do. I would mount the wifi antenna on a pole attached to the wall of the house just above the roof. And like everybody else already said try to cut the vegatation because if are away for 3 months, things can grow fast. BTW, you got all these security camera. i'm asuming you want to keep an eye from danmark, then you would need permanent internet access.

[@voltare2amstereo]

if you can, set an auto reboot for each device overnight - can help with slowness and lockup - those wifi bridges look like re-housed tp-link CPE devices

[@MyPlayHouse]

I think those wifi bridges, are made in bulk,, and different labels slapped on :-) They was cheap,, but it at the moment doing well.

[@0525ohhwell]

What would be interesting is if you had a second laptop to leave up on the hill running LANbench to test the bandwidth of the wireless bridge itself from down at the house.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Yes,, have actually been talking with a friend about doing exactly that. So I can find out how fast the WiFi bridge is running.

[@0525ohhwell]

@@MyPlayHouse Cool! It would certainly be interesting to see how much headroom you have for any future cell data upgrades.

[@Darkk6969]

Cool setup! I'm a big MikroTik fan myself and have few of their switches for my home lab. I realize this is proof of concept and getting things tweaked as time goes on. It may help if the wifi antennas are bit higher to clear the vegetation so you wouldn't have to cut them down.

[@MyPlayHouse]

I might do a bit of utting..

[@irsalnotical]

i think you can get more speed by locking the lte band to Band 3 (1800Mhz) or Band 1(2100Mhz) instead of using band 20 (800Mhz)

[@MyPlayHouse]

I do want to try all the bands,, but it takes forever to test them all,, one by one,, and the speedtest is all over the places. But Yes I would like to try that.

[@Popeyes66]

Another great video from our Scandinavian friend.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Fast Car Fast Door Knocker Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@philsbbs]

would it make sene to cover the intenet stuff up with say a tarpaline to help protect it from the rain and the cables from the sun (just when your not there)

[@MyPlayHouse]

It is outdoor equipment,,, I hope it is fine.

[@jamess1787]

Morten, Get a small mikrotik router for in your portugese house, and you can do a speedtest from your Mikrotik LTE Router and your home over the wireless bridge. Those aliexpress wireless bridges are pretty terrible, tell you fast speed but actual theoughput is junk (packet-loss, etc). Even a $20 mikrotik RB will easily do 150-200Mbps on a wimpy MIPS processor

[@MyPlayHouse]

You are missing the point, that I did test this on top of the mountain in the last video : kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoLEeWBppMmYbK8 and it does not look like I am losing anything in the terrible junk aliexpress wireless bridges. They seem to send the same speed to my house. :-)

[@jamess1787]

@@MyPlayHouse I saw a video you did at the top of the mountain, but that was before you repointed the dish 🤔. Thanks for the video!

[@darrenraymond5334]

good download and upload speeds 😁

[@MyPlayHouse]

It is way better than the Internet in a glass :-)

[@lpseem3770]

Maybe the rain will not be a problem for that cable, it only has to be a little longer to have a droop loop. Sunlight will probably shred insulation to pieces over time. I suggest outdoor rating cables for a hilltop instalation.

[@MyPlayHouse]

I hope the cable will last a few months,, and I think it will.

[@JohnnieHougaardNielsen]

Did you also try a mountaintop speedtest, to check if the Wifi link is a bottleneck? Anyway, the speeds you showed are similar to what I had on 4G in very rural Denmark, before local fiber rollout.

[@MyPlayHouse]

I tested that in the previous video on this,,, and it was about the same.

[@gjheydon]

This looks really cool. One thing that you should do to give better accessibility, is to add a ESPHome to monitor the Usage and the battery levels. If you then link this to Home assistant you can then get some pretty graphs which you can look at on a dashboard at your house.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Gordon Heydon Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@sdjoensson]

I am always curious and like to test every link of a connection. What I'd like to see is, 1) Do you get the same speed if you connect your computer directly to the 4G router. ? 2) Do you have the same speed on the same simcard if you put it in your mobile phone.? But cool setup nevertheless :)

[@MyPlayHouse]

Good sugestions.. I did try with the PC on the 4G router in the previous video,, about the same. But I did not compare with the phone,, or swap SIM cards,, good sugestion!

[@shephusted2714]

cut down the brush on mountain to get clear line of sight

[@MyPlayHouse]

In my last video : kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoLEeWBppMmYbK8 I tested the speed from the top of the mountain,, that was about the same. Thank You..

[@VAX1970]

Why not run outdoor CAT5 all the way up to the dish and use a POE injector? 100 Metre length limit?

[@MyPlayHouse]

Yes,, there is about 230 meter up there. 🤔

[@JustinvEmst]

I like this project verry much ❤

[@MyPlayHouse]

Me to,, I like this idea,, I only need to get my wiring done in the house now.

[@ThomasPleasance]

Have you tried NOS mobile provider based on opensignal you might get faster speeds

[@MyPlayHouse]

No,, I would like to try them,, I need to get a sim card from them and test them out. :-) I be back to play with this in September.

[@EudesRJ]

Did you use outdoors Ethernet cables and connectors right? Usually they are black! UV after some time eats the plastics and when cables fail and you’ll check and see the individual wires swaying in the wind 🌬️ Outdoors Ethernet connectors usually have a screw connectors over the regular ones, to prevent water ingress. On the batteries, since your battery box isn’t sealed, put a plastic container or a jar 🫙 with silica gel inside to absorb humidity and from time to time check if it is full the replace it. Some anti corrosion spray (see on the car auto shop) on the battery contacts would also help.

[@MyPlayHouse]

No it is a normal cable,, good quality, but normal... I will look out for UV damage when I get to it next time... Good point! Thank You.

[@daiashthomas]

Did you manage to get it any faster by tweaking all the settings?

[@MyPlayHouse]

I did not get to that :-/ yet :-)

[@skynetcybersystem3tech]

👍👍 👍

[@MyPlayHouse]

Your thumbs up,, are few and far between.

[@GeertDroid]

Nice that it works Morten👍 Mabe I'm wrong but I think you probably will have a faster speed with your equipment on a 4G network. If I were you I would write a mail to Vodafone and ask what's the maximum 4G speed expected at the location around the cell tower where you aiming to. If you really want to test the wifi speed correctly you should use a SBC like RPi or other thas has a 1gb port with iperf3 on it to test the true speed. Love your IT video's my friend keep them coming. Good luck.

[@MyPlayHouse]

In my last video : kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoLEeWBppMmYbK8 I tested the speed from the top of the mountain,, that was about the same. Thank You..

[@TCM_OPS]

Miwire Roudem is the way to go :)

[@MyPlayHouse]

This worked nicely.

[@lansanasandibockarie6426]

Please 🙏. Can someone help me with this LGH product? Is not in my country for sale. I have the MikroTik board.

[@MyPlayHouse]

You have to get it online,,, amazon or ebay.. or maybe aliexpress..

[@Vynncent]

7:47 I don't think that power injector is rated to be in direct weather....

[@MyPlayHouse]

As you see later,, I agree..

[@RoyalEnfielderKtm]

The RJ45 and POE injector wrapped in plastic is not a good idea. The change in temp. will create condensation. You need a longer patch cable and have it in a box. If the box is open under and parts that need to be protected are entered from the under then you are good. And/or make some drip loops. Also, the ethernet cable exposed to the sun need to be outdoor rated. Or the sun will damage the cable and it will crack.

[@MyPlayHouse]

I do not believe there is any activ elektronic in it. and it is still going strong.

[@RoyalEnfielderKtm]

@@MyPlayHouse the connectors corrod and short. We had POE melt.

[@MyPlayHouse]

@@RoyalEnfielderKtm Well POE is usually 24V or 48v,, this is just injekting whatever voltaged (13,4v) in to power the router,, and it is not using a lot.

[@EEE-iw3fk]

Are you an internet service provider (isp) in the other house?

[@MyPlayHouse]

No I am not.

[@grumpywhale5]

Why not just get a starlink?

[@jamess1787]

Price and who cares, everyone else is doing that. Boring!

[@MyPlayHouse]

StarLink is $65 a month in Portugal,, If I lived there I would. But when I am only there every second month,, it is like €130 for 14 days of internet,, and that is €15 with 4G.

[@dfgaJK]

Intemet?

[@MyPlayHouse]

Where do you see that ?

[@dfgaJK]

@@MyPlayHouse in the thumbnail, it might actually just be the font selection combined with no letter spacing

[@dfgaJK]

On closer inspection of the large card view of the thumbnail it is r n but the outline is only around the word not around the letter so there is no black line between them.

[@MyPlayHouse]

@@dfgaJK Okay,, Yes there was not to much space... 🙂

[@A.rpapua]

Untuk harga berapa bapak LHG LTE kit

[@MyPlayHouse]

HI @aduhmm6679 My channel is English, and to make sure as many as possible, can also enjoy the comments, they are also English. Please keep to English. Thank you for watching! :-)

[@leonardotoschi585]

Internet to nowhere

[@MyPlayHouse]

When I am nowhere to be found,, I´ll be using it :-)

[@fili0927]

9:46 Safety is nummer one priority 🦯

[@MyPlayHouse]

There is quite a few little animals,, that, could be staying in this fancy new home that I build for them :-)