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[@sdgelectronics]

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[@JoshuaBrown-ud5ui]

Say hello to the future of home networking. Zyxel and Mediatek are dropping the ultimate router beast with the newest one having T830 and Filogic 680 chipsets. Blazing-fast speeds, seamless connections, and AI smarts to manage it all.

[@spazmochad]

The ZTE modems are pretty fantastic when you find a good spot for them and lock them to a tower. Can add external antennas for added oomph. About £120 in cex

[@internetrural606]

Very bad stuff ZTE

[@JackFilmTube]

Glad to see you got 5g after all. Getting over 1000mbps down and 120mbps up with my local tower when I am within 100m of it. Drops to about 500-600 down at my house inside about 500m away. Three very recently improved the upload speed as it was around 20-40mbps for a while.

[@deviljelly3]

Keen to see the results on the chimney

[@charldpuk]

Did you ever mount it on your chimney? Interested in whether you saw a significant improvement from the already excellent speeds you were getting.

[@adriancarpenter4493]

Thanks for this, really happy to see you using pfsense and it having bridge mode! All my questions answered. I'm considering this as we a semi rural area with no firm date for FTTP, and have just discovered that my home office (in the gaden) has 5G, I can get ca. 200Mb in there if I hold my iPhone up high. Pricey but seems to tick lots of boxes.

[@IanScottJohnston]

Awesome to see those 5G data rates.....excellent backup to fibre. PS. FTTP getting installed here on Wednesday........FINALLY!!

[@sdgelectronics]

Is the FTTP through open reach?

[@IanScottJohnston]

@@sdgelectronics yep, they own the infrastructure and responsible for everything outside the house. My ISP is Talk Talk Business so they'll be here on Wed.

[@vidoma1]

Thank you for the thorough review.

[@michaelkopec.5814]

about time, just yesterday i was going to purchase mikrotik LHG LTE18 kit (its 4G LTE device) , as i did not know whether there are any 5G outdoor modems were available. your video helped me. are there any updated new hardware ? besides this one ? with something like carrier aggregation ? Thank you, great video, subbed, upvoted.

[@toolsanddrymaller]

I do not have 5G coverage. There is only 4G with 4 frequencies. What do you advise me? Microtik LTE 18 or Zyxel nr7101. and thanks for video ❤

[@sdgelectronics]

The Zyxel is a lot more reliable. I think they have some cheaper 4G versions though

[@marcuslejona]

Thx for a very informative video! -Would be nice to get a long term review, how has the speeds been holding up? any issues? any weather disturbances like snow/rain/fog?

[@floodbond]

Hi, Do you turn NAT of in the settings, as i have just bought one

[@JxH]

As a Canadian, I'm wincing at the concept of automatic fall-over from the normal fiber optic ISP to a 'mobile' 5G carrier. Imagine a fault develops in the fiber, and the first clue is the 'mobile' data phone bill which (in Canada) could be greater than the GDP of Switzerland. They don't make paper that wide. We've had 5G mobile plans that would go into Data Overage is mere seconds at 5G speeds, and could cost $10,000 per minute thereafter. Sigh, Canada, home of the world's worst mobile data providers.

[@sdgelectronics]

Luckily we have very cheap providers here. My plan is £16 per month with unlimited data, so no massive costs to worry about!

[@IanScottJohnston]

@@sdgelectronics Careful Steve, you'll drive JH to an early grave. Seriously though.....wondering if I shouldnt implement the same.....is it just your ISP/infrastructure thats unreliable in your area or......?

[@sdgelectronics]

@@IanScottJohnston it was just because it was completely new infrastructure, but Vodafone are useless. I'll be switching to a new ISP as soon as its open to other vendors. It's been fine recently, but I expect downtime when switching ISP since they will change the ONT

[@supernumex]

Interested to hear your thoughts on lightning protection when mounting on your chimney.

[@hurtfulcomment511]

Nice and informative video, but you really need to clean the gutters on your roof.

[@sdgelectronics]

It's a Floplast gutter brush, it stops them filling up with junk

[@siedliko]

That's how they keep houses warm in UK.

[@hopkinsjonathanuk]

Great video, thanks for sharing. How are you getting on 6 months later? Still getting decent speeds? Did you move it to the chimney? Have you seen any other comparable/better outdoor/5G routers I should be looking at? I’m in the market right now . . .

[@tuttocrafting]

Is that a 100mbps link on the ETH? for a 5G connection? Isnt that a bit low? I was wondering how the SPD worrks for eth devices. and I can count only 4 pairs and 5 spark gaps packages... Is ther anything else in the bottom? PS I'm designing my own outdoor cpe for next summer using scrap parts I have laying around :D

[@sdgelectronics]

No it's 1000 Mbps Ethernet on the unit. There's another 4 devices on the bottom side from each conductor to chassis GND.

[@tuttocrafting]

@@sdgelectronicsgot it, I'm in fact thinking what to do with my design for lightning protection. This is the first time I've seen that they are directly protecting the single wires. I've seen that someone protect the center tap of the transformer.

[@user-jk4rt7zg3o]

I currently have a NR5103E, which is alright, but it has issues with dropping down to 4G (from 5G), and no cell tower locking. Would you suggest this as a good alternative, or perhaps some other router? Also it seems the NR7101 doesn't support Three/Vodafone B32, which is a shame, no?

[@alixxworkshop846]

Nice video sir, Does It have like Huawei signal meter,so that you know in which direction to turn antenna if you directly don't see the bloody LTE antenna from the operator?

[@big_bad_lynx]

do you know if I can manually pick the mast I can connect too from an available list (iof there is one)? I live on a border of 5g signal an I need a router which I can choose which ,ast I'm getting signal from as it always pick 4g mast not the 5g. if not do you know of any which can do such stuff? thanks in advance

[@Max-hm1bf]

Nice video, I picked up a Smarty sim with the Netgear MR5200, its awful and costs almost the same as your Zyxel... I get full 5g signal on my phone with 7-800 mbps and the MR5200 get 4g with 20 down and 2 up haha

[@sdgelectronics]

That's the kind of disappointing result I was worried about and what I saw with the Mikrotik before fiddling with the settings.

[@Max-hm1bf]

@@sdgelectronics Its really strange... I did use DC unlocker to change the bands and it does get 5g, but its so inconsistent and slow. It will go from full signal 5g to nothing and max speed of 200 down :(

[@Fiss107]

I have already three of devices same but one of my devices every time that is date down 500 Mbs to 90 or 60 So what is the solution I already update the device

[@LehalSuni1984]

Did you put the Zyxel into bridge mode and the connect to your own router

[@guyp3599]

Hi there. Great video. I have a question (as you seem to be pretty clued up!) I have purchased a ZTE MC7010 to use through the THREE network. The firmware is H3G_GB_MC7010DV1.0.0BG09 - apparently the latest. When I plug my sim card into the 7010, it connects to 5g and I get 250Mbps (directly out of the ethernet cable into my laptop) BUT, when I insert the same SIM card into my Samsung Galaxy A73 5g and place it in the exact same position, I’m getting more than DOUBLE the speed. (I have line of sight of the mast) Any idea why this is?

[@wojtekernest7040]

Phone is better carrier agregation .

[@BjornV78]

What type of hardware do you use for your Pfsense firewall ? Since a few months i have here a 1Gbps / 30Mbps connection, and connected straight to my cablemodem, i get arround 950Mbps, but with the Pfsense firewall in between, speedtest maxed out arround 820Mbps.

[@sdgelectronics]

I'll do a video shortly, I've just bought some new hardware to replace it

[@BjornV78]

@@sdgelectronics , nice thx for the quick reply. It seems that i didn't get a notification of your reply. Grtz

[@irfankhalifa5647]

What data SIM plan do you have...? Last I looked at this data was too expensive

[@sdgelectronics]

It's a Smarty SIM. Link in the pinned post - it's an unlimited data plan for £16 on a monthly rolling contract

[@pileofstuff]

@@sdgelectronicsThat's amazing. I wish we could get that kind of pricing in my country.

[@BaSyo89z]

Can you kindly elaborate how do you power it? Do you have to connect it to a router that supports POE output or just a plain POE switch?

[@sdgelectronics]

You can use a PoE switch, injector or a gateway with PoE

[@benjaminlee3669]

Does this use those Mediatek chipsets that bring AI features? Read about Zyxel and Mediatek collaborating on it.

[@vincei4252]

When your mobile internet is way better (order of magnitude) than my wired connection here in Connecticut :(

[@Okurka.]

And way cheaper.

[@medienmond]

Hey, i am in need of such a device with panel antenna for use as a WiFi repeater/ap. 4G/5G would be nice, but fast dual band WiFi is more important for me. It should run a small Linux or has a powerful webui. Do you have such a device in your spare-parts-bin which you could Imagine to give away to me. I will care very well for that device and give it a nice future in my private network. Please think about helping me out with such a device.

[@GRIFF22]

Just purchased this and will put it into IP Passthrough with an orbi system. My orbi has the same IP address, will this cause any issues? How would I view the Zyxel admin page if they're both the same?

[@sdgelectronics]

I would recommend changing the Zyxel admin page IP address. This is different to the ISP provided IP, and can be set as a standard internal IP such as 192.168.1.X

[@GRIFF22]

@@sdgelectronics that's a big help, thank you.

[@lplp6961]

Its a CAT20 but performs barelly better than CAT6. 4G speeds of 20mbps, when i get 40 mbps on a regular 5g phone... disapointing for this price range.

[@sdgelectronics]

Speeds are significantly higher here than 40 Mbps

[@SimonCoates]

Interesting unit, impressive bandwidth. Shame the ping is so high, too high for gaming. I was quoted £45,000 by BT for installing Gigabit fibre to premises last year!!! Idiots.

[@sdgelectronics]

Yeah it's not too bad during the day, but at peak times the ping would ruin any gaming experience.

[@TheEmbeddedHobbyist]

Your lucky to get 4G, i get 1bar on my phone at the best of times at home. How i've got FTTP i'm quite happy even when my one month of high speed fell back to 150Mb i did not notice any drop in speed. Only problem laptop keeps dropping back to 2.4Ghz giving 34MB/s down 32MB/s up from 147MB/s down and 34MB/s up with 5GHz wifi. wifi is set to connect at 5GHz on laptop but does seem to like 2.4 😞

[@sdgelectronics]

There's sometimes some power saving settings which cause laptops to fall back to 2.4 GHz. I've just bought a bunch of new WiFi 6 APs and a controller, so I'm hoping to improve the WiFi around here too.

[@daiashthomas]

Are you still using this Zyxel unit? How has it been performing over time?

[@sdgelectronics]

Works brilliantly. Moved it up for direct line of sight and the speeds are excellent. Pretty much always better than 400/100.

[@arturlorek7977]

Interesting.... In my case it has been fine for a little over 2 months and 1 night stopped passing traffic on 5g-nsa or auto preferred connection. Negotiates connection in N78 band for the main serving 5g band but no actual trafić going through. When set to 4G LTE for preferred connection type a is fine.... Negotiated connection is excellent and signal strength as well as SINR is great but 5g is dead. Various masts, 3sims later, different APNs.... Nope, 4g only. 5g was fine just for a short time. Many people on Three network have this problem with the indoor version model nr5103....

[@sdgelectronics]

@@arturlorek7977 have you tried the latest firmware? There's a new firmware for the radio and also the application

[@arturlorek7977]

@@sdgelectronics it was running on the latest firmware since day 1 (abuv8. C0 or sth like that). I have not tried the latest module firmware though as many people reported it made the things even worse and the speeds fall drastically with it. I read that Zyxel took this device off market in Germany at some point as it wasn't working properly with one operator. They fixed it later with newer firmware though, but this may indicate incompatibility with some operators in different countries with how the ISP provides the service. Can't say how Three in the UK provides the service in different parts of the country, whether it varies based on different infrastructure elements in particular locations or is the same everywhere, but sth is not entirely compatible with this device and Three resulting in problems in my case as well as many others (with the indoor version nr5103). Honestly I am out of ideas how to solve this

[@mr.afrikaans1747]

Did you move the receiver? If so, any change in speed?

[@sdgelectronics]

I tested it on a pole at 18m elevation DLOS, but no difference in speed so I've returned it to where I have easy reach.

[@sdgelectronics]

After a firmware update, the speeds are even better. I tested it back up on the mast and it works far better in all weather conditions.

[@jhoc2x2]

can I buy your old modem?

[@Mr.Leeroy]

10.20.x.x is RFC1918 8:47 what am I missing?

[@sdgelectronics]

Most mobile providers give out private IP addresses and have some form of NAT at their end

[@Mr.Leeroy]

@@sdgelectronics true, and their one is exactly the first layer of double NAT. You may avoid it only by having public IP and ISP device that supports bridge mode for downstream interface.

[@lplp6961]

Usual fault of mikrotik,does not achieve CA properly, its a fake lte6...

[@roa4031]

5g modem is so expensive....

[@SparkyMTB]

I hate you.. I’m so jealous… on a good day my 4G LTE home router gets around 20 or less mbps & 5G won’t be anywhere near me anytime soon…

[@Throckmorton.Scribblemonger]

5G death rays.