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Re: Rural Smart Hub and cell booster??
Cell boost will definitely boost signal bars. As for speed, there’s 50/50 chance it will work. There are some factors that can affect speed since the smarthub is wireless device (LTE tower congestion, wifi interference, wifi congestion, wifi signal etc). Also not sure if it matters to you, cell boost adds extra hop (adds latency).5.4KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Smart Hub is limited wifi.
The zte mf279t smarthub is a duel band wifi router. So it has 2.4GHz wifi band and 5GHz wifi band. Either band can handle 10 wifi devices. So the 2.4GHz wifi band has 10 wifi devices and the 5GHz wifi band has 10 wifi devices. So the hub can handle 20 wifi devices at any given time.18KViews1like3CommentsRe: LTE Hub
It is possible they are on a different plan than you. Telus offers rural Internet plans which the speed is capped at 25 Mbps download and upload, and non rural plans which has no cap on the speed as far as I’m aware of. Another factor is signal quality from cell tower and/or wifi congestion! Anything wireless is bound to have hiccups and interference of some sort. I have the huawei hub and haven’t had any complaints and I have friends that have the zte hub and I gotta say they are both at par with each other when it comes to performance, the only real difference is the battery backup on the zte hub.6.2KViews1like0CommentsRe: External antenna for Smart Hub Huawei B612
An outdoor antenna would be your best bet for optimal signal. But if you don’t want to go through trouble of running wires to the outside, then rabbit ear antennas or a indoor antenna that would go up on the wall or the window would be second best thing. I personally have and prefer a outdoor antenna. Just be sure to ground the outdoor antenna if you live in a high risk lightning area!3.7KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Smart Hub is limited wifi.
Also another thing you could possibly do is, if you have another wireless router that has bridge mode. You could put the other wireless router into bridge mode and use that as your wireless access point and turn off wifi on your smart hub. It is possible you can get more wifi users on that way! Because it would be going through Ethernet port rather than wifi on the smart hub.19KViews0likes0Comments