A possible solution to speed issues (N71 vs N41)

If you have actual clear line of sight the n71 performs pretty well at that distance. We have the tower 5.3 miles due north on a ridge, and we are on a ridge with full view of the tower base to cells. With the n71 we were getting a pretty clean stable signal and solid downloads and uploads. Recently T-Mobile made the n41 signal available here and the gateway flipped to n41. The signal strength is reported as less than the n71 but the signal quality is better and noise is less. The speeds pretty much doubled both up and down with the n41 and B2 or B66. Still the downloads are pretty impressive ~300 and latency and jitter is low and no packet loss on testing. The metrics fluctuate from time to time but so far the n41 has been stable like the n71. I am a bit surprised as I was a bit apprehensive when it flipped to n41 as the conversations in the community seem to reflect the service starting out great only to degrade and become unstable. So far with n41 service on the 5G it has been stable since mid September. 

If you can get a good stable signal from the n41 and it is done right it works well. If not then getting on a stable n71 with good metrics can be pretty good too. As long as the source is not overloaded and experiencing congestion and throttling it is a good solution.