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how to improve signal and speed on home internet¿
I'm only getting about 25 to 45 Mbps down and similar up. I keep seeing people get in the 200s down! How can I get those kind of speeds? I'm not very far from a tower and I've tried the Nokia Gateway...
Yeah... need to dial in better numbers for the 4g side. That is going to dramatically limit the symbol rate it allows. Those 5g numbers on a straight 4g line would easily get you symbol rates that could break 100 by 30 provided there wasn't a lot of congestion.
You may want to try some tests to some other destinations too to get a better idea of how things look. The screwy CGNAT/XLAT464 tunneling they do (sort of like a VPN) can really screw up geolocstion and routing stuff. The "closest" location that those tests tend to select can be pretty bad... Laden with congestion.
Mine will pick spots in NC/GA (I am in SC), and often may come in around 60/15... but I can test 80/20 or better to Seattle (CenturyLink) or somewhere off the wall like Montréal or Toronto.
In other words, sometimes it isn't the wireless bogging you down, but the congestion, be that localized traffic or the routing/peering further upstream
