Arcadyan KVD21 Gateway vs. Nokia

Stop looking at bars, especially between these two gateways as the arcadyan actually inflates bars.

For example. a -99RSRP is 3 bars on nokia and 4 bars on arcadyan. Same exact signal strength.

Look at RSRQ, SNR/SINR the most.

My analysis of gateways so far, nokia seems to be more reliable for speed but less reliable on connection stability compared to arcadyan. The arcadyan seems to prioritize RSRQ over RSRP and SINR. This improves connection stability but lowers speeds.

For example using same antenna and exact location and swapping between gateways the state difference between the two is this

What do these numbers tell me and actual results. The upload and download were both lower on arcadyan but the ability to prevent connection loss is much better. Although since my metrics were so good, I would have been better with nokia cause I rarely had connection loss. Now if your SNR/SINR is in toilet, you want the arcadyan cause it'll disconnect less, or at the very least reconnect faster.

But again, I cannot emphasize enough the bars just don't matter, like at all. On nokia I would pull 250-300Mbit download and 30-50Mbit upload (and this is on n71, not ultra capacity n41). on arcadyan it's now 150-200Mbit down and 15-30Mbit upload. It's a sizable speed loss and the main cause is the tanked SINR/SNR on n71 5g band. My guess is this was a direct response of tmobile tweaking software on newer modems due to all the people who don't have good stats like mine having connection quality issues. 

So TL/DR. If you have great metrics, mainly SNR/SINR, use nokia, if you don’t, use arcadyan. my 2 cents.