HI there,
My GL-X3000 arrived today and so far it’s pretty good! I did some tests while working on my laptop in the car today and my Google Pixel 6 Pro had 11Mbps of download with Google Fi and GL-X3000 had 35Mbps. Previously I had GL-X750 and its speed usually was worse than my phone.
So for GL-X750 I had two external antennas on my car https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KY4Q7DG - Would these antennas work well for 5G and GL-X3000? I could get two additional antennas potentially.
Hi,I checked that this antenna can only boost cellular frequencies of 700-900Mhz and 1900Mhz. The 5G NR sub-6Ghz frequencies are 450-6000Mhz, For 5G to work well, these antennas should support all cellular frequencies of sub-6Ghz.
One thing I’ve noticed is sometimes T-Mo won’t connect on the first try; I’m not sure if it’s 'cause my SIM isn’t provisioned for 5G, or some other issue.
I added a DC-DC regulator for good measure and connected to my car’s 12V circuit. Now I need a new DC plug for the GL-X3000? Does anybody know what plug that is? Is it 5.5mm x 3.5mm?
I’m wondering how you use this Magnet Mount Antennas on your car, where to put it? Could you take one picture to show your usage? We may find a suitable antenna for this use case. Thanks.
Have you found that to be necessary on the Spitz? I’m on the $20 “Unlimited” Tablet Plan and w/o messing around with the TTL when going Hotspot (which NATs) → GL-iNet device I won’t get more than ~256Kbit/sec, but the tricks don’t seem to be necessary now.
Also, is your plan provisioned for 5G? I don’t know exactly how it works with T-Mo, but I’d tried to put this same SIM into one of their 5G Hotspots and it wouldn’t even connect to their network; I don’t know if that’s a “device-side” or “carrier-side” limitation, but as you’re getting ~500MBit/sec, maybe it doesn’t matter in your own device?
I can send a picture later but I just placed them on the roof of my SUV and ran the cables through the trunk door, under the seal. My thinking is (which could be wrong) is that the higher the antenna the easier it is to get line of sight to a tower. Especially in places like Colorado. I was actually able to get internet on my previous X750 Spitz and with these antennas in places where my phone was showing no signal.
Without modification my line throttles to 600kbps after 10gb of hotspot.
T-Mobile is fairly chill about device IMEI so you don’t HAVE to change that for this plan to work but I do anyway just to be safe.
I used to keep a FW rule in place as well to set the TTL as well to 64, but based on my checking with T-Mo, the usage so far seems to all be “On-network data” and full-speed.
Also, I see the “5G” Indicator on my Spitz (for both AT&T and T-Mo) so I’m inclined to believe I’m in fact getting “5G” (vs. “LTE+”). What’s nice is my AT&T plan is a now-discontinued 100GB/$55 plan that (I think) predates their wide 5G rollout.
I’d love to know more about this as well. We have a trip coming up next weekend; I’ll be doing the test run with the supplied antennas but given that we tend towards boondocking in remote-ish areas, an external antenna may be the next step for us.
