This look about right?

[backndawoods]

Is this correct or should I have the bottom pair pointing down?

[gscheb]

They should all point the same direction. If that is what you are asking? Not one pair pointed towards the ground. If you feel you are not getting the best performance from it could try adding more distance between the two pairs of antennas.

[backndawoods]

I'm sorry I meant the little arrows on the antenna pointing down.

Something like this

\__|__/
|
/----\

Basically like an X

[backndawoods]

Bah. My little artwork got butchered lol

[Dr-BroadBand]

How long are your cables?
What type of cable?
What is your Signal strength?

[backndawoods]

Um the cables that came with em are 30 foot, dont know the type, they're connected to a grounding block, then it goes to 10 foot RG6 to the router.

Getting around -106 to -110 strength. Shows 2 bars on the router.

Keeps steady at 30 35 mbps, but will jump to 45 50 at night. The tower is beside I 85. A few miles away behind heavy pine woods, as the crow flies.

[Dr-BroadBand]

Would be better off with LM400 cable.
https://thewirelesshaven.com/shop/cable ... -usa-made/

But you have good speed so maybe good enough. But there is room for improvement with your signal strength

If you share your Single Quality and Signal/Noise ratio numbers we (The Group) could give better advice

[backndawoods]

Ok I'll post them later tonight or tomorrow, drinkin beer and frying turkeys at the moment

[backndawoods]

The system numbers

[Dr-BroadBand]

The system numbers

You have an awesome modem!!
But your signal needs a little work.

For a test would put your modem in the tree with your antenna with very short cables to see if you have signal loss in your cabling.

Per the manual
Minimize RF cable losses to the antenna; the recommended maximum cable loss for antenna
cabling is 0.5 dB.

[Didneywhorl]

Def need netter signal strength and quality

[gscheb]

Do you have trees like that in front of the antennas too? Close trees to antennas can be an issue.

[backndawoods]

Oh yea, theres trees all over. My only option I guess is goin a tower, but I'm not going that route. Starlink says mid 22 for my area so If things stay like they are I can just hold out till then. I'm able to game and stream without buffering so it's all good. I do have an older signal booster I may put in line on primary 1 too see if it does anything, but other than that I'm done.

[gscheb]

Trees close to the antenna are the worse. If there is a good distance between antenna and trees usually fine. Sometimes just eliminating a tree or two that are close makes a huge difference. Just sharing info. Glad that it is working for you as is.

[albert90]

Trees close to the antenna are the worse. If there is a good distance between antenna and trees usually fine. Sometimes just eliminating a tree or two that are close makes a huge difference. Just sharing info. Glad that it is working for you as is.

Seriously though, it makes a lot of difference. Was running into similar issues in the past turned out it was the trees! who could've thought?