Thanks for the response. Let me fill you in on what ive done since that post. ALOT of Research! It never occured to me that a double pane window could reduce signal sooooo much. I have a 2 story house and in one of the attics there is a window that is at the very top of the house. I figured this one would be a good spot to do my testing get everything configured and then move it outside to its final resting place.
With that said, I did research on how much loss you can get from a window(especially double pane, and even more so ones with gas between them. Just incase someone else reads this you can loose up to 13dbi from a double pane window.
So this morning I decided to open the window facing B41 and lock it to that band to test. Low and behold:
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HAN?
!UMTSCHAN: NOT IMPLEMENTED
OK
AT!GSTATUS?
!GSTATUS:
Current Time: 705 Temperature: 49
Reset Counter: 1 Mode: ONLINE
System mode: LTE PS state: Attached
LTE band: B41 LTE bw: 20 MHz
LTE Rx chan: 40978 LTE Tx chan: 40978
LTE CA state: INACTIVE LTE Scell band:B41
LTE Scell bw:20 MHz LTE Scell chan:41374
EMM state: Registered Normal Service
RRC state: RRC Connected
IMS reg state: No Srv
PCC RxM RSSI: -88 RSRP (dBm): -119
PCC RxD RSSI: -87 RSRP (dBm): -126
SCC RxM RSSI: -99 RSRP (dBm): -121
SCC RxD RSSI: -100 RSRP (dBm): -126
Tx Power: 0 TAC: 280B (10251)
RSRQ (dB): -10.4 Cell ID: 05151833 (85268531)
SINR (dB): 3.8
OK
AT!PCTEMP?
Temp state: Normal
Temperature: 49.00 C
OK
Speed test shows 10mbps down.
This was just me point it in the general direction and trying. I havent fined tunned it or anything. Ive also learned that the extra RSSI values is when your acheiveing Carrier Aggregation.
Now to my current question, With B25 and the window down I was getting 10mbps down and around 4-5mbps up.
Would I be better off opening the window pointing towards the B25 Tower? As it seems if I was getting 10mbps down with the window up I should in theory get much more with it up. or Should I fine tune the B41 and see what speeds I can get from it.
A Concern of mine has been that I bought 50ft of Altelix N Male to N Male 400 Series Coaxial Cable Assembly 50 Feet for each antenna. Now knowing the loss that occurs over that 50ft and the pigtails. Should I try to get shorter lengths of actual LMR400? Mount my router as close to the antennas so that I dont loose as much signal? Even then 50ft was overkill and im gonna have to order new cable anyways so I figured I might as well get actual LMR400 with NMale to rp-sma to remove any loss obtained using a pigtail.
Once I have this all figured out, Im going to be mounting the antennas outside on the roof of my house so I have 2 options. Waterproof the router combo(we826 with MC7455) so that I can mount it to the pole the antennas are on. Making the cable length very short. Or should I install the router combo in the attic near the locations of the antenna with around 15ft of LMR400. I know LMR200 should suffice for that distance but I want to make this the best it can possibly be.
An lastly what is a good mounting system for these antennas, like which pole did you use and the best system to be able and adjust its azimuth while still mounted would be great. Looking at some RF Topographic maps I generate from my house to the antenna shows a 1 degree to be best. As stated I want the best setup possible. Cost does not matter, as I work from home quite often for the Department of Defense doing computer programming.(We basically make a video game that trains cybersecurity people how to defend against different attacks and also offensive missions, you can learn more about it at www.projectares.com were currently not available for the public but that will changing soon as we are in the works of moving everything from vmware to Azure Cloud and offering subscriptions. Its pretty awesome training platform/video game. So if your interested in CyberSecurity I highly recommend checking it out! Also if you would like more information let me know an I will be glad to show you more.) Back to the matter at hand, im connecting to Virtual Machines daily and also we stream our tv 100%. So I need to the best I can get.
So to recap, right now my we826 with mc7455 has r00ter firmware on it and its just setting on the floor with 2 pigtails that connect to the NMale Cable, then runs to my two 15dbi Directional wideband antennas purchased it from The Wireless Haven. Configured in MIMO with a heavy duty curtain rod and this is setting at my window with the antennas pointed towards B41.
So if you were doing this setup, what changes would you make to the current system. Which Cables? Best roof mounting hardware that allows me to adjust it and installing the router/modem outside closer to the antennas or use 15ft of cable to run to the cables inside. Until I get all the equipment, should I move the antennas back to the B25 and open that window. As I was getting 10mbps before with the window. Im thinking until I get my setup to mount outside, so move it over there, open the window and would prob get close to the max throughput that B25 can provide. Opinions?
Thanks for all the help, without this place none of this would have been possible!