Tråd: 4G, Home Compensor and max distance
Living out in the woods is nice and quiet, but it does leave your broadband speeds to be desired. Can't get anything over 2Mbit ADSL, so I figured I'd not even bother with that.
With some fiddling around with antenna directions, transmitter locations and an amplifier (home compensor) I now have a fairly decent connection fluctuating between 2.5 and 3.2 Mbit. This is with telenor however, which means that in prime time the speeds tends to head rock bottom due to oversubscription. Still, they're the only ones with decent data limits.
Here's the current situation with 3G: http://g.co/maps/dgbcz
And in comes the 800Mhz 4G network. They will still never cover this area here, so I have to continue running with amplifier and external antenna. All that equipment is not cheap, I'd hate to buy it again for a different 4G frequency.
The home compensor is suitable for 800Mhz EDGE though. Does this mean that it would work for 4G as well? Does an amplifier even care about protocols? All it does is amplify a specific frequency band as far as I'm aware.
A bit further away they've now started with 4G:
So we have 800 Mhz instead of 2100 Mhz, which should result in a longer reach. We've got a 800Mhz amplifier (build for EDGE but should work on 4G?). I'd need to get a different antenna, tuned for 800Mhz instead of UMTS. And a new contract with new 4G modem.
Could I cover 16km this way?