 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here in the usual location Last summer I made a series of videos about the somewhat creative approach I took to solving my home internet connectivity problems. What I did specifically was I took my existing internet connection which was a DSL router and I added a cellular router, a 4G cellular router from TP-Link Then next thing this is a synopsis of all these videos. I added a load balancer also from TP-Link in the middle of those two devices and then I wired out my internet from there. I now have a Access point delivering Wi-Fi and an Ethernet switch delivering wired internet So to my surprise that video, one of those videos about the load balancer TP-Link ER605 has actually proven to be the most viewed video on this entire YouTube channel at the time I'm recording this video. There's 21,000 views and it's probably gonna go up So I was really surprised and I guess the answer is that more people than I realized have a need for What was technically called multi-wan internet connectivity. In other words, you're not just relying on one ISP You're relying on two or more forms of external connectivity Just like I'm doing with my ISP Going into load balancer and the cellular in case the ISP drops it kicks in on the cellular and for the most part It works wonderfully. It's been set up now for a year. I periodically check the TXRX transmission Received log just to make sure that the cellular is actually being used and it is but you know Just to about one or two percent of the total at airtime. So Basically the internet is working fine now one upgrade I've been planning for a while and this is what this video is about is upgrading the antenna on the cellular router So the 4g right now I'm actually just gonna overlay a few graphics on this video because I've just installed a new antenna and everything is nicely connected. So I'm not gonna touch Touch what's working. The cellular router I have from TP link is called the TP TP link TRMR 100 it is a 4g router if you can afford a 5g cellular router for this same purpose Go ahead and buy a 5g router Just make sure that you're buying a 5g data plan or otherwise you're gonna be paying More money for the same as you'll get on 4g So I picked up a TP link TPTLMR 100 cellular router and What you want to do if you want to get an external antenna now the reason I Would recommend doing this is because what you're going to get with the cellular router is a couple of very small antennas And they'll do a decent job. They'll pick up 4g but think about who's buying these cellular routers It's gonna be actually believe it or not a lot of buses Yes, you heard that right for things like buses, right? If you're if you've ever been traveling by bus and they have onboard Wi-Fi That's obviously not coming from a wired internet source because the bus is moving So what they would do in that situation is they have a cellular router sitting somewhere in the bus And that's what's actually providing your connectivity So that kind of an instance you want something that's going to physically sit on a shelf in the bus Let's say and be stable now if you're using a cellular router in a home environment You don't kind of have that constraint so it makes sense to use the best 4g antenna you can afford now all you need to do is Connect the antenna to the router. It doesn't matter the antenna can be located outdoors So if like me you're this is this box that I'm always showing my videos is my home office And it's not really an ideal place to pick up cellular connectivity just because it's small Where the riders are sitting in that little metal thing behind me. It's on the ground. It's not near the window So what I actually did was bought a 4g antenna now I don't want to make this video specifically about the TP link TL MR 100 because that's one of many Cellular riders on the market what you're going to need to do is look up the spec sheet or the technical sheet Or the user manual one of those that come with the hardware and it should specify what the Antenna connection is it's probably going to be SMA SMA, but there's a few other type of connectors The next thing you need to do if you're looking to buy an external antenna is decide whether you want an internal or an External antenna there are if you are lucky enough to own your home There are waterproof Antennas for 4g that are designed to literally be out in the elements and you're probably going to get superior connectivity Just because you don't have all that interference than what you'd get if you had something sitting within a couple of recessed walls Wherever you live and wherever the rider lives So that's basically all there is to it. You need to just to summarize this you need to firstly go ahead and see what the connector is Make sure that you know if you're selling a rider there might be ones in the market I'm sure that have the antennas internally built in but most of them probably including the TP link TL MR 100 have come with Come with little antennas this big But you can simply remove them and wire in an external antenna The next thing you're going to need to do when specking out your antenna is to make sure that firstly it's legal You don't need a license to install this antenna in your property And secondly that the antenna is going to cover the frequencies for whatever Data plan you're using in your cellular router because the different antennas are going to cover different Frequencies and that's pretty much all there is to it if everything goes well You should find that using a more powerful external antenna Especially if you're going to be deploying it outdoors is going to give you improved connectivity Versus using the built-in one in my situation using the TP link MR 100 Even though I wasn't able to install an external antenna by simply using a third-party more powerful antenna I was able to jump from 3g connectivity Using the antennas that came with the router up to 4g connectivity Which is a lot faster and that just means that it's a little improved into my overall system But it does mean that whenever the ISP connection drops on my network and we fail over to cellular The cellular connection at a fairly good 4g connection is a lot more usable than 3g And therefore the difference in Speed of the network when that occasional failover happens is going to be even less noticeable again This is a little incremental improvement. 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