The right antenna for a Huawei 4G router

[eidiohir]

I get my 4G broadband through a Huawei B593 router which for the most part works very well. However sometimes the speed can get very slow. As I am about four or more miles from the mast I rightly or wrongly put this down to weather effects. I have thought of buying an antenna to possibly improve reception and I found this likely candidate on E-Bay. I wonder if it is any good? There are a pair of little antennae that can be had that screw onto the back of the router but I want something better.
So does anyone know the right path to take please?

 

[Ric]

I have no experience of that antenna, however I have succeeded in improving reception of my own Huawei router by putting it in a plastic bag and lifting it to near the top of the mast with the topping lift. Tie a line back to the pushpit so it is suspended away from the mast itself.

 

[martinriches]

I have one of these : http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Omni-Directional-4G-3G-LTE-MIMO-External-Antenna-Huawei-E5372-Netgear-Aircard-/331263895020?hash=item4d20dde5ec:g:NkkAAOSwP8hTxorE I get a significant improvement using it on a 2m pole.

Martin

 

[davidwf]

Used to work for Huawei and was involved with the LTE (4G) trail in Cornwall. I had around one hundred Yagi antennas manufactured that were externally mounted on peoples houses, however these were very directional and tuned for the 800Mhz band, aligning them was easy for us because we knew exactly where the towers were.

Have you tried the two screw in antenna, from memory that modem uses an internal antenna by default and if you screw the two external antennas in you have change the settings to use those antenna. That should help.