[Solved] Improving Huawei 4G 3 Prime Router's Coverage with Antennas: Is it Worth the Investment?

Hello, for 2 years I have been using a Huawei mobile router with a battery for a sim card, connected to the TV via USB non-stop. I have a stove, monitoring, WIFI alarm. I heard that the HUAWEI4GROUTER 3PRIME Router is a very good device and at least 4 times more expensive than my mobile, well-functioning predecessor. I bought it, in a single-family house, the range is full, I will leave the house, losing the network. The cameras cannot be configured because I do not have coverage. My question is whether for the connectors on the 3prime MAIN DIV router for antennas, if I buy an antenna, it will improve the quality significantly? or just send back and buy something else. The router for PLN 200 is better than the flagship for PLN 800? Is it worth buying an antenna or choosing something else?

Enter the models of these cameras, what is the alarm, etc.

molskyka wrote:

The cameras cannot be configured because I do not have coverage.

Or maybe they just work at addresses other than the router?

Sannce model cameras, kerui alarm. Devices don't matter. Poor coverage outside the home due to the lack of an antenna. Can they help me?

Your problem is not an LTE router, but your idea to build monitoring based on WiFi cameras, you owe it to yourself nobody who is a professional will build a home network, monitoring, alarm. You ask for problems, you have them. There is no router that would cover the effective range of the house, basement and the area around it, the effectiveness of your monitoring and alarm is close to zero, but if you insisted on such inventions, add an additional AP at home and some one outside and connect to the B818 with LAN cables. Antenna connectors on the B818 are used to connect LTE / 3G antennas.

matek451 wrote:

the effectiveness of your monitoring and alarm is close to zero

I ignore the fact that these are typical oblique inventions with real security devices that have nothing to do with - it can only be mounted to a shed with a rake as a curiosity.

Hello, for 2 years, this monitoring worked for me on the old mobile router. Only after replacing the router do I have problems. So I don't think my solution is wrong.

You do not have a "solution" but only a trash that lulls your vigilance ...
I asked if all devices work in the same address class and what?

Hello, all devices work at 2.4 G. It's not the devices' fault. I leave the house and the smartphone loses wifi. The old Alcatel onetouch mobile router has been apologized and is operational.

@molskyka Do you know what the same router address pool is? Do you have the same address range, same network name set?
I'm not interested in the phone.

You are aware that the WIFi connection is easy to disrupt, the more that these webcams are connected to some signal remnants on 2.4MHz from this g .. and Alcatel, measure the signal from it with these webcams only not in lines but https: / /play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer&hl=pl installed on a phone that connects to ALCATEL and show the results. Comparing this electro-scrap to the B818 is a bad joke, they are separated by light years, and the ALCATEL is worth not 200 but 20-30 PLN if someone buys it. As I wrote, if you want to have WIFI coverage, an additional AP is used. I am also curious what dizzying speeds you achieve on this MiFi behind the TV, I suspect that the internet works thinly

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I have no idea about these address pools. I am interested in wifi coverage which is weak outside the home unlike Alcatel

Do not make a joke, what you showed are the WiFi signal parameters on the phone from this Alcatel in a place where you have a camera connected to Alcatel outside via WiFI? And how does PLAY internet work on this ALCATEL, speedtest show.

molskyka wrote:

I have no idea about these address pools. I am interested in wifi coverage which is weak outside the home unlike Alcatel

So ask someone who has an idea for help.

This is the test result.

As for PLAY, not much, and now the same, but on B818 and a screen with information about the device after logging in to 192.168.8.1 in the case of B818, you use Hmanager or LTEinspecteur to manage LTE bands and signal diagnostics on them, it is a primer for each user HUAWEI HiLink. Low UL is also indirect evidence of poor signal parameters inside the house. In the aggregation of 4 CC CA in PLAY, you can get high speeds after ensuring the correct signal on 1800-2600MHz, even now when people are sitting non-stop on the Internet https://www.speedtest.pl/wynik/236407328

Tomorrow I will install this huaweia, and I will say that I am closer to returning the goods. I do not know if it is worth buying antennas, do they improve the wifi signal by connecting to the router? do they improve signal download? I thought that it was enough to connect the router to the power supply and it flashes, however, it turns out that the configuration matters. My first contact with the forum is asking for advice. You can see that, however, everything is so moving forward that man is far behind.

Your problem is the pressure on WIFI and blind faith in its operation, today all routers work with 100mW at 2.4GHz and 200mW at 5GHz and have a similar range. It depends on many factors and for the stable operation of devices using it, the signal from the router must be at least -70dBm and such a signal must be provided by cameras outside, in practice, taking into account the distance and attenuation of the signal by walls, ceilings, etc., difficult to achieve. Therefore, for them there should be some external AP and its location and radiation pattern depends on the location of the cameras. But it's still a half-measure, cameras today are connected and powered via POE via an Ethernet cable, a proven solution, WiFi cameras are toys.

Hello, I don't know why you are so skeptical about wifi cameras, I trade them every day. People buy for convenience no cables easy DIY installation. 4 mpx Most importantly, it works, I have a 120m2 single-family house, one-story house, 4 cameras, a stove, an alarm on this funny Alcatel, everything works. On the huawee, the spell breaks after leaving the house, is he so weak or do you have to sit with him and pay attention to him? greetings

molskyka wrote:

Hello, I don't know why you are so skeptical about wifi cameras, I trade them every day.

Good - you TRADE because you have no idea about their operation and configuration.
He has been professionally installing security systems for almost 20 years and I have not seen bigger g ... than WiFi cameras.

molskyka wrote:

People buy for convenience no cables easy DIY installation.

And then, on the Forum, weeping and lamenting that the trash is not working, and complaints that the called Installer should do something about it, that he does not want to take up or insists on replacing it anyway.

molskyka wrote:

4 mpx

Chinese with potato matrix ...

molskyka wrote:

4 cameras, stove, alarm

This is not an ALARM, but an empty shell ...

molskyka wrote:

is he so weak do you have to sit with him and pay attention to him?

First, configure it correctly.
As for the transmitting power of the devices, it is the same in advance imposed by EU regulations and standards.

People even buy shit when they are told it is candy. We know the laws of physics, we can measure signal parameters, we know what they should be for the transmission to have the appropriate bitrate and be stable. Monitoring and alarm are not a toy, there is no room for interruptions in transmission. Convenience is the stability of the switch-on-and-forget operation, no cables, WIfi cameras need to be powered anyway, so the power cable must be led, today the standard is POE, cameras are most often powered from a recorder with a POE switch or from a separate POE switch.
Januszom you press everything, they have no idea what a professional solution should look like, and no one builds a home network based on a MIfi router like this ALCATEL, because it is a mobile device not dedicated to work 24/7. This is a Polish invention, consultants in salons push it to fools as home routers. In the case of a home network, LTE-A routers with GE LAN ports, external LTE / 3G antennas are used. Stationary devices are connected to them with LAN cables and mobile devices via WIfi, using additional APs connected to the router / switch with LAN cables. WIfi is today mainly a huge marketing of equipment sellers, but it is only a radio, still having its limitations and susceptibility to interference, especially at such high frequencies and inside the rooms.

matek451 wrote:

but it's just a radio, still having its limitations and susceptibility to interference, especially at such high frequencies and inside rooms.

After all, the ether is not made of rubber - it can be seen especially in the blocks where the Wifi network is working next to each other and the lamentation begins that the router is behind the wall and the pages are barely loading ...

After logging into the router, I have the following options.

I generally leave the house and the phone is not catching my WIFI

this router is having problems with WiFi coverage
https://gsmonline.pl/artykuly/huawei-4g-router-3-prime-test-recenzja-opinie-czy-warto

Are you leaning on it?
"At the same time, I pointed out that the range of WiFi itself is not particularly large for a stationary device. So if we plan to buy the Huawei 4G Router 3 Prime specifically to improve WiFi coverage in a large, multi-room apartment or a two-story house, such a solution may turn out to be insufficient and not necessarily better than other similar but cheaper devices. "
Seriously?

Hello, the router was diagnosed by HUAWEI Poland, a defect was detected that caused the above-mentioned problem. The router has been replaced with a new one. At this point, everything works smoothly, the topic is closed.