Is band aggregation possible in the ZTE MF258K router?

Hi forumers!

Is it possible to aggregate bands on the ZTE MF258K router? I know that there is an application for Huawei routers.

And where does the router come from and in what network and where is it supposed to work? On FW for T-mobile, it is possible to select specific bands for aggregation in WebUI, and also even carriers and PCI. The equipment aggregates 4 LTE bands, those from Play do not have the band selection function and cause problems, are you dissatisfied with the B818 with the Cybertech antenna?

NOWY987654321 wrote:

And where does the router come from and in what network and where is it supposed to work? On FW for T-mobile, it is possible to select specific bands for aggregation in WebUI, and also even carriers and PCI. The equipment aggregates 4 LTE bands, those from Play do not have the band selection function and cause problems, are you dissatisfied with the B818 with the Cybertech antenna?

Just the B818 with the Cybertech antenna works great I'm asking on behalf of a friend, he wants to have Internet at a cheap cost in a very poor location and he took this set from Playa, unfortunately he had no other option.

And what is this location and what does the Settings-Network-LTE Settings tab look like on MF258k?

NOWY987654321 wrote:

And what is this location and what does the Settings-Network-LTE Settings tab look like on MF258k?

A low house in the woods, the antenna probably mounted on a tree. 51.908374 20.670884

In such conditions, a friend should not take this set, first of all it is problematic with FW Play and above all it does not provide the correct signal parameters on LTE1800 from BTS Pniewy, the aggregation on the screen is the LTE1800 base band, the signal is very weak and LTE800 to it with sufficient signal. LTE1800 + 2100 aggregation does not turn on, signal on LTE2100 is probably fragmentary. In addition, FW for Play does not allow forcing LTE bands, including LTE2100 + 1800 aggregation.
He must try to change the mounting location of the antenna, and preferably change the equipment and after the tests select an external antenna for 1800-2100MHz with high gain.

I'll update the topic a bit. I bought a router MF258 Orange network. Request for help in optimizing band aggregation. You can set up band/frequency/pci locks in the router....

The nearest transmitter to which the antenna is directed:


Router automatic parameters:


Band aggregation tab:

Ask @jarek7714 he knows it as little as anyone and based on the PCI shown he will show you BTSs and sectors on individual Orange carriers.
Seriously, you have LTE1800+2100+1800 aggregation, 3 sector, you have sufficient signal parameters on LTE1800/800 and weak on LTE2100. Do you live in the area between Wroniawy and Obra? What are your DL/UL speeds under these conditions on the MF258K?

Kębłów area. The antenna directed at Wroniawy. On auto settings DL UL:

The result is correct for this time, but ORANGE is not an operator for this location, I bet on KĘBŁOWO because you showed PCI W in ORANGE and PCI 76 on LTE1800 is the 2nd sector from OBRA, the antenna receives backwards, the signal from OBRA is much worse for this reason . But Obra has LTE2600+2100+1800+800. PCI 226 is the neighboring 2nd sector from Wroniawa, I would try with this BTS Obra, maybe it will be better.
And the operator for KĘBŁÓW is PLAY because it has BTS with LTE2600+2100+1800+800 there, I would test PLAY on Virgin-Mobile 470GB/MC pre-paid for PLN 15.

Just changing the direction of the antenna would involve a significant modification of the installation, which I honestly don't want to do ... The question is whether you can still "tune up" the parameters on these settings ...

No, setting BTS NetWORKS without LTE2600 is unlikely to give better results, 3 bands in aggregation, signal parameters on LTE1800 and SINR below 16dB, so maximum modulation QAM64 instead of QAM256. Hence, such results, depending also on the sector's load, may be even slower in the evenings. LTE2100+1800+800 is 35MHz of available bandwidth, there is an additional 15MHz on LTE2600 in OBRA, i.e. 50MHz in total, and the LTE2600 band is usually the least loaded and the fastest.
But I think that in PLAY from Kębłów on 4 bands LTE2600+2100+1800+800 with 55MHz it will be much faster, BTS is close, signal parameters are probably better and SINR allows for QAM256, I have 250-300Mb / s from a similar one.

@spider_net, unfortunately, the equipment with the current modem settings has too weak signal parameters to be able to extract the maximum from aggregation (although in Orange with this aggregation it is different / personally I use only B1 + B7 / QoS does its job). I have not used this equipment / from the information on the web it appears that the firmware version is important.