Poynting 4G-XPOL-A0001 Cross Polarised 4G Omni LTE Antenna

I recently bought a TP Link 4G Router after our contract with awful BT came to an end. Our router is wonderful and and before we bought an external antenna, our reception was acceptable using the 'rabbit ears' that came with the router. I took a punt and bought a second hand (nearly new) external antenna from Amazon to see if it would make a difference to our internet speeds. It's like night and day! I've shared a screenshot of the SNR, RSRP etc, but all I know that streaming HD videos etc is effortless now and everything loads so much faster. My router states we get 100% reception which is great and I know our local mast is only a few miles away. I mounted it to an outside gutter pipe (I have trust issues with suction cups!) and temporally fed the 2x2 mimo cable through our Livingroom window. A longer term solution is to drill a hole through our wall and feed the cable through there instead. Brilliant! As soon as I mounted it and connected the cables to the router, it worked instantly. There was no need to point the antenna in a particular direction as it's an omnidirectional antenna. ======== UPDATE: Had the antenna around three weeks and still works great. But wondered if I could paint it to blend in with the house a bit better - white stands out like a sore thumb. A quick check on the manufacturers website states that you can indeed paint your antennas, so long as the paint does not contain metal, which would interfere with the radio waves. Bought a can of acrylic UV resistant matte black spray paint and sprayed the antenna and cable....it now blends in with our pipe guttering outside which the antenna is attached to. And we still get 100% signal using the antenna. Brilliant. ======= Update: 16th September 2022 -------- Antenna is still going strong whatever the weather has thrown at it. Record breaking heatwaves to monsoons and thunder & lightning. With regards to the latter, the RSRP (Reference Signal Received Power) did drop to -110dBm (normally sits at -71dBm for me), which in simple terms, poor signal strength. This was only for a few days then it reverted back to its regular strength. This is by no means the fault of the antenna, but the torrential rain affects the radio waves to/ from the antenna. Something to keep in mind if you buy one. Otherwise this antenna is still going strong. Worth the purchase. Highly Recommend. -------- Update 1st March 2023 ---------- Back in 2020 I purchased a 4G Router for my parents who - back then - lived rurally. Last year they moved home to the edge of a small town and took their router with them, and continued to use the 'Bunny Ears' antennas that came with the device. Even though they are situated 3/4 a mile between two local phone masts, they were only getting an average of 20mbps down and half that up, but sometimes it was much slower at peak times. I recently purchased this external antenna for them - the exact same antenna I use - and installed it on the side of their house nearest facing the local phone masts. It has more than doubled their internet speeds, the highest being 50mbps down and 30mbps up. It's like night and day! General lightweight browsing was never a problem, but more intense stuff like HD video streaming on several devices, the router was struggling with the use of the Bunny Ears antennas. With the external antenna, it's now in line of sight of both phone masts without the interference of windows or walls. Also the cherry-on-the-cake was the price; A brand new antenna would cost around £80 at the time of writing this updated review. I bought this 'Nearly New' from Amazon Warehouse for around £60. At the Checkout, Amazon added a promotional discount on top and whacked an additional £20 off too! So the final price was around £40! bargain! 10/10 on everything about this antenna.

Well, it works! From a 2or3 out of 5 bars signal on my phone outside this little beauty improved reception to a solid 5 on my 5G router & it delivers a rock-steady high download speed so I’m a very happy chappy. This arrives tightly packed into its box & comes with almost exactly five metres of pre-terminated dual cable as well as hammer-in wall screws & plugs, some clear suction mounts and a jubilee clip for pole mounting plus the instructions. The mounting bracket is plastic but it certainly seems sturdy enough for the job & it was easy enough to mount on the wall where I wanted it. If you need to thread the cable through a wall I would suggest at least a 24mm drill bit because of the connectors on the end of the cable, and if you need cable clips externally the standard twin satellite cable type of clips seem to be a perfect fit. I can see no reason why this shouldn’t carry on doing a good job for a good few years to come but if anything changes I will update this review. So far though I rate this very highly.

I bought this along with a 4G router. As they work as an integrated pair it is hard to review one part without accepting some performance will be won or lost by the other. That being said I have bolted this to the side of my house and the router says I have 100% signal strength; it doesn’t get better than that of course. On the other hand, the mast I connect to is only 550m away from my house with a largely uninterrupted line of sight. Truth be told I probably don’t need this external antenna however I wanted to make sure I had the best results I could get. Why only 4 stars if I get a 100% signal strength? Firstly, the product come with hammer fix fastenings which I don’t like to work with. I would prefer regular screws and Rawl plugs or better yet expanding bolts. I guess the thinking is everybody has a hammer but then you still need a drill and if you have a drill you have a screwdriver. Anyway that alone isn’t enough to lose a star, there are no cable clips with it. It is unescapable that you will be running a cable down a wall at some point so why no clips? I am aware when some people buy a product they expect every conceivable accessory to be included with it at no extra cost however in this case I really do feel five to ten clips would not have broken the profit margin for Poynting. The last issue is perhaps the most irritating. To angle the antenna you must loosen a plastic lock nut under the bracket so you can lift the splines on the main casing out of the retaining collar on the bracket. The nut is stiff to turn which is irritating and given you may well be doing this while on a ladder possibility adds an extra element of danger. It is still because this is also where the cable runs into the body of the antenna enclosure and it has some kind of silicone/rubber/nylon type packing in the hole the collar turns around. This is for weather proofing of course but the extra friction I would imagine puts the cables under extra strain as you turn the lock nut. I would liked to have seen a proper cable gland providing weather sealing and protection for the cable with perhaps an isolated lock nut for freeing the body from the splines for adjustment. In summary we have a product that is easy enough to install but not as easy as it could have been. Is easy enough to adjust but not as easy as it could have been and is well enough made but not as well designed as it could have been. It is worth reading the notes for installers on their website especially in regards of reducing cable strain by attaching it to the bracket and not letting the cable simply hang down and also allowing for a drip loop to allow water to run off (and not follow the cable into your building!). This product works well enough and I would imagine there are commercial/industrial quality products that are better perhaps more robust but at a higher price. This seems to be a consumer product and I guess the design reflects a balance between build quality, ease of use and cost. If you have marginal 4G reception you should certainly get one of these or the directional one if you know where to point it. If you are relying on equipment for commercial use where you can’t risk downtime maybe, just maybe there is a commercial quality unit you should look for.

It is great product

Pas utilisé, je mettrai un avis lors de son utilisation. Mais il a l 'air conforme

Great product, speedy delivery and works as described in the blurb. Cheers

Je possède un abonnement 4G Box Bouygues avec une relative proximité des relais réseaux. Avec la 4g Box seule j'avais des gros soucis aux heures de pointes et le soir car très grosses baisses de débits en gros je plafonnais entre 5-13Mb voir moins le soir. D'abord j'ai essayé les antennes à ventouses à la vitre, la première qu'on trouve à 15-20€ a permis tout de même après avoir trouvé le placement optimum de stabiliser un peu la connexion, mais bon toujours ces grosses baisses et Netflix qui tombe dans une mauvaise résolution le soir. J'ai voulu essayé le modèle Netgear à 70€ mais gain quasi identique que l'antenne bas de gamme à 15€, renvoyé... Ensuite je me suis dit allez je tente un modèle onéreux un de ceux les plus recommandé sur Amazon mais (dans mon cas encore une fois je précise) le gain était pas là ... grosse douche froide, j'avais essayé de l'orienter comme il faut de bien la placer mais non vraiment, la cata.. Enfin en ayant renvoyé les précédentes j'ai testé celle là, c'était un peu la dernière carte et ce fut la bonne !! Le seul défaut que je trouve à cette antenne c'est les ventouses une calamité à enfoncer correctement. J'ai de toute façon priviligié à la fin un placement sur un mat le collier à visser est trés pratique d'ailleurs. Niveau perf, je baisse en signal mais grosse nouveauté je me connecte en 1800Mhz en 4g+ là où avant j'étais en 800Mhz avec plus de barres certes mais un débit inférieur (pour résumé pour ceux qui le savent pas, les opérateurs émettent plusieurs fréquences, plus c'est bas plus ca traverse les murs mais moins le débit est important en gros). Donc oui j'ai moins de barre mais voilà là où j'avais 5-6mbvoir une dizaine max en heure de pointe je suis maintenant entre 20 et 30 Mb !!! Et çà change tout au niveau confort et streaming De mon point de vue si vous avez une seule antenne à acheter prenez celle là ! pour la connecter à la 4g box il vous faudra un adaptateur SMA - TS9, j'ai aussi pris des cables plat pour passer par la fenêtre sans percer.

For some reason i was getting slower internet when using it.