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

I have gone from landline broadband of 0.2 mbps to over 11 mbps this is incredible given that my mobile phone reception is so poor and only works with a booster. This ariel was simple to connect and worked straight out of the box. It took a little bit of time to find the exact position but if you live in a good reception area my friend who I recommended this product to went from 4mbps to over 90 mbps in rural Scotland.Everything was included in the box and for once a product just worked, with the omni direction and a good dual router its an excellent product.It gives a good consistent speed it will drop slightly in extremely bad weather but so does a mobile phone, it can also be a bit slower at peak times but again that is more to do with the provider than the equipment.If your looking at this product ave no doubts about buying it as it really does work, its well made and has been exposed over the last few weeks to a variety of severe weather situations and it still continues on. I currently have it stuck to the outside of my window and despite the wind and the rain it hasn't moved.With the good results I got I was contacted by a company who said that their ariel could increase my speed to at least 60mbps, well two hours later and they could not match the speed I was getting with this ariel. Their product was over three times the price of this and was actually quite flimsy when I saw it.If you are looking to purchase you will not be disappointed .

I live in a fringe 4G area and have tried all sorts of addon 'whip' aerials for my Teltonika 4G router, each antenna set has made some difference in signal and/or stability of the signal - all have been loft installed pinned to rafters. With the router supplied antennas I struggled to get 5 Mbps down and it was flaky.I ordered this external aerial as a 'punt' and, already, am seeing definite benefits. I have just installed it temporarily in my loft while I wait for mounting hardware. Prior to installation of this unit I was using two LTE 'high gain' whips (cheap but effective) and these improved my signal stability greatly and speed increased to over 12Mbps, sometimes 20 but it was still unstable.Several speed tests before and after installation show an average upload improvement of about 20 Mbps (now 40 Mbps or greater), upload has shown about 8Mbps improvement (again this is compared to my router with better aerials, not the originals supplied). I am being conservative with the numbers here.I am quite confident I can improve the speeds somewhat by getting the aerial outside and in the clear and will update this accordingly.I should also say I installed one of these Poynting aerials for a neighbour who had zero 4G signal on her phone handset. We could not achieve a stable connection using a teltonika router with it's supplied magnetic whips. We installed this Poynting aerial upstairs (again in loft space, while waiting for an installer) and achieved a good consistent 21+ Mbps upload / 45 - 61 Mbps Download. Again, I would expect improvement with the aerial located outside in the clear.Both my neighbour and I had been battling with BT to get any service at all, both being at the end of poorly maintained and very long overhead copper.Internet is not a luxury in this day and age, especially out in the sticks. Both connections discussed above are with EE and very much cheaper than a very poor quality landline and ADSL in name only (not to mention the stress of dealing with BT). Mobile handsets can piggyback of the EE connection.I am quite happy with the construction of the aerials, it is supplied with 5M leads terminating in SMA male. The plastics are solid, I can not see anywhere water could ingress and the cables are of sufficient quality to last. I have no qualms about mounting this hardware outside - even in northern Scotland where the weather tends to weed out poor quality hardware.I recommend this product based on 11 years of trying to get BT service without incurring either a coronary or breakdown, several experiments with 4G hardware and 35 years of being a licensed radio operator - not to mention the ability to actually use iPlayer and Amazon Prime Video from these remote wind blown parts.

Arrives with the antenna, 5m of (rather stiff) cable, male SMA connectors attached, some screws and so on, and a little booklet.The picture is incorrect, the supplied antenna is the newer version, although it looks very similar.This antenna is quite small, and the aerials inside the unit are probably the same size or perhaps even smaller than the ones in your router. Not only that, but the cable loses signal, as all cables do. So in some cases you aren't going to get better reception than you are already getting. Where this antenna comes in, is if your router is badly positioned, and being able to place the antenna somewhere within the 5m reach of the cables offers a significant improvement. In my case, it did not. In all the positions I tried, there was no noticeable difference. I could tell you that the difference was only 1dbi, but you would probably get different results.The Poynting is very well-made, but it is small, especially for the money. Size is everything with an antenna, and I compared the Poynting with a much larger Chinese unit that was 20% more expensive, but three times the size. Finally, that gave the result I needed. It showed a gain of 7dbi over the existing antenna. It stabilised the signal, so there was a noticeable improvement.My conclusion on this, for me, was that the Poynting was a good option for something like a car or caravan where reception is terrible, and you just need to get the antenna out of the Faraday cage you are sitting in, but you also need compact size. However, if you are at home, and the size is less important, then go for a larger unit. The bigger, the better.Recommended for certain applications only.

**Note: At the time of writing, the antenna featured in the product description by Amazon is wrong. The photo of the antenna I've shared is the updated version 👍📡----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.

Right, not sure where to start really? I've got 3 home broadband and I'm in a poor signal area, getting around 6-7mbps. So obviously to improve the signal, my only option was to try an external aerial. Before I did this, I ran tests. I moved the router around, literally every part of my house, the only increase in signal appeared to be in the back bedroom, but that only increased it to around 11mbps. I thought I would try it in the loft. Not really much better unless I had it right on the apex of the roof, then was getting around 20mbps. Only wanted to leave the router in the loft as a very last resort, so I looked around and decided on this external aerial. When it arrived, I tried it all around the house, paying more attention to the rear, seeing that was the side with the strongest signal. Now I can say with all honesty, it increased the signal strength from 3 bars on the router, to 5 bars (full strength) and on the accompanying app, it went from an orange signal into the stronger green zone. But has for download speeds, made no difference whatsoever. So although I was happier with the stronger, more consistent signal, the speeds didnt work for me. So seeing that I got my strongest signal in the loft, I thought I'd fix the aerial to the chimney breast, right up at the apex. So to first test it I took the aerial and the router up into the loft and tried it.....low and behold, i got speeds of 35-40mbps. The signal strength didnt improve anymore, but the speeds did. So i decided this is where I'd fix the aerial. Now as the cables are only 5m long and i was using around 2 metres in the loft, i had only a small amount to play with in the bedroom underneath. So fixed the aerial, fed the cable down into a fitted wardrobe and had the router on a set of drawers next to the wardrobe. Connected it all up, ran tests and only getting around 16mbps. This literally made no sense whatsoever. On the router, you can set the aerial to internal, external, auto and both. So made sure it was set to external, it was. This was confirmed when disconnected (the light went red). Connected it back up, ran a speed test and 16mbps. So I had a choice, live with the speed or send back. Has it happened, the router wouldn't quite reach the set of drawers, due to the lack of cable, so decided to place it on the top shelf of the fitted wardrobe, push the then spare cable back into the loft and coiled it up. Ran another test and 33mbps. I've been continually testing the connection since (approx a 10 days or so now) and the speeds run consistently between 29-40mbps. Dont ask me how all this works, it makes literally no sense, but for whatever reason the speeds seem to work at it's best, if the aerial and router are as close as possible. Now I am fully qualified in aerials, satellites and networking, and I dont even understand it. If the external aerial works independently to the internal aerial, then theoretically the router could be placed anywhere within the 5m the cables allow, but that simply isnt the case. So my advice to anyone thinking of buying this aerial to improve their download/upload speeds, dont just assume you can screw it to any old wall and expect it to work. You have to try it EVERYWHERE. And also have to try and get your router as close as possible too.Now this was my experience and it may well be different for you? I am in a particularly poor signal area, surrounded by trees and buildings. So my advice would be, spend the full day if need be and try everywhere physically possible. There will be a place it works. I believe all the negative reviews are due to people buying it and screwing it to one place and not getting the results they was expecting. Now to be fair, you would think it would be a lot easier than my experience, but it just isn't. So stick with it, put some effort and time into it and I'm sure you can also make it work for you.

Managed to get a great deal on this so whilst the price was low I jumped in and I am so glad I didDoes exactly what everyone else is saying speeds up your 4G wi-fi and gives a stable connectionMy netflix was hit and miss, Alexa devices not working on BBC radio stations, web pages onPC slow to load etc.Now it's just like having normal home broadband, great stuff and I can take anywhere if I chooseI use a B535 Huawei router and 4G Home broadband from ThreeTake a look at the Before and after screenshotsBelieve the hype this really does the job well, I was looking for bells and whistles, after buyingthis I have realised it's all I needed, simple and straightforward and it workshappy chappy here

Tried using this to boost the signal to a Huawei B315 router. From an upstairs window, the router was showing a consistent 4 bars of signal from its own internal antennae. I was hoping that by mounting this higher on the roof outside, I would get the router to 5 bars and the significant boost in speed this would bring.Initially, the antenna did not perform well. Indoors, at the same location the router was already in, attaching this antenna, (and updating the settings to use an external antenna), not only resulted in the same 4 bars of signal, but also a decrease in transfer speeds.With a heavy heart, climbed a ladder to give it a try on the roof anyway (2 storey house). After much messing about (at significant risk to my own structural integrity), moving the antenna and doing multiple speed tests on my phone, could not get any more than 4 bars and it did seem to DEGRADE the signal to the router. Without the antenna, speeds were faster.Can't understand how this antenna has so many positive reviews. Perhaps I have a faulty unit? I suspect that the signal generated by this antenna is degraded significantly by the long 5m cable it has to travel down. The nlantenna itself also seems light, plasticky and not well made. The join in the casing seems uneven and poorly glued to me.Returning for a refund and looking for a better option.

I already had a fairly decent speed from my TP Link antennas of 30 down and 15 up which was a great improvement from my BT Broadband of 13 down 1.5 up. BT decided they wanted to put there prices up to £36 pm which I thought was a joke considering the speed they were giving me. I decided to go with VOXI on the Vodafone network as this is the strong network in my rural location. They are a little pricey at £35 pm unlimited data but it works for me. So, by changing to 4G I hadn’t saved any money but I had gained double the speed.As I am paying a high monthly price I thought I would see how fast I could get my internet by buying an external antenna. I had tried one external antenna but it only had one cable and it didn’t work.The Poynting antenna feels well made and has a reasonable cable length although a little longer would have been good. When I first contacted the antenna not a lot changed. I was getting the same speed. After some trial and error I managed to reboot and set up the router from scratch which then tripled the down load speed that I am getting. Finding the sweet spot for the antenna is the hard part. A slight movement from its location drastically changes the results. I had planned on attaching it to my drain pipe but I was back down to 30 MBps. My sweet spot seems to be bang in the middle of my upstairs window attached using the suckers. Not where I wanted it but at 96mbps I’m not going to grumble too much. The suckers were difficult to put on the antenna but a previous review had said to use a bottle opener which worked for me.

It is great product

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 streamingDe 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.

Compré esta antena tras leer muchísimos comentarios de distintos modelos ya que era Omnidireccional. Al no tener visión directa con la antena del operador incluso estando muy cerca, en mi caso menos de 1,5km, entre pinos y una pequeña vaguada, la señal era muy baja, aproximadamente unos -115/-120dbi lo que corresponde a una señal de mala calidad.En muchos sitios me dijeron que una direccional también me serviría si la enfocaba correctamente aunque no tuviese visión directa pero no fue así. Compré una antena Wonect direccional de color negro que podéis ver en alguna foto y no funcionó bajo mis necesidades de localización.La antena Poynting la estoy utilizando con un router Huawei B535-235, anteriormente usé un TPLINK MR6400 que medio funcionó bien unos días y luego falló más que una escopeta de feria por lo cual terminé devolviendo y comprando el Huawei que funciona muchísimo mejor, con más potencia, mayor cobertura y más estabilidad en la señal, no hay color de uno a otro y si estas dudando no te lo pienses.Ahora obtengo una señal de -95dbi lo que se considera una buena señal y he pasado de descargar de unos 1,5 - 4Mbps a una velocidad máxima de 30-35mbps. ¡¡¡¡Ojo, no siempre alcanzo esta velocidad!!!! depende de muchos factores, en mi caso al vivir en una zona de segundas residencias, los fines de semana, aumenta el número de habitantes/domingueros y al parecer la red se satura por lo que la velocidad baja pero esto ya no es problema de router o antena sino del operador. El resto del tiempo, entre semana y días relativamente normales, tengo una bajada de 10-15 megas mínimo.La antena la puse en el exterior sobre un mástil, visualizando en google maps la dirección de la antena del operador, comprobando con el router y el móvil donde obtenía más cobertura, no hace falta mucho más ya que al ser omnidireccional, la antena orienta el núcleo de recepción hacia donde más potencia recibe. A los 15 min de estar en el tejado ya tenía varios vecinos de la urbanización interesándose por la solución ya que estamos todos en las mismas. "Gracias Movistar por no ponernos fibra y pedir a las operadoras locales más de 1500€ por poste de madera pagado con dinero público cuando erais Telefónica para poder lanzar el cable"Según el fabricante la ganancia de dbi es poca, sino recuerdo mal, unos +2dbi, pero en la realidad funciona mucho mejor que eso.No soy ningún profesional ni antenista, simplemente me volví freak por unos días y probé varias soluciones hasta dar con la buena, a mi esta me funciona.Espero os sirva y os ahorre el tiempo que yo invertí en dar con ella.Saludos!!!

Leider ist die Antenne verbunden mit einem o2-Homespot nicht zu gebrauchen! Egal wie man die Antenne ausrichtet, dass Signal wird nicht besser. Ohne diese Antenne ist mein 3G/LTE Empfang um weiten besser als mit dieser.Am o2-Homespot wurde auch die Aussenantenne aktiviert, falls einige denken es würde daran liegen.Ob ein defekt an der Antenne vorliegt kann ich nicht beurteilen, sie geht an Amazon Retoure.

Non avendo un'ottima copertura nella mia zona per Wind Tre (ho la sim abbonamento del webcube) ed avendo un router Huawei B535-232 ho preso questa antenna della Poynting. Un'ottima antenna installata sul balcone al primo piano, ha portato il segnale quasi al massimo. Il ripetitore e' a 1700 mt. circa e con l'app Hilink Huawei avevo con antenna integrata le barre tra rosso e arancione con un download a 5 mbit/sec. Ora segna la barra sul blu e si raggiungono 40/50 mbit/sec. Bisogna fare delle prove per capire il punto migliore di ricezione, ma se avete accesso al tetto credo sia ancora piu' semplice.