Long Ranger Antenna (BT974822) | Parabolic - Over 20 Miles Range | All Cell Bands: 5G, 4G, LTE | WiFi 2.4/5 GHz WiFi 6 | High Gain Cellular/WiFi Antenna up to +28 dB | All Carriers

It is worth mentioning that I live very rural in the agricultural deep south US. Cell towers with Verizon antennas are 4.9 and 6.9 miles from me. There is no wired internet in my area, the latency on the satellite internet is very high, I was on the waiting list for Starlink for a year before this solved my problem. Inside my house I have zero bars on Samsung Galaxy phones. Outside I can occasionally get enough service for a voice call and SMS, but MMS and the internet was largely unusable except under ideal conditions. I am a techy and I approach things in a logical manner to troubleshoot and tune. I have been working with this setup for over a year and I am quite comfortable with it.I installed my Celfi Go X system with the included plastic covered Yagi antenna and I was able to successfully hit the tower without a good line of sight. There are some far away trees on the horizon that make it tricky to hit this tower at 4.9 miles. After running the system the same way and tuning things in to get the best carrier frequency I ultimately found that while my signal strength was good, my signal quality was so low that operation became unstable. Signal quality is king. Testing proved that I could get better internet throughput when I used a carrier frequency with higher quality even with little to no signal strength.Armed with the above I present the Celfi Go app dashboard as evidence. The first 3 images are snapshots of the old antenna showing the fluctuations in strength and quality. This did allow for a good amount of online gaming when paired with my Cudy LT500 router and Verizon SIM card. (Update: Ditched the CUDY LT 500 for a Taktikal 1600 to allow for some nerd level customization. I still use the CUDY but for running cameras not facing the internet.) The most annoying thing with the fluctuations was the constant disconnecting and reconnecting of the phones switching frequencies. The Cudy router allowed me to select and lock onto a band and channel. The final image with signal quality in the 80% range is with the Long Ranger installed. This translates into a reliable 14 mbps down and 4 mbps up. (Update: Depending on time of day I have hit peaks of 25 mbps with 19 mbps sustained. I can download many GB games in just a few hours.) It seldom deviates from this even in nasty rainy weather. This allows for VOIP, video calling, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and gaming with no buffering or excessive lag. My kids do homeschooling without issue and we have made our neighbors jealous with our ability to rent movies online and watch them instantly in 4k. Needless to say, movie night is at our house.As far as the installation goes, I have this antenna mounted above my roofline on a metal pipe. There are some trees in the way, but they are off in the distance by about a mile. Once beyond them it is relatively clear to the tower. For $200 you cannot go wrong adding this to your system, but you need to be patient. The farther the tower the more sensitive direction is. I have roughly 8 degrees of movement before the signal is affected. I spun it to hit a farther tower as an experiment and it is tighter, around 5 degrees of movement before signal is affected. The important part is that I can hit another tower if I want to or need to. I ran for about a month on another tower at 751 mhz and it was solid and reliable until some network changes took place. I suddenly started having quality issues. I spun back to my original tower and everything was back to normal with 80% quality. I will update this as necessary.Update 06AUG2023!Had an issue with a cable that had a bad crimp. I do not think it came with the antenna though so no product issues there. I ordered a new one and everything got back to normal. This antenna does catch a little bit of wind so I have had it get spun on my antenna holder I made. I would recommend that you mount this to something pretty stout. Also, lightning took out a local tower. The generator failed so the tower was just out. I was able to re-aim it and hit the farther 7 mile tower with ease and continue on as normal. This really is a killer antenna. If you cannot hit what you need to with this I am not sure where to go from here. Bonus points, I have seen this exact antenna being used in Florida that appears to be a point to point communication system having to do with weigh stations or agriculture inspection stations at the state lines. It is nice to know this is a commercial level antenna .

We have T-Mobile Home Internet and actually live in an area where it is not officially supported but can still technically hit the towers.We have the Nokia 5G21 model gateway and did the external antenna mod, running U.FL pigtails out through the bottom and adapting to SMA and then to N type cables. We have only installed two of these so far, utilizing a 2x2 setup from the first two U.FL spots in the gateway. I plan to purchase two more of these for a full 4x4 MIMO setup.We live about 5 miles (in straight line) from the nearest T-Mobile tower, in a dense forest and so far with two antennas, we get pretty good reception but it could definitely be better utilizing all 4 antenna ports. We're probably seeing 70Mbps on average for download and 10Mbps upload. This is an improvement over the just 10Mbps down and 3Mbps up that we see with just the gateway's internal antennas. Ping is about 43ms. On signal, primary signal is -107dbm. Secondary signal is -106dbm.With proper tuning and the addition of 2 more of these, I expect to see speeds upward of around 100Mbps down when it'd all said and done. We just have a makeshift setup.. a galvanized fence post in a patio umbrella base with both antennas bolted to that.I'll be doing a more permanent setup soon, adding a second string of pipe to the pipe already being used so that the antennas can go higher. We'll also turn the antennas at an angle for cross polarization, as to improve signal quality a little more.

Purchased this setup to solve my weak cell issue...if there is a 0 star, I would pick that :1. In assembling the 2 half's, had major issues with aligning the 4 bolts. This unit was not made to specs and wa sonly able to align 2 botls..in addition, the metal had sharp, very sharp edges on the inside runs, so i cut my finger because if this......2. After all that and connecting to my booster, I got the same more or least as I have with my old small antenna...no long range gain ?3. I called Bolton tech support and the call was s joke, after they took all my info, he then said he can't help with the item as ot was purchased from Amazon and Amazon should solve my technical problems. Hmm?As such I am returning this thing and wasted so much time and money to setup up ( cable, adapters and the pole to install we're items i bought )