LHG LTE6 kit CAT6 LTE Modem for Very Remote/Rural Locations Within Cellular Network Coverage

These are very much for technically minded individuals. I have been an IT / Network Engineer for over 10 years, so setup was easy. I had to get deep into the command line to change settings for TTL, etc. Overall it works great. I have a strong T-Mobile signal at home and regularly get over 60mbit down, 10mbit up. It makes a great backup to my Unlimited VDSL2 from Frontier that has issues from time to time. These are a great investment as a backup or primary connectivity mecahnism.

Set up the sim card in a phone, remove it from the phone and put it in the modem, connect the modem to a POE router or use the included adapter, and enjoy. I never had issues with orientation, but I've never tried to use it in a very remote location where the dish would be a gain.

I am not a mikrotik lover but I recognize that they have solutions that others do not, at least speaking of prices, this antenna leaves a lot to be desired because it works only on 3G LTE, extremely low speeds, I tested it right next to a provider tower and maximum I reached 30 megabytes, when on the phone I tried a speedtest and it gave me 400 megabytes, the difference is clear, 4G LTE and 3G LTE but I have another router that has antennas of only 5 dbi and it worked with 230 Mbps, this antenna really disappointing , I am not returning it because I plan to modify it for other purposes, do not really spend your money on this model, it is really lousy.

The Bands are for INT and most will not work in the States. You may get one band but it defeats the purpose of the LTE6 Dual Band speed. Wait for them to release the US version. Please update the listing with the Bands and a warning about using in the USA!

The product appears to be typical MikroTik quality and design, and is in good working order. I'll update this review with some performance notes once deployed. I am writing this review to point out an error in the documentation and marketing literature: this product is equipped with a standard size (2FF) SIM card slot, not a micro (3FF) slot. I was confused as I watched my micro SIM slide back and forth down into an obviously-oversized SIM slot, and had to locate the appropriate bit driver to remove the main board from the housing to fish out the SIM. Placed in a 2FF adapter, the SIM card fits properly. I'm not sure how this slipped past MikroTik. UPDATE #1 -- I carried this out to a rural location in southwest Virginia where it will hopefully be permanently installed soon. I currently have a MikroTik SXT LTE KIT (US) out there which is shooting a signal reasonably well to a cell site believed to be somewhere between 12 and 16 miles away. AT&T uses bands 2 and 12/17 out there, so the loss of Band 4 compared to the SXT LTE (non-LTE6 version) isn't a big deal. Whereas the SXT LTE has a 60-degree beam width, the LHG LTE6 has a 25 degree beam width so it requires more patience with tuning, especially in my case where I really have no idea where the cell site is. Unfortunately, the LHG LTE6 I received shipped with old modem firmware which results in disconnects and lockups of the modem. I spent about 8 hours trying to find a signal where the SXT LTE had been performing reasonably well; the LHG LTE6 would find a signal and then drop it within a few minutes, after which it would refuse to search for any further signals (status "not searching") until the device was physically power cycled -- I'm not certain a simple RouterOS reboot was resolving this. I also found that the modem was not receptive to my requests to lock out certain bands; I believe it's because these commands were being sent while the modem was in a lockup condition. I have since learned of the defects in the earlier modem firmware; upgrade to working V25 (or better) is available using command (with Internet connectivity available to the LHG LTE6) "/interface lte1 firmware-upgrade lte1 upgrade=yes". Experimentation here at home shows the LHG LTE6 is now behaving as expected, so I'll be carrying it back out to the site next weekend and will provide further updates.

If you have a reasonable (at least a couple bars) cellular signal, you can get this dish and a 4g tethering plan and connect your home network to it. I'm able to get a SINR of 17-20 without any trouble at all, and about 40 mbit synchronous speed. Several providers offer uncapped / unthrottled plans, although expect to pay a decent amount for them. If you want fast internet and you can't get cable this is a decent option.

Work great. Configure the best two bands for your zone and it work excelent.

super estable la coneccion. si funsiona en EE.UU El mejor dispositivo para wifi que he tenido

received product very fast 3 days from shipping. shipped with DHL Express. Setup was easy and straight fwd. I am on island and base station with line of sight is on another island approx 10 km away. Directed antenna there, and immediately it picked up 2 bands 1 and 20. Base station is emitting 1,3,20. I have excluded 1, and allowed only 3 and 20 because when i measured speeds 3 was be than 1. 20 is low freq and it is there if 3 goes down for maintenance or if it get to crowded. all in all, i am satisfied with choice.

My Broadband provider ceased operations and Gigaclear installation could be 6 months away, so I needed a temporary internet solution (in rural Glocestershire). I spent £300 on a Netgear Nighthawk M1 modem and puck antenna, with an O2 SIM, but I could only get 2 bars and 3-5 Mbps on a very intermittent basis (worked for a couple of hours then whole days with nothing). A neighbour recommended the Mikrotik LTE6 so I did some online research and decided to throw another £150 at the problem. I paid for fast delivery on Amazon and received the Mikrotik dish in 2 days (from Denmark). Using the same O2 Sim I'm getting a fairly steady 8-12Mbps, which is better than BT broadband out here (2Mbps), or my previous supplier Voneus (6-8Mbps). Gigaclear will give us over 50Mbps, eventually, but Mikrotik is a great solution till we can get that. It was relatively easy to set up. You need a long Ethernet cable plugged into a laptop to log into the Mikrotik and then you have to check out location and direction for the best signal. The antenna is directional so worth spending the time (using Ookla speed tester) to check the signal in every direction before finalising the perfect location/direction. Be aware that you may need to go onto the roof for best signal and you need to mount this to a pole using the clamps provided. Once I realised that I needed to input the APN code for O2 and took it outside it all worked great - more or less 'out of the box'. I was then able to run the ethernet cable direct to my Mesh Router and I had wifi all over the house again at a steady 8-12 Mbps. So I'm really pleased with this device and would definitely recommend if you're in an area of poor broadband/phone signal. However, if what I wrote above sounds like techno-babble to you, then maybe its not the solution for you.

Después de demasiadas horas, mas por cabezonería que por necesidad, me di por vencido. No hay forma de conseguir "Carrier aggregation" en este dispositivo. Obviamente me funciona perfectamente en otros routers. Me fuerzo y me conecto a las mismas antenas... consiguiendo velocidades de 50/60mb con LTE+. Pero con este dispositivo no hay forma. Solo se conecta a una, con la consecuente pérdida de velocidad...

Ottimo router. Abito in alta montagna e con questa parabola direttiva sono riuscito a collegarmi perfettamente al ripetitore Vodafone. Passando dai 3mbit del cellulare a 50mbit in ethernet. Il software interno è incredibile. Permette di fare di tutto. Danno anche un alimentatore esterno per il POE. Non c'è bisogno di un router Poe. Basta collegarlo ad un access point wifi. Consigliatissimo

Ottimo prodotto, molto professionale. L’ho testato ed ho deciso di renderlo per prendere il modello SXT LTE6 solo perché la distanza dalla cella (~1,5 km) non giustificava l’uso di questa antenna che fa la differenza su distanze molto più ampie. In pratica io non ho apprezzato il suo potenziale perché già con la SXT raggiungevo l’obiettivo di massima ricezione possibile. Unico neo: l’angolo di 25 gradi e l’assenza delle tacche di potenza del segnale che invece ci sono sull’SXT rende l’installazione più complessa: si deve calcolare bene la direzione di puntamento verso la cella e non si ha un immediato riscontro del buon esito.