Mikrotik LHGG LTE6 - Modem update

[chrisshan]

The recent thunderstorms blew out the phone line and Vodafone router at my workplace, so I brought in my LHG with the EP06-E to provide temporary Internet access.  One thing's for sure, it's a night vs day improvement over the 8Mb DSL connection, especially the uplink, i.e. 0.5Mb vs 40Mb!  Another reason I brought it in due to something in the area over the past few months is causing havoc with local 3G and 800MHz 4G signals, rendering a mobile hotspot unusable, i.e. one moment everything is fine and next thing data becomes unusable and anyone on a mobile call gets terrible interference or cut off.  My guess would be someone operating a dodgy mobile repeater that is intermittently oscillating (like microphone feedback from a PA speaker).  As the LHG has a tight beam on the high frequency bands, I could aim it at a distant Eir mast operating on bands 1 and 3 to avoid the interference and had a stable fast connection throughout the day.

While setting up, I tried a few CA combinations with the Eir prepay SIM and found that the EP06-E does not appear to support Band 1+3 CA, at least not with Eir.  It would aggregate either band with band 28 fine.  With just bands 1 and 3 enabled, it connected on band 1 only.

1+3 CA not available on ep06-e on any network. Just 1+20 or 1+28 or 3+20 or 3+28