u/BagEnvironmental1348

So as a child I remember often a fuzzy FM radio station would improve quality if you just held the antenna with your hand. I am setting up a Zyxel M7460-M608 4g router with built in directional antenna. It is specced up to 600mb down and 50mb up and I am getting 2-10mb down and 2mb up so far. What is crazy as I can physically see the cell tower which cannot be more than 300 metres away, direct line of sight.

I can see the SNR varies between 2 and 4dB, except when I am holding the metal back of the casing, then it briefly goes as high as 10dB. I cant try a speed test at the moment while holding the antenna as I have to go up a ladder to hold it and the laptop is indoors.

I have zip tied it to a cast iron drain pipe, with a metal bracket so the casing does touch the drain pipe.

How can I replicate the improved signal response? Is the drain pipe reflecting interference into the antenna? Do I need to mount it away from the drain pipe or insulate it from the drain pipe?

My MDU became available for FTTP (my whole street have it, and they are all MDUs aswell) and two of us made an order through an ISP. then today I check and the ISP says openreach cancelled the order.

Only a few days ago, a few openreach guys in a van were looking at the building and planning the route for the cables (according to my neighbour who spoke with them).

I can see the current FTTC cable bundle goes up a wall, along a roof gulley between two buildings and down again so I imagine H&S would have a shit fit if the guys clambered over crumbly roof tiles to lay the fibre cable along the same route. But I find it hard to believe there are no other options.

Can openreach really just give up on a building? Any options?

I have ordered standard FTTP through my ISP Zen Internet, however I am in an MDU and I have not seen any physical installation happen yet.

I notice that if you order FTTP on Demand you can get access to a 1000mb down 220mb up profile, even though the hardware installed is I believe exactly the same as for standard FTTP: you are just bribing Openreach to do your house first.

I work in IT and would really like a higher upload but it seems the upload tops out around a claimed 110mb or so even if willing to pay for the top package with any ISP.

Any tricks I am missing? or is my only option to bite the bullet and pay for FTTPoD? or leased lines which appear to be symmetrical speeds.

I work in IT and have the need to occasionally upload a 9GB file over my home fttc broadband which has 12mbps upload speed. it takes several hours.

I have done a few speed tests with my phone and notice that the upload speed fluctuates between 10 and 35mbps, which would likely save me alot of time if I bought a 4g router. However for 4g/5g data sim plans I have only ever seen download limits or "unlimited" (which we all know is likely just a hidden limit before they cut you off)

Has anyone tried uploading large files over 4g regularly? 5g signal here very flakey so I would probably stick to 4g.

Hi All. I am soon to publish a freemium style app where the app is free to download, with a one off purchase required to enable some premium features. In the current codebase its just a premiumFeatures boolean that calls the google server once and caches the result locally forever.

This means creating a hacked version is fairly easy for a relatively experienced developer.

I could enable checking with google all the time but that requires an ongoing connection and risks genuine users getting locked out occasionally.

I am curious what solutions people are using to try and avoid this?