I recently bought the TP-Link NE200, one of the few outdoor 5G modems on the market. As I couldn't find any unboxing videos, and the product descriptions didn't specify what was included, I decided to make my first unboxing and installation video. It's quite amateurish, but maybe someone will find it useful.

vhsky.cz/w/4Eez7pDKxWsr8KPWtSj…

#tplink #5G #unboxing #video

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in reply to Miroslav Buček 🌳

@miroslavbucek Yes, it's a Chinese device connected to the Internet, but so was the previous Huawei modem. Not happy about it, but by the time my data gets to the modem, it's all encrypted.

Which 5G modem can be placed indoors and can be connected to an external antenna via an ethernet cable? The other two I'm aware of are Mikrotik ATL 5G R16, which is sadly much slower than NE200, and Zyxel FWA-710, which is sadly almost twice as expensive.

Note that although it's called router, I use it only as an antenna/modem. It's connected to Unifi Dream Machine, so isolated from the home network by NAT and UDM does all the heavy lifting.

in reply to Miroslav Buček 🌳

@miroslavbucek Ubiquiti U-LTE-Pro is sadly only LTE. I'm paying for 1 Gbps and get real speeds 550-650 Mbps. There are many LTE modems to choose from, but I don't want a device that can only run at 1/6 of the speed I'm paying for. At the moment there are very few 5G modems. Like 3-4 you can use outdoors.

I'm not much concerned about getting disconnected remotely. I have a fallback WAN connected to UDM (with a much lower speed, but useable) and 3 phones to use if necessary.

But yeah, as I said I'm not super happy about buying a Chinese device and I'm willing to pay 20-30% extra for non-Chinese, but if the only comparable non-Chinese option is 100% extra, it's too much even for me.

in reply to Jiří Eischmann

But in the end, it’s always cheaper to vote with your wallet than later with weapons. Why are Chinese devices so cheap? Because they don’t care about the environment or people - and the strategic ones are even subsidized by a totalitarian regime.

A great manufacturer is the Lithuanian company Teltonika:
teltonika-networks.com/product…

Their devices have inputs for external antennas.

in reply to Jiří Eischmann

Jirko díky za video. Jen za sebe důležitý 💡 tip na příště - dělat z videa natočeného na výšku video na šířku je na mobilu nekoukatelné. Na desktopu se to dá přežít.

Vůbec s tím nemám zkušenosti jako tvůrce, ale jako uživatel prostě když jsou videa na výšku, tak je to na mobilu naprosto v pohodě, dám maximalizovat a vidím je na výšku. Jenže u toho tvého dám maximalizovat a nevidím stejně "nic".

Většina lidí to asi přežije, ale třeba se náhodou najde ještě jeden další jako já, který se prostě na malý video koukat nedokáže a radši to vypne.

in reply to Kepi

@kepi ahoj, jsem si toho vědom. Celé jsem to chtěl dělat na šířku, ostatní části videa tak jsou, ale půjčoval jsem si držák na mobil od @RezzaBuh a na poslední chvíli zjistil, že v něm může být mobil jen na výšku. Tak jsem to holt natočil s tímto kompromisem. Za úkol jsem si dal pořídit si držák, kde ten mobil bude moct být na šířku.