Vacation: Upgrade Your 4G & 5G Router Speed ​​Now!

This is a recurring issue. We are going on vacation, but we also don’t want to leave series and films at home. So, we are loaded with a beautiful box or a computer and a mobile router. The problem is that when we get to the place of our dreams, everything turns into a nightmare. This is because in the end we realize that we can not get anything because of the poor speed of the Internet. So, we are going to explain to you a very useful tip to improve the speed of your 4G and 5G router.

Vacation: Improve Your 4G & 5G Router Speed ​​Now!

We all know that antennas, or rather transmitting stations serving seaside resorts, are overloaded in summer. It’s actually a real mess. However, sometimes we have several antennas near us, and simply changing the router can work wonders. Especially if we manage to connect to a freer station.

For example, in the region of Costa da Caparica where we did one of the tests, we have access to two antennas. One is 400 meters and the other 2 km. An antenna that is at a distance of 400 meters is much more overloaded than one that is a little further.

However, when changing location, the router for some reason connects to another antenna that is further away. In fact, the antenna is at a distance of 2.2 km.

One would expect that the further, the lower the speed. Even because if we notice that the signal strength is weaker. However, the exact opposite is happening. This is because this transmitting station is less congested and therefore higher access rates can be achieved.

In fact, the differences can be very significant, and we can go from the chaotic scenario shown in the image below.

For something completely different!

It’s actually something amazing.

It’s just that we might think that the fact that we are farther away will always give us slower speed. However, the reality is quite different.

However, we found just the opposite. More speed!

Thus, it is worth spending a few minutes trying to find the best place to place our router. In my case, I’m using a FritzBox model that shows this data with a link to Antena. However, others do not.

We then have to rely on SpeedTest to check the positions that give the best performance in terms of speed. You can access here do checks.