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22-07-2021 12:17 PM
Why does an ee antenna have two cables?
22-07-2021 12:36 PM
22-07-2021 03:04 PM
Hi, thanks for getting in touch. My antenna will be a 4G LTE and pictures I've seen suggest that this offers a pair of connection cables. If so, I'm curious to know why not just one?
22-07-2021 03:29 PM
Can you post a link to the pictures/antenna you're looking at?
"LTE" is the technical description for "4G", so I'm afraid this reference could be to almost any current antenna. I'm not sure if you're referring to, for example, an EE 4G-mobile router.
22-07-2021 04:03 PM - edited 22-07-2021 04:12 PM
The EE LTE Router Antennas have 2 Coax Feeders because there are 2 antennas inside the Housing, reason for this is for 2x2 Mimo.
Without getting too techy 2x2 Mimo will pick up and transmit two Signals on the same frequency from the Cell Site, although it's the same frequency the 2 Signals differ in there Data Transmission content as they are Transmitted out of Phase from each other, the benefits means Data Speed will almost double in this case whilst only using one Frequency Channel or Band so it's also Spectrum Effective.
Most LTE Routers now use 4x4 Mimo Internal Antennas within the Router itself, so you are effectively degrading the Routers Spec when using a 2x2 External Mimo Antenna in using one but it's a good compromise for Signal Strength increase in poor Signal Areas.
4 and 5G Networks currently use 4x4 Mimo, as 5G develops to the next stage it will use more than 4x4 or commonly known as Multi Mimo.