Hi all,
I have an EE branded 5G 2021 Zyxel router with an unlimited data 5G sim running in it. The router has an external 5G/4G Bluespot Antenna connected to it which is getting a good/Excellent signal from the 5G cell tower it is pointing at.
My issue is that overnight there seems to be activity on the 5G cells that mean I get kicked off a certain 5G cell on to another and sometimes dropped down to a 4G cell. I would expect the router to then scan constantly or very frequently for a better connection and then flip to that once available but that doesn't seem to happen. Every day I have to login and force the router to rescan for networks and then it picks up the 5G cell again. Is there anything I am doing wrong here that stopping the router being intelligent enough to do this itself?
I did look at getting a 5G only antenna so that it ignored 4G networks when the flip flop seems to happen overnight. The problem I think I will have is that the 5G only Bluespot antenna that I was looking at https://bluespotnet.co.uk/products/bluespot-mini does not work on the bands that I think I am receiving 5G over. My cell connection is using band B3+B3 on most cases. Would this antenna not see these bands?
Other concerns I had was whether the sim I am using has something to do with the aggression it has around looking for better networks. The sales guy from EE told me that using a 5G sim designed for a phone (not a data sim) would act the same as a Data Sim. I did ask why there's a price difference and was given an answer that I didn't "buy" but went along with it. Some clarification about this would be really helpful and whether this could be something to do with my issue?
The other idea I have had: is there an API you can script commands to my EE router to remotely send a reset command? Any other ideas helpful?
In general I am very happy with the connection and reliability during the day, but having to do this daily task every morning is pretty frustrating.
