Internet and television to the country. Wi-Fi internet in a private house. Choosing a router, and which Internet to connect. If you still have questions about which internet to buy in a private house

Recently, wireless Internet has become more and more popular both in our country and abroad. This is due to special technologies that allow you to get the Internet in private house without a phone.

Why is the technology of connecting to the Internet without a cable so convenient?

In the private sector, laying a cable from an access point directly to the house is quite an expensive pleasure, and the speed with such a connection is low. If the wire is damaged in any of its sections, repairs take weeks, or even months. Therefore, new technologies in the field of connecting to the network via satellite or using USB modems are an excellent solution to all the above problems. In addition, wireless Internet in a private home allows owners to access the network simultaneously from different devices: smartphones, tablets, laptops.

Wireless Internet

Connecting to the World Wide Web without using telephone lines has become not only popular, but also very convenient for a modern person. An increasing number of users are abandoning the offer of "wired Internet to a private home", preferring wireless. Is the latter really that good? To answer the question posed, one should analyze the positive and negative aspects.

Pros and cons of wireless internet

Benefits include:

Negative sides

If you decide to connect the Internet to a private house without a telephone, then check out the disadvantages. They are as follows:

A large number of devices can connect to the Internet using a single access point. At the same time, the traffic speed is divided equally for all devices. This increases the loading time of web pages for each user individually.
Physical objects that are on the way to the device can also degrade the speed of information transfer.
Point wi-Fi accesswhich has low reliability can be easily hacked.

When choosing a connection method, it is important to clearly understand how many devices you plan to regularly use to access the network. It is recommended to establish the Internet in a private house without a telephone with a small number of connections. When you plan to use a maximum of three to four devices to log on to the network. But wired Internet to a private house is best used for an extensive network.

Types of wireless internet

Internet in a private house without a telephone can be installed using the following devices and components:

Internet price in a private house

So, you have chosen wireless internet in a private home. The price will definitely not shock you. But it all depends on the type this internet, the company and the costs incurred when connecting. On average, you can connect to the wireless Internet for 4000-5000 rubles (taking into account necessary equipment). As for tariffs, setting from 0.5 to tens of megabits, you will need to pay an additional 300 to 2500 rubles. Operators have different internet prices. Before deciding to connect to the Internet, you should consult with the employees of companies that provide wireless access to the World Wide Web. Any self-respecting company will give reliable information about the price and advise on all issues.

A modern country cottage cannot be imagined without an Internet connection. Like. recently, even summer residents of the Moscow region did not think about how to use the Internet at their dachas, and now one can get confused in the abundance of technological proposals: fiber optics, satellites, mobile connections ... Which Internet is better for dacha, how to choose the best option so that it "suffices" for everyone how to carry it out, we talk about it in our material.

In this article, you will learn:

What kind of Internet connection is the most convenient?
How to conduct the Internet in the country?
What to look for when choosing a USB modem?
How to amplify a wireless signal and get fast internet in the country?
What is double-sided satellite Internet?

The modern Internet technology market offers the user many different ways to connect to the Internet. However, not all of them are applicable in summer cottages: or rather, the options differ greatly in price and a set of advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes it may turn out that an expensive and promising solution is far from the most reliable one. This is influenced by various factors: distance from the city, availability nearby base stations, landscape features (for example, in a lowland or near a forest mobile Internet catching worse) and even the season - in summer the foliage on the trees creates additional "noise" for the wireless signal. Therefore, when choosing a connection, you will have to take into account the maximum parameters. One thing pleases: you can almost always find a suitable option. And it will not be difficult to mount it with your own hands.

Optical fiber

Perhaps the most reliable connection method is optical fiber. The signal passes through it literally at the speed of light. This is the main advantage of fiber optic cable: it allows you to transfer large amounts of information over long distances without delay. The cable is reliably protected from interference, it is not affected by electromagnetic radiation, which allows it to be mounted, for example, together with high-voltage wires.

The main disadvantage of this technology is that it is far from always found outside the city. Provider companies prefer, first of all, densely populated areas. The further the cable runs, the more expensive the connection is. Its for countryside can go up to 20-30 thousand rubles just for carrying out. But sometimes even this does not stop summer residents from connecting to fiber. Here is what our reader wrote about the advantages of optical fiber BigK.

BigK FORUMHOUSE Member

Connection cost - 15 thousand rubles, "subscriber" - 1000 per month. I thought it over and do not regret it at all. I remember the ordeals in the summer, the lack of a normal signal, equipment breakdown at the nearest tower ... Everything is forgotten, as in a nightmare ... twisted pair... The main disadvantage is a gray IP-shnik, I had to do port forwarding and configure a little.

Almost no fiber required additional equipment: Suspended cables are routed through the air or pulled underground. In the house, it can be connected directly to the computer. If desired, you can separate the line using a twisted pair cable to different rooms. Another option is to make one or more Wi-Fi access points at home. The main thing here is to design in advance where and how the channels for laying optical fiber will be located.

FORUMHOUSE user with nickname _JG_, engaged in the design and construction of communication lines, advises:

Polyethylene pipes (thick-walled from recycled materials, at least 63 in diameter) are laid in, one end of which is in the basement of the house, and the other is brought out with a bend of the pipe to the nearest lighting pole / support with a minimum output of 1.5 meters. Or the 2nd end is brought into the well of the village cable duct. When building houses, this pipe should be laid during the backfill phase. In practice, they start thinking about it late, when a lot has already been done.

Instead of "fiber", the cable can also contain copper - an example is the popular transmission technology aDSL datain which the modem is connected to the telephone line. The data transfer rate over the ADSL channel is lower than that over the "optics", and the longer the cable stretches, the lower it becomes. Various factors can affect the quality of communication - from a thunderstorm (if the cable is pulled through the air) to the presence of power lines nearby (if in the ground). All of this creates interference and can damage equipment. By and large, ADSL technology is already living its day and is gradually becoming a thing of the past, giving way to more reliable and efficient solutions.

3G and 4G

Today, wireless mobile connection is perhaps the most popular way among summer residents to provide a country house with a stable and fast Internet. Its definite plus is price and territorial availability. Even a weak signal of the cellular network, if desired, can be amplified to an acceptable level, and it will cost several thousand rubles (subject to the purchase of standard, average equipment, otherwise the price soars to a couple of tens of thousands). The downside is also obvious: this is network instability and frequent signal loss - it is greatly weakened or even blocked by various obstacles in the way: power lines, tall buildings and even trees with foliage. Also, the signal level decreases when the base station is overloaded. By the way, some members of our portal complained about this: in the summer or on weekends, when the number of summer residents in rural areas increased sharply, their data transmission speed dropped for a long time, right up to a network break.

But apart from fiber, 3G and 4G connectivity is a great way to get unlimited tariff to fast internet outside the city. Depending on the proposed speed, its cost can reach up to one and a half thousand rubles a month, but 400-800 rubles are enough for normal operation. "Unlimited" is offered by all major operators cellular communication - Beeline, MTS, Tele2, Skylink (all have 3G), as well as Megafon, Yota (4G) and others.

The maximum data reception speed with 3G reaches 14.7 Mbit / s, and with 4G - up to 326.4 Mbit / s (although in reality it is usually still several times less).

What is required to install a complete Internet kit? It is worth starting the installation with "reconnaissance" of the area. Make sure your settlement is within the coverage area of \u200b\u200ba 3G or 4G signal. This can be done on the website of the provider itself or specified at the point of sale. If everything went well, then the next step is to buy a USB modem through which you will connect to the network.

Usually, the providers themselves offer modems along with a SIM-card and special "mobile" tariffs for the Internet, and such devices are configured only for SIM-cards of "their" operator. But if you wish, you can easily "unlock" and reflash them, making the devices universal. There are enough sites on the Internet that offer the necessary activation codes and programs. If you do not want to do this, you can buy a modem separately in a specialized store or order, again, in an online store. There are a large number of modems - some of them only work with 2G and 3G networks, others also capture 4G. The leader in the production of USB modems, first of all, for 4G (specifically, its variety, the LTE standard) is the Korean company Huawei.

As known, mobile networks third and fourth generations transmit a signal in several frequency bands. For 3G it is 900, 2100 or 1800 MHz, and for 4G - 2600-2700 or 800 MHz. Therefore, when buying a modem, pay attention to what frequencies it works with.

Otherwise, you may repeat the situation that one of the FORUMHOUSE readers encountered some time ago, who spent the Internet at a dacha in the Moscow region.

Internet to the dacha in the Moscow region

Andrey -AA

GSM operators in the Moscow region and new Moscow in some places have a ban from the Ministry of Defense on the use of frequencies of 2100 MHz, and this is the main frequency for a 3G signal. There are such restrictions almost all over the new Moscow, and even much wider, in the Moscow region ... 3G standards are different, and modems are sold for dummies and are simply called "3G modem", without specifying the standard and frequency. What I first ran into when I bought a Huawei E303 modem from the bulldozer. And it works only at frequencies of 2100, which I turned out to be prohibited.

Ideally, when you spend the Internet for a summer residence in the Moscow region, and in other regions, you should buy several different SIM cards and, having connected the modem to your laptop, travel with them around your village. So you will understand which of the operators picks up the signal better, and which base stations are closest to you. If you wish, you can install the MDMA (Mobile Data Monitoring Application) network analyzer program on your laptop - in the latest versions it also scans the 4G signal. For a smartphone (they have a built-in 3G modem), a similar program NetMonitor or OpenSignal is suitable.

As a result, this "intelligence" will give you an understanding of several important things. First of all, this is the location of the base stations mobile operators, frequency (MHz) and their signal power (measured in decibels). Without this information, you are unlikely to be able to install an antenna normally to strengthen the network signal. Sometimes a regular USB modem provides good reception by itself. But this happens only when you are in close proximity to the base station, and nothing interferes with the signal flow. In other cases, you cannot do without "fine-tuning" the modem.

Internet in the country with your own hands: tohow to amplify the signal

To increase the signal strength, you need a standard set of equipment. The equipment for the Internet at the dacha is the same for both 3G and 4G: this is a modem for receiving a signal, a Wi-Fi router for its free wireless distribution inside the house, an antenna (as in the case of a modem, be sure to specify when buying which frequency it is calculated), power supply unit or POE adapter and cables for connection and data transmission; adapters. It would seem a simple scheme, but all this electronics can be mounted in different ways.

For example, a modem with a router (or a router separately) can be installed in the house or in the attic, regardless of the antenna. This allows you to protect them from temperature extremes, and so it is more convenient to organize power from the outlet. But with the antenna, both the modem and the router in this case will be connected with a coaxial cable. And it has length restrictions - no more than 12 meters (when using a thick 8D-FB cable), otherwise the signal will fade and the Internet speed will drop. With a thinner cable, the signal loss is even more noticeable, and a thick cable is not very convenient to mount.

Readers of our portal consider the option more reliable when all equipment is mounted directly on the antenna, in a small box. Both the modem and the Wi-Fi router are connected to the antenna pigtails - small. This scheme was followed by our reader Vipych when installing the antenna for the 4G (LTE) signal.

Vipych

Most the best way - when there is no coaxial cable at all (only pigtails in the antenna), and the modem itself is installed in the antenna body in a thermal casing and connected with pigtails to printed circuit board vibrator. There are two pigtails, since the LTE antenna works in the MIMO standard and has two carrier signals in different polarizations, which gives excellent propagation of the radio signal. This option eliminates cable loss and provides maximum gain. An ordinary USB wire of 7-10 meters or even a UTP cable of 30-100 meters comes out of the antenna (the antenna must also have a router), and all this is powered by the most common POE adapter.

At his dacha, the user Vipych installed and successfully uses the HITE U-20 antenna with a universal modem Huawei E3372 and ASUS RT-N10U router. This system works with a SIM card of any cellular operator in 4G and 3G networks at 2100 MHz frequencies. Moreover, in LTE networks, the modem is able to simultaneously connect to three base stations of the operator.

Vipych

This antenna with a real gain of 20 dB provides a stable connection with the tower at a distance of 11 km above the solid forest. And the nearest tower (2-3 km from me) is overloaded and located on the opposite side.

FORUMHOUSE member under the nickname Semen233 offers its own version of the amplifying antenna:

Semen233

The most powerful method of amplification is a satellite dish, and an antenna as a converter, you can assemble everything yourself. As an antenna feed, make an ordinary biquadrat, a 75 Ohm cable, an adapter and a modem with a connector. It is possible without a connector, but you will need to make a special adapter (roughly speaking, wrap the modem with each end of the cable). I have been using it myself for 5 years already. To the tower with the Internet, more than 25 km, I did not catch 3G without an antenna, it catches all the sticks with it.

With the help of various amplification schemes, you can get a decent Internet signal at a distance from the base station up to 15-25 km.

If inside the house of "strength" one wi-Fi router not enough, you can organize several Internet access points in the cottage. The scheme is the same - an additional router, a wire.

The higher you raise the antenna, the less "noise" in the signal transmission, and therefore the better the reception. It is important to point the antenna towards the base station as accurately as possible. By rotating it, it is necessary to “catch” the direction with the best RSSI (received signal power level).
It makes no sense to buy an antenna with a very high gain - 11-18 dB is quite enough.
Having caught the optimal direction and frequency of the network, remember it and set it as a priority in the modem settings (if allowed). Otherwise, then it will start "jumping" the frequencies in search of a signal.
If you do use a coaxial cable to connect your equipment, keep it as short as possible.

By the way, if you have no desire to fiddle with antenna amplifiers, and the Wi-Fi signal from the router in some areas of the house is too weak, some experts advise to put additional routers there in the "repeater" mode. Reflecting the main signal, they amplify it and transmit it further to the addressee (in the manner of electrical substations). But this solution has disadvantages: routers configured to different modes, can conflict with each other, and signal transmission "back and forth" slows it down, interferes with working quickly. Repeaters for 4G are not recommended at all because of their high power, which can damage even the base station.

We do not consider wireless Internet of the “Wi-Fi-bridge” type, as well as a 4G signal of the WiMAX standard and other types of cellular connections that have not yet received sufficient distribution.

Satellite Internet for summer cottages

This connection option is suitable even for those who are located in an area inaccessible to the frequencies of cellular operators. Satellite signals cover a large (and some of the whole) territory of the country. The main condition is that there are no obstacles in the path of the signal from the antenna, such as the roof of a house or the tops of trees.

There are two types of satellite Internet - one-way and two-way. The first one is cheaper, but slower and more unreliable. Its era, which did not last long, ends, as does the era of ADSL connections. The second option is more modern, but also more expensive: the cost of the kit together with the installation reaches 30-35 thousand rubles. If you wish, you can try to assemble the kit yourself - the main thing is not to be mistaken with the choice of devices. Tariffs in both cases are limited, upon reaching the limit value, their speed either drops sharply, or you have to pay extra for additional gigabytes. In principle, unlimited VIP tariffs from providers two-way internet exist, but their price is exorbitant - from 8 thousand rubles a month. The set of equipment for both types is similar - a transceiver, an antenna, a modem and a converter for converting a satellite signal, cables, connectors. A Wi-Fi router is also useful for wiring the Internet around the house.

What is the difference between the two types of satellite connection

One-way Internet was actively offered by satellite TV operators several years ago. But their idea did not receive large-scale development. In this type of connection, the signal from the satellite goes only towards the subscriber. This is logical, since the bulk of home Internet traffic is always incoming data (video, pictures, sound). The outgoing signal (what is not downloaded but sent to the network) is several times less. Therefore, it was supposed to be launched through a simpler and cheaper channel: wired or mobile. This is the main disadvantage of the one-way Internet. Due to the complexity of signal transcoding and the instability of cellular communication, the speed and quality of the signal left much to be desired. Such a network is sensitive to weather changes and electromagnetic radiation.

Two-way Internet is intended to eliminate these shortcomings - the satellite signal goes both ways. True, this leads to its disadvantages. The so-called ping, or the time it takes for a signal to "leave and return", lasts longer here than in conventional networks: about 8-9 milliseconds. because of high ping the subscriber may have problems in situations that require signal continuity (video conversation via Skype or network online game). This type of satellite Internet is less sensitive to atmospheric interference than its one-way "counterpart", but thunderstorms and sticky snow will still degrade the transmission quality. The rate depends on the speed (on average, 6-8 Mb / s) and the volume of monthly traffic, but it is in the range of 1.2-5 thousand rubles. Two-way satellite Internet at the dacha is preferable in areas with a weak satellite signal.

To summarize: if you have the opportunity, then it is worth connecting fiber to the house. If this type of communication is not yet available for your region, you can connect wireless 3G or 4G Internet with an amplifier. In the same areas where cellular signal too weak (or if you have extra money), two-way satellite Internet is perfect.

Good connection to you!

On FORUMHOUSE, users discuss how. Watch a video on the experience of creating an urban environment for information and data exchange. And if you decide to set up a homepage yourself, check out the tips from those who have already done it.

If earlier a trip to the country house was a real test for many and was associated more with difficulty than with rest, but recently this happens less and less. In summer cottages, vegetables and fruits are not often grown, greenhouses or vegetable gardens are looked after - now people come here to relax with family or friends, go to barbecues and even spend the whole summer with pleasure.

Therefore, it is understandable that many are increasingly thinking about how to conduct the Internet to the country. This is convenient if you spend a lot of time outside the city: you can quickly receive all the latest news, keep abreast of work affairs, and contact friends. Wireless Internet at the dacha is also convenient if you often gather there with friends: you can always turn on good music or watch a movie with the whole company in the evening.

Tariffs and prices

The Internet company "AERGO" has developed favorable tariff plans.

Promotion until!

The cost of a turnkey connection (departure, work, equipment) for your PRIVATE home will be:

9,700 rubles: WHEN THE SIGNAL LEVEL IS UNCERTAINABLE, an external wide-beam antenna is used
14,700 rubles: IN THE ABSENCE OF A SIGNAL, a powerful external narrow-beam antenna is used, provides stable communication in the most difficult reception conditions

Before connecting, our masters perform a speed demonstration using the speedtest.net sites!

You rarely use the Internet, for example, to check email, infrequent Internet access, tariff plans of the AirFix series are suitable for you.
If your need for the Internet is growing exponentially, you are not interested in any restrictions, choose the tariffs of the AirMax series, or AirActive - where AirMax is not available!

Online application for connection

How to choose the Internet for the dacha?

If you need internet to your dacha, the Moscow Region will offer you many options: quite a few providers work here. On the one hand, it is convenient - there is plenty to choose from. On the other hand, it is difficult: how to understand which provider you need? If you are looking for high-quality internet for your summer cottage, reviews may help you - but they alone will not be enough.

But, regardless of whether you spend a couple of weeks outside the city in the summer or live almost all year round, you probably need at least a stable, fast and cheap internet for giving. And we are ready to offer you it!

"AirGo" is the best internet for a summer residence in the Moscow region and the Leningrad region

Our company offers all residents of the Moscow Region and the Leningrad Region unlimited and at affordable rates. By contacting us, you get:

high speed internet (up to 60 Mbps);
prompt connection using a unique technology;
wide coverage map;
stable connection;
affordable prices and the ability to choose one of several tariffs;
the ability to turn off the Internet for those months when it is not used.

Sounds convenient, doesn't it? And indeed it is.

Learn more about the benefits

AirGo has its own network of base stations, which are located throughout the entire Moscow region. This technology guarantees a stable signal supply, which is necessary for the smooth and fast operation of the Internet: depending on the tariff plan, its speed can reach from 3 to 20 Mbps. At the same time, you do not get the usual wired Internet to the dacha, but wireless, which can be used on an unlimited number of gadgets!

This technology is not only easy to use: it also allows. Therefore, Internet connection at the dacha is possible even if it is located quite far from Moscow and the nearest cities!

The cost of connecting our Internet is one of the most affordable in the Moscow region and the Leningrad region! In addition, we have several tariff plansdiffering in speed. You can always choose the one that is most convenient for you and suits the price!

Of course, not everyone spends in the country all year round, and therefore the ability not to pay for those months when the Internet is not used is very important. We understand this and allow you to easily suspend Internet use for a month or more. In this case, you do not need to reconnect it later.

Connection includes:

Departure of our specialists to perform all the necessary work;
Reliable equipment from leading manufacturers;
Subsequent configuration of equipment: computer, connections;
Answers to all your questions regarding the technical side of the connection.

AirGo is always ready to provide you with a reliable Internet that will perfectly catch on your site, will not be lost due to bad weather and will constantly delight you with high speed. If you want to pay only for high-quality, uninterrupted and fast communication - contact us!

What to do if you fled from stuffy Moscow to your dacha or even decided to settle in country house, and there is not a single Internet provider in your village?

Inhabitants of large or cottage settlements are more fortunate in this regard. There, as a rule, one of the local providers broadband in the Internet (broadband access) in advance and "threw" a cable in the village. But residents of many villages near Moscow found themselves in almost the worst situation in all of Russia in terms of Internet coverage.

By the way, in theory everything is very beautiful. Back in 2014, Rostelecom announced an ambitious program to eliminate the digital divide in Russia. The program is designed for 10 years and it was planned that the company could receive about 163 billion rubles from the state for its implementation. That is, everything seems to be serious. As part of this program, the company undertook to establish backbone Internet channels with an access speed of at least 10 Mbps to all settlements with a population of 250 to 500. The quality of the program is a separate issue, probably some Russian villages and villages were lucky and they really had fast optics stretched out to them.

But it is in the Moscow region with the provision of small settlements broadband internet things are not at all very good. And that's why. In many villages of the nearest Moscow region, conditionally, before the Moscow Small Ring, houses have long been redeemed for summer cottages or just new cottages have been built near the villages. At the same time, few of the owners of these houses are officially registered in them. As a result, formally, the number of inhabitants of such villages is all last years gradually decreased. For example, 170 people officially live in my native village of Nagornoye, despite the fact that there are already more than 300 houses in it. Unfortunately, small regional Internet providers are in no hurry to pull cable to such places, due to their unbearable capital costs and relatively small potential margin.

In such cases, the Big Four comes to the rescue, that is, domestic cellular operators... Modern technologies mobile communication, including LTE-Advanced already launched in Russia, provide very fast speed mobile broadband access. For example, LTE Cat.6 delivers speeds up to 300 Mbps. Of course in real life so far, one cannot count on such speeds, but it is quite possible to get 20 Mbps on an unlimited channel.

What do you need to have fast and stable mobile Internet in your home?

First you need to decide which operator works best in your village. The easiest way is to talk to your neighbors. But if you are an introvert, social phobia, or just don’t trust anyone, then you can buy SIM cards from three mobile operators (it is assumed that you have one SIM card by default) and check the quality of cellular coverage using applications like Network Info II, Network Cell Info , GSM Signal Monitoring, etc.They allow you to independently collect complete statistics on the quality and power of signals from the base stations of each of the operators and even determine the location of cell towers.

What parameters are worth paying attention to.Primarily on RSSI. The indicator above -70dBm can already be considered good. Please note that in applications it is indicated in negative values.

For LTE, and we are interested in just such networks, there is also such an indicator as SINR Signal to Interference + Noise Ratio, the ratio of the (useful) signal to noise. The SINR value is also measured in dBm.0 dBm means that the signal and noise are equal, a positive number means that the signal is stronger than the noise, negative means that it is weaker. Accordingly, the higher the score, the better. A good level is between 13 and 20. Over 20 is excellent.

When you decide on the operator, you should proceed to the selection of equipment and its configuration.

The most affordable option is a USB-LTE modem / Wi-Fi hotspot. If you have a very good signal from a cell tower and there are no special requests for organizing a local network, then this option is ok.

If you want to organize a local network with a NAS at home, where media content will be stored, then you need a USB modem with lTE support and Wi-Fi router.

And the last option, alas, is the most common. Your signal is so-so, and the network periodically disappears, for example, in adverse weather conditions. In this case, you will need two modems (primary and backup), a router that supports two modems, and a MIMO antenna (or even two, for each modem) to amplify the signal.

Let's consider in detail all three options.

In the first case, you don't need to invent anything, especially if you bought an operator's modem. In it, as a rule, everything is already configured. Plug into any USB port and use it.

If you use a bundle - a router, a modem and a NAS, there are not very many settings either. Setting up a router (via the web interface) to work with a modem is quite simple and requires only the selection of a modem as a device for accessing the Internet. Of course, each router and NAS has a lot of settings for administering a local network, accessing media content, operating the built-in media server, torrent client, etc., but we will not consider them in this article. It doesn't matter for setting up mobile Internet access.

Well, the third is the most difficult option. I will describe it on a specific case, and accordingly, with certain equipment that was used in this case.

Choice of equipment.

MIMO antenna - a Chinese-Russian NoName product was selected and purchased. Whether there is something Russian in it other than the nameplate is not clear. It is better to make a purchase in a more or less decent offline or online store (so that you can change in case of marriage). When choosing antenna adapters (you need 2 of them), tell the seller or store consultant the model of your modem so as not to be mistaken with the type of connector. Another important detail: antenna adapters are often made of low quality silumin, respectively, they are enough to connect the antenna to the modem only once. When reconnecting, the adapter tabs often break. So buy a few extra ones along with the antenna, they cost a penny, but they will save you from wasting time. They are not sold everywhere and you will have to go to Moscow for new ones.

LTE modem - Huawei E3372. Was chosen because of the brand's popularity and positive reviews from friends and acquaintances. Of course, other telecom equipment manufacturers also have excellent models. In addition to supporting LTE-Advanced (suddenly LTE Cat.6 will work for you in a year), when buying a modem, you should pay attention to the mandatory presence of antenna connectors.

Router. I chose Zyxel Keenetic Ultra 2 primarily because it works well with two USB modems. Again, this is not the only model from Zyxel with this option, and Zyxel is not the only manufacturer making "dual mode" wifi routers.

Now let's move on to setting up the equipment.

Where and how to position the antenna? The higher the better. On a wall, a lighting pole, a thick, but low tree, etc. If the house is wooden or frame, then you can put the antenna even inside the house.

How to orient it? The web interface of the modem, and in some cases of the router, displays the RSSI and SINR we need. Accordingly, the antenna must be oriented vertically and horizontally so that these indicators are maximum.

So, you hung up and connected an antenna or even two antennas to a modem or modems, correctly oriented them in space. Next, you need to configure their work.

In this concept of connection, it is assumed that one modem is the main one, the second is backup in case the network of the "main" operator falls.

In this case, by going to the web interface of the router, you should configure the "priority" of the modems. Priority is a numerical value that is assigned to each modem. The number itself can be any, the main thing is that the main device has it higher than the backup one. The router uses a higher priority modem by default.

Then you should configure a parameter such as Ping check. Ping check is a check that determines the health of the Internet connection by the availability of a given host. I set the IP address to 8.8.8.8 (Google Public DNS) as the host. The test result can be used to reboot the LTE modem connected to the USB port and switch between the primary and backup modems. In the Ping checker parameters, the frequency of the check is configured (I set 20 seconds) and the response threshold (switching to the backup modem). If you have selected the threshold of 10, then after the modem fails to connect to the specified Internet node 10 times in a row, it will automatically switch to the backup modem.

Thus, as a result of all these manipulations, I received two mobile communication channels - the main and the backup. In this case, the router itself determines the presence of problems in the main channel and switches to the backup one. In case of restoration of the main channel, an automatic return to the main one occurs.

Tariff or tariff option for backup channel it is better to choose not unlimited, but package. Bundled tariffs work at the highest possible speed without having to pay high subscription fee for a fast unlimited tariff.