Okay, this is the second part of the post I've left today. Just read the two replies I've left and you will have most of the idea.
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And that brings me to the idea I just wrote I would divulge. I've used the Abracons to vastly improve the Wi-Fi signal produced by my Mom's pair of Asus XT8 routers/repeaters. There is a teardown video for this model somewhere on Youtube, but I'm not going to stop what I'm doing to hunt it down for a link. I watched this video and discovered that the internal antennas on this routers/repeaters are on the right side of the unit, near the top, as you are facing the unit, with the main service indicator light facing you. Next week I will snap a picture of this. We had to get a Cox signal across a 2000 sq ft house and nothing else we tried worked. This only required 30 Abracons per repeater. The TV on the other side of the house was unusable before we did this. Now it might as well be plugged directly into the modem.
Someone or something took down some of my comments on the Tailosive Tech video. Fortunately, I have a copy of those comments and I will add them at the bottom of this post.
Unless you want to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a backbone provider to lay fiber out to your rural/off-grid home/homestead/doomsday bunker so you can have a $2500-a-month, 45Mbps T3 connection, or deal with "Space Internet," you had better think of SOMETHING.
I'm not dumping my Abracons off onto the side table so I can flip the device over to show you the Lairds. You should be able to infer their arrangement and placement from the thin cables reaching out from each side. Remember, they are staggered to reduce "signal bald spots" as much as possible.
Oh, and one more thing: before you commit everything to the glue, make sure you have some way to add the thermoplastic heat sinks to the cellular device, whether rectangular or square. I don't glue the heat sinks directly to the device.
If you have the ability to offer employment, please PM me. I am looking for a part-time job that pays $1250 a month. I have an arrangement with the government I don't want to upset. I got into Mensa, I have a B.A. from a Top 40 university, and I held, at one point, A+ and Network+ certifications, and intend to get the latest and more. Something I can do from home. Once my income is secure, I can spend more of my free time coming up with ideas to help the community. I'm holding some ideas back. Thank you for your time.
BELOW IS THE FULL TEXT OF THE COMMENTS I POSTED ON TAILOSIVE TECH'S "WiFi Rant" VIDEO COMMENT SECTION:
Hi, Tailosive. I think I have an idea that would increase the stability of your internet connection. Generally speaking, especially for those who tend to believe the advertising of the cell signal booster industry, people believe that antennas have to be directly connected to antenna ports on a device to improve cell signal. The cell signal booster industry often claims that cellular antenna stickers for your phone don't work because they don't actually "touch" the internal antennas in your phone. But this is not the case. Two antennas placed near each other, but not touching, will resonate in sympathy. This connection is called an "induction antenna," or a "parasitic coupling." Before you spend hundreds more dollars trying to solve your problem with a change in service and new equipment, please try my idea for maybe $150. I'm going to post this portion of the comment now to avoid going over the character limit, but I will continue in the replies with my ideas for antennas and heatsinks.
For the antennas, I suggest a particular model of patch antenna produced by Laird Antennas. I have not tried the cell signal sticker antennas sold for anywhere from $1 to $3 on Amazon. I went with an established, very-well-thought-of antenna company that anyone in the industry would recognize as one of the best. If you want to try this idea, buy 16 to 20 of the same antennas and attach them to your T-Mobile gateway as close to the internal antennas as possible. For the older model gateway, I believe, these were somewhere near the middle of the unit, top-to-bottom. Maybe there is a "teardown" YouTube video for the current model that will give you a better look at its innards. Put them on all four sides. If the antennas are closer to two sides, still put them all around the device. The antennas will resonate in sympathy with each other. This will improve your signal. You won't have to flounder in the broadband market anymore. T-Mobile will be good enough.
Your device might be working too hard without the antennas. The weaker and less stable the signal is, the more error correction the modem processor has to perform to piece together complete data transmissions. This causes your device to generate more heat. The more it heats up, the glitchier it gets. Even with antennas, you're better off if you do everything you can to bring the internal temperature of your gateway down. You should glue 20 or 30 thermoplastic heatsinks to your gateway, on top and down the sides. I will explain how these heatsinks are different than aluminum heatsinks in the next "reply."
Thermoplastic heatsinks work like aluminum heatsinks, but they do not block microwave radiation, nor any RF signal in general, for that matter. They are about 95% as effective as aluminum heatsinks at equalizing the internal temperature of a device with room temperature.
I use the Laird antennas on my Visible S21 and a Calyx Institute M2000. Calyx Institute is actually a non-profit provider of T-Mobile service. There is a lot of history to this arrangement if you want to research it. By adding the antennas to the two devices and bonding them into a single connection, my internet went from megalame to consistently reliable 2160p60 HDR-providing service. Look up both of these services and you will see that both are de-prioritized across the board and some of the cheapest options for all-you-can-eat cellular data on the market. The effect on T-Mobile's high-priority home internet should be remarkable.
I bought one ten-pack of the thermoplastic heatsinks available on Amazon. I just dropped 6 on the M2000 and 4 on the S21 (with a plastic peel-and-stick screen protector). My internet never overheats and I can watch TV all day.
In the final replies I leave to my own comment, I will provide links to the antenna and heatsink product pages. The antenna product page will have a list of properties and characteristics, including the dimensions of the antennas. This will aid you in deciding how many will fit on your device. I left the cables on the antenna, thinking the super-thin cables probably actually pick up some signal. If they do, the current has to travel through the actual antenna, where it is modified into improved signal. You can remove the cables if you want.
I don't have an answer to the question, "If that works so well, why don't the device designers include all those features?" The early bird gets the worm.
https://www.amazon.com/10Pcs-8-8x8-8x5mm-Plastic-Thermal-Cooling/dp/B00X77HBJG