Before I start tinkering with the settings I want to ask if it is reasonable that I can actually get better performance than the algorithms that automatically set these things... I trust that Mikrotok knows better than I.

Hehe those are some good pointers. I just so happen to know a few AT command from working with a Teltonika modem.
I live right next to a cell tower in a small costal town. It will be very interesting to see what happens to performance when the tourists season starts.

My phone has spoiled me with it's ease of use

I was too fast to celebrate. The signal quality is back down. I read some other guy on the forum had to force his router to use a specific cell tower, so I'm gonna read the docs on that.

Thanks for your time jaclaz. I'm gonna look like a total idiot now, but I spent an hour last night testing measuring, staring at the router.This morning I just PICKED IT UP, rotated it 90, put back down exactly in the same place, an voilat, all LTE signal indicators became perfect. A wave of green b...

The device arrived, yey! But somethings is wrong. The LTE speeds on the LTE18 AX is much slower than on my phone. Tested with two different SIM cards on speedtest.net. The phone easily does 162 Mbps DL, but the router manages just 12 Mbps. The two devices are in the exact same location, and I use an...

So it would be a bad thing to plop an antenna like this on my roof, attach it to ANT2 and call it a day? https://www.pctel.com/antenna-product/wlq-4g-directional-cellular-antenna-2g-3g-4g-5g-nb-iot-m2m-smart-city-smart-metering-sma/ Because the receiver hardware expects a certain signal from the bui...

When connecting an external LTE antenna to Chateau LTE18 ax, does it make a difference if I connect it to ANT2 or ANT3? Don't know the meaning of "primary/diversity" as they talk about on confusedbird.com
High gain on ANT2/primary sounds like more-better

guilty as charged. I assumed the wiring was the same

Looking at this open router, it looks like the two ports are connected to some PCB traces that connect to a horizontally and a vertically oriented antenna inside the enclosure. **update** I deleted the photo to avoid confusion for future readers. See posts below. I am wondering if it makes any diffe...

I went for the Chateau LTE18 ax. A setup with LTE modem dish + router + accesspoint is complete overkill for my needs, however much I would love to do it. But I have a month to tinker and play with the settings. After checking out the mikrotik youtube channel I got some inspirations. Could be fun to...

Ah but I don't want to get a chinese brand I'm comfortable with the bash terminal so maybe my learning curve won't be too steep.
I might be my own worst enemy here.

Let me explain my motivations. I want to support a "local" brand (Teltonika was my only alternative) and I need an LTE modem + router + wifi within 30 days. I can live with any second hand router to begin width, so my main focus is the modem. I have a cell tower within 200 meters of the ho...

TL:DR are the LTE routers appropriate for home users? Hi, first off sorry if this should not be in the RouterOS section but I didn't "Articles for beginners" was right either. Yesterday I didn't know the company Mikrotik existed but today I want to buy half the hardware I see. I want to ge...