Nice. If only I could afford it. It still wouldn’t solve Peplink’s problems with LTE-only bonding. If it’s a really hard thing to do, OK. Just don’t entice me to buy one saying that it will significantly improve bandwidth. It does say this. Peplink should have a big disclaimer about bonding LTE and it not improving performance. Peplink support was not successful at all. As you are aware, I am less interested in reliability of bonding and more interested in throughput. Oh well. Wishful thinking.
Hello @Neziak & @joelbean,
With the Cat-18 Chipsets, you need to have four (4) antenna connections, so having enough real estate space to fit these onto the connector plate is a challenge with the MAX Transit range, so you are unlikely to see a Cat-18 DUO.
What you may find as a suitable alternative are the MAX Transit DUO Cat-12 model. Talk with you local Peplink Partner about the suitability of these if you want the dual modem in the compact MAX Transit form factor, otherwise as @MartinLangmaid has mentioned the new MBX HD2 with Cat-18 will be the suitable alternative for the MAX Transit DUO going forward.
Maybe the Balance 20X (BPL-021X-LTE-E-T-PRM) with CAT18 added modem module (EXM -MINI-1GLTE-G)?
Internally it has a CAT4 modem, which is fine for a single band which you can fuse with the CAT18 modem which has lot’s of CA on several bands anyway.
Pricing is a lot more doable than the HD2 MBX, not much more than the Transit CAT18 Single PrimeCare.
Keep in mind that using the same band from the same provider twice in a SpeedFusion tunnel will rarely work well, unless you can receive several LTE masts/serving cells with good external antenna’s.
Demand is very high and they sell out immediately. This should ease up the first week of April but I recommend everyone to get their order in now from your reseller so you can get one from the next batch.
Hello @TheMissingLink,
We recently started acquiring these (and similar) antennas from Toaglass to supplement/replace the antennas that previously got supplied
We are looking to field-test these models soon also:
So far in the field test we have done, they have been excellent, and we have deployed them with a few new customer systems even though those customers only have Cat-18 chipsets (still LTE 4G).
Happy to Help,
Marcus