Initial thoughts, pretty good overall. Have lower throughput bands available in my area, so I don't get a great sense of it's full potential. That said, it did improve signal strength, and throughput. The signal strength jumped from about 50% to 65-70% with SINR 9-10, so it almost doubled along with a doubling of download to 100mpbs, and quadrupled my upload to 20mbps. So again, not great, but much better than I was getting. Overall, device appears to be well made. A little concerned with the plastic cover, well made but appears thin and could break if not careful with it, and wondering how it will do exposed to sun, UV and elements over time. The mounting plates work well. The blind search is a really great feature, gave me a good idea of who has what coverage in the area. Unfortunately outside of the signal strength, doesn't give you any additional data on what bands, and the actual signal metrics. The setup is easy, the routing options are fairly simple, and I think they pretty much assume that you will have another downstream router and AP providing access. Had an existing TMO G4SE and it pretty much turns it into a brick. WH site shows hookup to it, but I found that for this model at least it appears useless. The TMO router basically assumes cellular upstream and getting default route settings from. You aren't able to change this models IP settings, you can only change the WiFi with their app. Called TMO support and they said they can't even change them. So even if you put Elsys into bridge mode, pretty useless because if you access the TMO via WiFi you don't get the DNS and Default Route in DHCP that will send upstream to Elsys. So maybe there is another way to configure this with that TMO router, but spent way too much time playing with to see if I could back door. Basically had to put in another router. Way better option, but wish I knew before I added would have saved a lot of time. So in generally, good solution, although I would say on the higher end in price based on available alternatives, but so far I'm happy with it. The device has 2 slots for SIM cards, wondering how advanced the device is. There is literally no documentation other than a very simple Quick Start guide. If this device can support 2 simultaneous carriers, and inverse multiple for higher bandwidth - well that would be amazing. Haven't tried, but good to get some more documentation on this and might be something to try out. So overall, good UE - would be nice to see some more RAN data and QoS statistics, and a way to see those metrics in the Elsys UI. One last note, there is no data on grounding, and if the POE accessory is grounding or not for Ethernet cable, and no easily visible grounding plate or wire for the router itself other than the mounting plate, and who knows if that's grounded.
