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Check signal quality, not just bars, from likely mounting points. Compare carriers where possible and pay attention to the practical path of the coaxial cable back to the router, because a brilliant signal location can be undermined by a long or lossy cable run.\n\nComset\u2019s cellular-tower and signal-testing guidance is useful here because good antenna placement is part radio planning and part common sense. 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Routers and phones may support different bands, antenna arrangements and carrier features, and good-looking signal strength does not guarantee good quality, low interference or adequate upload performance. That is why more meaningful figures such as RSRP, RSRQ and SINR are often used when testing router performance.\n\nComset normally treats a phone as a clue, not as the final authority. 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Repeat tests at similar times and allow the modem to settle after each change. The nearest tower may be blocked, congested or not carry the required carrier bands, while a more distant tower may provide a cleaner path.\n\nWhere the router supports band or cell information, use it to confirm that a direction change actually selected a different service. Do not optimise only for download speed; check upload, stability and performance over time. 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They do not show interference, noise, cell congestion, band, tower selection or whether the connection is using a useful MIMO path.\n\nTwo sites can show the same number of bars but have very different stability and throughput. Use numerical readings such as RSRP, RSRQ and SINR, note the serving band and cell, and run repeatable latency, upload and download tests. 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RSRQ combines signal and interference effects to describe quality, while SINR compares the wanted signal with interference and noise. Together they provide a much better picture than bars alone.\n\nA strong RSRP with poor SINR can indicate interference or congestion, so a higher-gain antenna may not fix the problem. A weaker but cleaner signal may deliver better performance. 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